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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      3. Jules Verne was a French nationalist & thus like many others of his sort he accepted the accusations against Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer framed for treason in an anti-Semitic plot.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      4. As it happens, Jules Verne's son Michel studied the case and came to believe, rightly, that Dreyfus was framed. Michel argued passionately with his father about the case, to little avail.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      5. On a conscious, political level, Verne always remained an anti-Dreyfusard. But in 1902 he wrote a novel called Les Frères Kip (The Kip Brothers) which told a very different tale.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      6. The Kip Brothers tells the story of two siblings framed for the murder of a ship captain. It's a story of systematic injustice, the ways the powers that be can conspire to crush the innocent. It's impossible not to see it as an allegory for the Dreyfus case.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      7. On a conscious level, Verne would always insist that Dreyfus was guilty. But The Kip Brothers shows that he was listening to the arguments of his son Michel on the massive evidence of a framing.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      8. The Kip Brothers is Verne grappling with in art what he couldn't admit politically: that high powers could frame the innocent, that Dreyfus was innocent.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      9. I would not make any great claims for Verne nor for The Kip Brothers (a simple adventure story, a minor work of a minor author). But even Verne shows how complicated the relationship between explicit ideology & art is.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      10. D.H. Lawrence: "Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it." Good advice since Lawrence himself was a proto-fascist dingbat.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      11. Artists, like almost everyone else, have political views but to the extent their art is complex those views don't map perfectly with the ideology. Often enough, as with Verne, art is a way of exploring possibilities & problems the ideology doesn't allow for.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      12. It's perfectly natural to be interested in an artist's life & explicit views, but that's never quite the same as encountering the art, which has a meaning that includes conscious intent but also goes beyond conscious intent.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

      13. All of which is to say that if Kanye's music is meaningful to you, then you should continue to find meaning in it, whether he's dumping on George W. Bush or (ugh) praising Trump. Because the tale & the teller are separate.

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018

          14. The interesting flip side of this is that you can't value an artist just for having your politics. I mean Jack Kirby, from my point of view, had great politics: social democrat, anti-fascist, anti-racist. But those views aren't the sum of his art either.

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        2. Noah Mullins‏ @NoahMullins 26 Apr 2018
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          This is how I can enjoy Wagner.

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        3. asCAgoes‏ @fcpcolo 26 Apr 2018
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          And Louis ck

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        1. Theolinda Bonner‏ @MZGunter 26 Apr 2018
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          Nope. This totally ignores hip hop’s history as a political messaging tool against state violence, racism and disenfranchisement. You can’t ignore the politics of its artists. Especially when they specifically invoke them in their songs as West has.

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        2. Angus Rockford‏ @AngusRockford 26 Apr 2018
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          Off the top of my head, I really can't think of a single human being, from ancient times to today, in any given field of endeavor, who is as godawful stupid, ignorant, classless and politically gross as Kanye but who people imagine has a lot of talent. Help me here.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Apr 2018
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          Ezra Pound

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        1. LCPS AP CRT Teacher of the Year‏ @tinioril 26 Apr 2018
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          He's no Varg Vikernes, I'll keep listening to his stuff.

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        1. kay martinez‏ @conapapia 26 Apr 2018
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          Am I mistaken (serious question): I thought you took the opposite position on the Woody Allen issue.

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