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And that kind of knee-jerk avoidance of anything uncomfortable is at the core of reactionary thinking. If it makes you uncomfortable to be near something a child molester has touched, will you abandon their victims? The home they lived in? The clothes which they owned once but that others could use? The sidewalk they walked along to get to the scene of their crimes? Shall we all expel the things that make us uncomfortable? Some people are made uncomfortable by foreigners, and people who look different. Don't tell me 'but that's different.' It's not. It's the same reactionary childishness, and it might make you uncomfortable to acknowledge it, but that's why we can't use discomfort as a measure.
First off, Nice strawman by the way.
Second, It is FAR from the same thing. I'm not uncomfortable being near something some awful person have been near. People have walked on the street I walk on, for several hundreds of years. I have no doubt some truly terrible people have traversed that road.
But I don't want their artwork at display in my house. What I put on display in my house, is a reflection of me and my taste. Which is why I don't want to have such artwork from such a person.
If you're fine with it, good for you. I have not once said it would be wrong. I've not once said no one can or should have such things. Only that I personally, wouldn't want to.
You not being able to differentiate what people are comfortable with in their own home, and what they tolerate in public, is the centerpiece of your argument. Not a particularly strong foundation since it's based on nothing but your own misconception
Being uncomfortable with it in your own home is only different in that you actually have some control over what is displayed in your own home, but the irrational judgement of the art based on the non-artistic conduct of the artist exists regardless of whether you have the power to force your judgement onto others. It all still applies. There is an implied moral superiority in the statement of 'You do you, but I would never,' in the same vein as someone who makes a point to say to gay people, 'You do you, but I would never.' Saying 'I didn't say you couldn't do it' is the same 'I'm not saying anything like that. I'm just asking questions,' excuse people use to get away with making all sorts of implications that they know they can't really justify.