Personally, I don’t want to associate with him because of his catastrophic levels of racism, mostly because there is better, clearer proof of it.
In 1976 Bowie stated in a Playboy interview that, “Britain is ready for a fascist leader… I think Britain could benefit from a fascist leader. After all, fascism is really nationalism… I believe very strongly in fascism, people have always responded with greater efficiency under a regimental leadership…Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars…You’ve got to have an extreme right front come up and sweep everything off its feet and tidy everything up.”
He kind of took it back later but it wasn’t “I apologise I was wrong” type, it was more of a “I was in love with magic of nazism before but now I don’t love it anymore”, which is one ukulele away from the worst apology ever












https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU
This video exactly explains the thing you’re missing about it