the reason people actually get upset about their favorite artist being an asshole is that resonate with the shape of a creator's mind when you appreciate their work and then bam it turns out that that person wasnt who you thought they were and its both betrayal and revulsion
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sometimes it happens in that direction. but it all depends on how much emotional weight the person assigns to the belief vs the artist/etc. usually once a belief is strong enough that the person sorts ingroup/outgroup by it, it's relatively impervious to reweighting
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this whole thread reminds me of this Scott essay actually:https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/ …
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i humanize people whose beliefs i abhor
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today's culture sets a high bar for "not a monster", since it seems to require 100% agreement on all moral questions and many seemingly amoral ones.
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maybe part of the explanation is that you don't get social reward for seeing the good in a monster and bringing them into the fold, you only get social reward for expelling them and purifying your scene
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