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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8580169" data-attributes="member: 19857">One thing tho is that once you know about their behavior/beliefs it bleeds into enjoyment of their work.  Cosby's stand up work especially hits hard when you realize what a misogynistic undercurrent it has and what it means given what we know about him now.But for me the consumption of work by a creator when I know they're a bigot/Nazi/rapist/etc. is part of me being careful about what I consume in media.  Most folks avoid eating poison, but don't think twice about consuming media that might be "poisonous" to their minds. We pick up things subconsciously from the media we consume and knowing that a creator was, say, a Nazi symp, helps to be on guard against consuming something poisonous from his works.  I always try to read critically these days anyway, but the extra background helps to understand what you're reading.According to Shannon Appelcline over at RPG.net Barker's pseudonymous novel has been used as neo-Nazi indoctrination material and was published by the same publisher as the Turner Diaries.  Appelcline's article says everything I've been trying to articulate about this idea better than I'm able to so I'm going to drop a link to it here - I think Shannon is right about all of this.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons63.phtml[/URL]</blockquote>