A trillionair, yet his name does not appear on a single school, university, library, museum wing, hospital, stadium, arena, airport, or endowed chairs. What a colossal waste of a human lifetime.
The Neil Gaiman example later in this thread is absolutely evergreen because he's such a perfect case study for "terrible people can make very good and very progressive, empathetic pieces of art". The sooner we stop conflating someone's morality with their work the better.
You see how much damage tumblr did to people's brain because they really don't understand that people can be mean/awful people and STILL be good at their work field lmao Just because you dislike a person, famous or not, that doesn't mean the person is bad at their job