diazrosa:

i do not know a SINGLE person, not even out of my friends, not even out of the most woke people on this damn site, that only likes unproblematic things. every single one of us likes something that’s fucking garbage. so some of y’all can climb down off your high horses and stop competing for the “least problematic” award honest to god.

But more importantly… it’s fine to like problematic things with a full understanding of why they’re problematic. You will miss a lot of beauty and value in the world and in history if you wholly condemn every work, person, or movement that has problematic aspects. Colloquially, this is known as “throwing out the baby with the bathwater.” If “wokeness” is equated with allowing into one’s world only those things that are wholly pure (by the contingent, surely limited standard of a particular political sect in 2018), then the most “woke” person will have a very restricted, impoverished experience of the world.

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