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If you’re not okay with the existence of art that challenges you someway, you’re not a “lover of the arts”, especially not a transgressive and avant-guarde one at that.
The issue isn’t disliking it, no one is in the wrong for having personal taste. The problem is calling for it to be off the shelves, it’s wanting to erase its presence from the internet, it’s demonizing the group of people who make it, it’s thinking that there’s “good” art and “degenerate” art, it’s limiting how a writer is “allowed” to write certain topics (and to write OF certain topics), it’s wanting artists to be a moral standard and not expressive individuals.
Again, it’s fine to think that any kind of art is flawed. It’s fine to discuss it, criticize it, and even hate the sight of it. However, once this hatred seeps into wanting it completely banned, you’ve stopped “looking out” for the arts. You’re actively stifling them.
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