If your opinion of a work art changes after you find out which tools were used to make it, or who the artist is or what they’ve done, you’re no longer judging the art. You’re making a choice not to form your opinion based on the work itself, but rather on something else.
"Can you separate the art from the artist" is a question that has no definitive answer, with predominant sentiment fluctuating with other political preferences over time. But John Gruber framing it as "a choice" is something I really like.
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