>>149459263 (OP)>Never felt this with other cancelled authors. How do you get past it?I saw a video where a journalist walked around the line for a Chris Brown concert asking people what their thoughts were over the abuse he committed. They knew about the main abuse stuff (Rihanna) but didn't know about some other allegations. And even then every one of them justified it (it was a long time ago, people change etc) whilst not really caring.
This stuff is NEVER about what someone actually DID and 100% about the narrative around that person. Some people in Hollywood are scumbags and still get work whilst others have been cancelled and chased out. Some celebrities have their past constantly scrutinised while plenty have their past ignored. All those classic books you read at school, how many of them were written by awful people? Quite a few.
To a certain extent this feeling you and others have is rather performative, it is performative because it is hypocritical because deep down there are people you like now who are absolute scumbags that you support even when you know you shouldn't or perhaps you're just ignorant of what they have done.
Appreciate people for the things they have done. Never hero worship people themselves because they will always disappoint you. And yeah, you can still enjoy work. But yeah that work does have parts of the author in it as well. No one is perfect. If you want to live by your principles you'll never be able to consume anything, whether fiction or food because you'll never know the true source was free of issues unless you make it all yourself.
