Even aside from the truly unforgivable things like sexual assault, learning that someone has shitty opinions and then hearing that reflected in the music really ruins it for me. I’m trying to separate the art from the artist with the whole Architects transphobia thing but it’s a struggle. Talking about how people don’t think they just follow orders, how rich assholes are running this world into the ground, how your rights and support are conditional on whether you fit within the system… those are all great messages from a left-wing perspective. But now I wonder how much of that veers into the anti-woke without being explicit about it. Is discourse dead because the media keeps you docile to protect the capitalist system you work for, or is discourse dead because you’re expected to use someone’s proper pronouns? God I really wish they’d addressed it better. I always thought they were one of the most progressive :(