iconoclast63

iconoclast63 t1_j39ek3n wrote

Whatever makes you feel like a better person. I think life is way too short to eliminate the things that make me happy because I disagree with the artist. This notion that everyone who disagrees with you is despicable and worthy of cancellation will be the death of our culture.

The purpose of laws protecting free speech is specifically to protect the speech that offends you. To listen to many people these days this is no longer a value worth defending. That's very sad and will spell doom for our future.

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iconoclast63 t1_j39cc9o wrote

Many great artists from history were, in some ways, despicable humans. Ernest Hemingway was a cross dressing wife beater. Stephen Tyler, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley married/banged teenaged girls. Matthew Broderick and Laura Bush killed people in car accidents and god knows MANY of the biggest movers and shakers from the early 20th century were well known antiSemites, from Henry Ford to Charles Lindbergh.

Art is art and, as far as I'm concerned, you enjoy it or you don't. You can separate the art from the artist.

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iconoclast63 t1_iuji68c wrote

I can only speak for myself but when I was in the military my job required a Top Secret SI security clearance. When my enlistment was ending I was approached by the major govt. agencies, CIA/NSA as well as some private contractors to recruit me. So that's one way. Another is off college campuses.

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