What if it’s just a good joke from early in his career which resonates with people, and reposting some of his better work doesn’t actually mean you’re writing history
The problem comes in that there’s no clean way to promote a tainted subject. We aren’t out here talking about the (VERY) minor positive qualities in Hitler’s pre-politics paintings, or whether Ronald Reagan had decent acting chops.
There are plenty of other, less-massively-problematic comedians, artists, politicians, actors, and other public figures to promote and laud the work of that we really can just set aside the possibly decent contributions of otherwise bad people. It just doesn’t matter enough. Find someone cool who did a good thing and talk about that instead.
Is it promoting someone to laugh at an old joke? I don’t think anyone is saying this makes Dave chappel good?
I happen to be familiar with chappels work but let’s say I wasn’t. Am I supposed to get this random tweets sources before I laugh to check if I’m allowed to enjoy this artist?
What if it’s just a good joke from early in his career which resonates with people, and reposting some of his better work doesn’t actually mean you’re writing history
It’s advertising him, and why would you want to do that?
Assume I didn’t know who Chappel was. How am supposed to know I’m not allowed to like this tweet?
Liking his tweet is one thing, reposting it is endorsing it, and it’s generally a god idea to check who someone is before endorsing them
It’s still a good joke and it’s still a poignant message. It doesn’t become not those because Chapelle sucks.
If you attribute it to him, yes it does.
This is a stupid way to live
The problem comes in that there’s no clean way to promote a tainted subject. We aren’t out here talking about the (VERY) minor positive qualities in Hitler’s pre-politics paintings, or whether Ronald Reagan had decent acting chops.
There are plenty of other, less-massively-problematic comedians, artists, politicians, actors, and other public figures to promote and laud the work of that we really can just set aside the possibly decent contributions of otherwise bad people. It just doesn’t matter enough. Find someone cool who did a good thing and talk about that instead.
Is it promoting someone to laugh at an old joke? I don’t think anyone is saying this makes Dave chappel good?
I happen to be familiar with chappels work but let’s say I wasn’t. Am I supposed to get this random tweets sources before I laugh to check if I’m allowed to enjoy this artist?
The net negative reaction my comment received suggests I’m not well-placed to respond to your question.
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Personally, I think ignoring that sort of complexity leaves you with a shallower understanding of the subject matter.
I wouldn’t say I’m ignoring it, but that I’m usually choosing not to publicly engage with it.
Hmm, that is fair