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Originally Posted by Cecily
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Bullshit I can't. If you have someone with a deplorable fucking idea, it discredits anything else they might have contributed to society by association.
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Really? Disney was an anti-semite; does that discredit Lady and the Tramp and Bambi by association? Rudyard Kipling was a deplorable racist, but does that make the Jungle Book a bad story?
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Now don't get me wrong, I have ZERO tolerance for discrimination against transgender people (or the rest of the LGBT community), and I very strongly disagree with any feminist theorist who uses their position to preach bigotry.
But c'mon, people are complicated, and you have to consider their backgrounds. Rudyard Kipling was shaped by imperial England, he wasn't just a racist in a vacuum. Those crazy feminists who hate on transgender people probably had some horrible stuff done to them by men. Even Hitler had his art shat on by some Jewish art school people.
Does that excuse the Holocaust, or transphobia, or Kipling's racism? Of course not. But you can't just categorically deny those people's contributions because they were flawed. EVERYONE is flawed in some way, and there'd be no great works of art or literature if we threw out the ones made by flawed individuals
... well, except maybe Hitler; not sure he really contributed anything in the first place that can be discredited.