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What do You do When Your Favorite Creators Support Trump?
The struggle between separating art from politics.
The other day, I read an article here on Medium by someone I’ve been following for a while.
When I finished reading it, I opened this person’s profile page on another tab and clicked the Twitter icon to check out their Twitter.
I immediately followed this person, but within the first few tweets and retweets on their timeline, I realized they were a Trump advocate. And they weren’t afraid to show it.
Without thinking twice about it, I unfollowed them and exited the tab. I was back on their story.
It was a great piece! There was some helpful advice, and I got a lot of value from it. But now I had this new information, and I didn’t know if I wanted to clap for it or not.
It’s one thing to unfollow someone on Twitter, but Medium is different. I didn’t want to see the hate they were retweeting on my timeline, so it made sense to unfollow them.
But on Medium, they don’t cover politics. They write about personal development and give damn good advice.
But did I want to help someone who, based on one of their retweets, doesn’t support the LGBT…
