Do you think brilliance and bigotry are exclusive?

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I would like to think that brilliance and bigotry are exclusive. But sadly this is not the case. Walt Disney was a brilliant animator (this is doubtless) he was also an anti-semitic tool of the media monopoly. Orson Scott Card's Ender series is brilliant beyond my telling. Yet, the man is a rampant homophobe. George Balanchine is great ballet choreographer is misogynistic in terms and leading to anorexia creating. The deal with bigots (I've found) is to appreciate their work, honor them, but never- if you can help it- give them money. I break this rule in terms of Balanchine and Disney, because you can't often find their work for free. Still, I try to borrow their work from the library. I do this in entirely for Card. My best girlfriend says that brilliance and bigotry are exclusive. That brilliant people can only be clever, obviously we disagree. What say you, Mylotters?