[purple, happy]
You know how sometimes you don’t want to keep consuming media after finding out who wrote it?

[blue, a finger raised]
Sure, people would say you’re having a hard time separating the art from the artist

[purple, distraught]
Well the other day I was reading this book called “Mein Kampf” which was alright, then I looked up the author’s bio on Wikipedia and… damn

[blue, blasé]
…

https://thebad.website/comic/advanced_media_literacy

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    7 days ago

    I’d be curious how they got the book in the first place because if I owned a used book store I’m not touching that without a very good reason. You can’t in good conscience sell it, because any private collector who wants it is 99.99999% of the time a terrible person and should be kicked out of the store; it’s probably not something a museum is interested in even as a donation; and destroying it feels a bit too… I don’t know, it wouldn’t be wrong to destroy it but the irony is too thick for me.

    • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I read a lot about nazis, occasionally I idly think “wouldn’t it be neat to own a Reich’s coin or maybe a book”. And then I think about it for 3 more seconds and go naaah