Steve harvey is a fucking piece of shit who hates atheist, is homophobic, encourages guys cheating, is sexist, advocates rape and thinks guys and girls can’t just be friends i am sure there is more than that but this is what i have found please feal free to tell me and i’ll add it

  • Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    That’s funny shit though, if you talk about how HP Sauce named his cat a hard R slur, that’s just good small talk.

    I’m only fighting you on this because I like to acknowledge the darker side of our cultural touchstones. For example I still listen to Thriller, but I never forget MJ might have fucked those kids. I mean, come on. It’s a bop.

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      9 months ago

      There’s a difference between acknowledging it and feeling like you should let everyone know any time it’s brought up.

      As a person involved in creative works, I don’t think this is healthy in the long run. If a fella was a bigot once, and you denounce them every time they’re brought up, that comes off as you saying they shouldn’t be allowed to do creative work because they were a bigot once.

      On a personal level, I don’t really have as much to fear from that because I’ve never been a hater (though I’ve certainly said things in the past that can be misconstrued.) But I work with teams. I have a concern that one day, one of my teammates on one of my favorite projects might get exposed for something I had no way of knowing, that might have only occured years before I met them, and then the reputation of that project is going to be forever tainted. That could be hundreds of hours of work and passion down the drain.

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        9 months ago

        I think I get that… I’ve had a few friends complain about how you can’t get the space jam album anymore because of some shit about one of the artists, or so the record stores have told them. I don’t remember all of it but some tracks at least we’re also ‘a bop’ like the other person said, but I guess MJ is bigger than a bunch of mixed artists with one(?) bad apple.

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        8 months ago

        This is just my personal version of “death of the artist”. You have to separate the art from the artist, but that doesn’t mean we give them a free pass imo

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          8 months ago

          I can respect that you don’t torch the art for the sins of the artist, but not everyone feels the same way. Remember the drama around Hogwarts Legacy?