I've never boycotted an artist because of non-artistic aspects of their lives/opinions/whatever in the sense that if I enjoy their works and later find out about said aspects, it doesn't eliminate my enjoyment of their works, nor affects the likelihood of my viewing/reading/whatever future works of theirs. However, I'm reasonably certain that knowledge of some aspects of an artist prior to encountering their work will put me off of going out of my way to experience said works. I don't view that so much as a boycott, in the traditional sense, but more that there are tons of authors/artists/directors/whatever putting out more stuff than I can read/view/whatever anyway, so why start out picking one that has some personal opinions/actions/etc that I disagree with?
To be fair though, artists that I come to dislike or disagree with usually put the things I dislike or disagree with into their art (and that's usually why I dislike or disagree with them), so it's not that much of an issue. I tend to avoid watching Michael Moore documentaries, because they are chock full of the very things I disagree with about his positions. Kinda can't avoid that. On the other hand, if Rachael Maddow were to write a sci-fi book, I wouldn't pick it up in preference to the dozens of other books in the same genre that I haven't read sitting on the shelf at the bookstore at the same time, but if someone handed me a copy and said it was a good book, I'd read it and not care that I disagree with virtually every political position she holds (and can't stand her constant smirking). Assuming the things about the artist that I dislike are not present in a given piece of work, I really don't care.
Edited, Jul 3rd 2014 1:16pm by gbaji
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