So here's the thing, a lot of the time when I hear this shit, the art itself is actively racist as well. JK Rowlings Goblins are direct Antiemetic stereotypes, Rudyar Kipling's "The gift" comes down to "Just take the present and stop bitching about Christians running everything". R Kelly has songs about seducing under aged girls. Cosby has an episode where he puts something special in his barbeque sauce that makes his wife and daughters horny. Woody Allen and Roman Polanski both have movies about relationships between young women/underaged women, and older men.

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I'm willing to separate the art from the artist, but most of the time the art is still fucking racist/sexist/whatever.

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Now, there's some good Cosby episodes, Chinatown and Bananas are both awesome movies, ""Trapped in the closet" is hilarious and musically sound. But typically when I hear "separate the artist" that means I'm going to have to wade through some offensive shit to dig up value.

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Why bother, why should I go out of my way to reward the art of the offensive when there's plenty of other art out there? What value is there to creating this separation in my mind when it mostly ends up meaning I'm going to have to go through some cringe shit anyway?