It also associates morality with the act of creating art. And like, no. Being creatively gifted talented says NOTHING about how morally correct someone is. We need to dismantle this nonsense once and for all. And we need to teach people that artists are complex human beings just like them.

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.