Double standards?

Someone brought up Eric Clapton as a case of a non-neofolk musician that gets away with a lot in terms of racism. No one in their right mind would hold his statements against his collaborators, but if you try to hold him accountable, you get silenced with "don't be PC" or "he's a bluesman". I think the same double standards apply to many other non-neofolk artists. I'll only name two that really make me uncomfortable, even though (or because) I really care for their music.
- Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke. A great musician and a world-class twat. Like Douglas P., he collects Nazi memorabilia, but in Coleman's case it is seen as a harmless hobby. Worse, he hasn't fully explained or recanted some horrible things he said in the early eighties, like "Hitler was misunderstood about the gypsies" or "we should put gay and black musicians in the gas chambers". Only something like, "look, he was stoned" from his band members. Yes, I know that he has this jester persona and he's friends with Dave Grohl (now), but still. Let's face it, if, say, Patrick Leagas had said things only half as bad, he'd still be in trouble with the law. Instead, Jaz Coleman gets made Knight of the Arts and Letters in France and conductor of the EU orchestra. I don't get it.
- The bands from the French postmetal scene, Alcest, Amesoeurs and Les Discrets. While Neige and Fursy Teyssier come across as thoroughly decent fellows, they have collaborated closely and repeatedly with people like Drudhk and Peste Noire, who make Boyd Rice and friends look like the Anti Defamation League. From what little I know, Neige or Teyssier haven't explicitly distanced themselves yet. All I see is lame defenses from fans, such as "It's a small scene, they can't do otherwise" or "they come from black metal, some poses and imagery are just part of the game". Sorry, but if that's not good enough for neofolk, then it surely isn't good enough for black metal, postmetal, shoegaze or whatever you call it.

I don't mean that neofolk should be cut some slack. Quite the opposite, I feel that the level of awareness expressed here should be adopted for other kinds of music too.