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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
It's interesting to hear about people's reluctance to read a writer they perceive to be fascistic. I personally love reading Ezra Pound's poetry and criticism despite his having made broadcasts in the middle of WWII praising Mussolini and Hitler and suggesting that someone create "a pogrom higher up." I also like T.S. Eliot despite the fact he was supposed to have been a rabid anti-Semite apart from his friendships with Groucho Marx and others. Wyndham Lewis, too, makes a favorable and energetic impression despite the fact he was insane and wrote a laudatory biography of Hitler (Kenneth Rexroth called him "the last uncivilized man since Wotan"). I enjoy music by Richard Strauss as well, despite his stint as Hitler's pet composer.
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Well, those are all dead now, so the "I don't want my money in that creator's pocket" line of thinking doesn't work.