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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Author or not, that seems to be standard treatment to people in general, in my experience. People don't like hearing views that are different from their own, period.
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I think it's more complicated than that.
There's a lot of people on here -- myself included -- who try to avoid finding out too much about authors because eventually the author is going to say something full of Fail (because that's what humans DO) and then it can sort of taint the reader's interaction with the text.
Look at Orson Scott Card. I enjoyed Ender's Game at the time, but now that I know his position on homosexuality, the book reads differently to me. That's just how FedEx arrows work, for better or worse. Or you have the Scott Adams / Dilbert guy writing stuff about how we shouldn't blame men for rape anymore than
we should blame lions for eating zebras or whatever because they can't help themselves and it's just... oooookay. Wish you hadn't shared that, to be honest.
If Pick-An-Author at random came out tomorrow saying "I think Hitler was right!!", a lot of people would have a hard time subsidizing their lifestyle and paying for their art which may or may not have been written to include those sentiments.
This is pretty standard fare. It's one of the reasons why a lot of authors use multiple personas -- one for promoting themselves as inoffensively as possible and one for just bopping around on the internet. And it's not excluded to authors -- MOST people would be called out for publicly saying they agree with Hitler. I see no reason to expect everyone to behave differently just because LE ARTISTE!!