[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Yes, sure, it’s all on a case-by-case basis. Agreed. It’s individual, and it depends on the artist and what he or she is saying and doing and espousing and the way these ideas are expressed, and even the historic context of the time they’ve said these things.
Let’s take Mel Gibson as an example. He is an extraordinary filmmaker. I consider APOCALYPTO one of the greatest films of the century, it’s among the best things I have ever seen. Totally daring, original, and powerful filmmaking… takes guts to even consider making such a movie, let alone pulling it off.
Yet Gibson has obviously has a lot of demons he’s grappling with, he’s done unpleasant anti-semitic rants, racist threats and rants against a former girlfriend, etc., so lots of stuff that is not just “problematic” but what I consider totally unacceptable behavior. However, that does not change that he is a great artist, a great filmmaker, and I find none of the sentiments from his tirades in his creative art. (Also, Gibson at least knows that he has these demons and actively tried to keep them in check, so that’s something that speaks for him.)