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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:21:15 PDT
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- From: David Malbuff <SPGDAM@UCCVMA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Lenster and the Big Guy
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:05:53 EST
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- >>It seems kinda strange that if it were album covers showing disrepect of
- >>Homosexuals or minorities.....etc, there would be an uproar and boycotts
- >>but i guess God is fair game, I don't want to start a disscussion on
- >>religion I know most of you don't believe, but maybe one day you'll "see
- >>the light".................L.W.
- >
- >Well, Len, I think the reasoning is that God can pretty well
- >take care of himself, and people dissing the Old Man are only
- >putting their own eternal life in jeopardy. On the other hand,
- >when a society turns against its minorities, things can get
- >awfully tough for those folks. I trust I won't have to make
- >a list of examples (and one need not restrict oneself to the
- >states in this).
- >
-
- Leonard has made a good point here, and I don't think Tim's answer really
- addresses it.
-
- What Leonard's post has touched on is the arrogant hypocrisy that afflicts
- the 'politically-correct' left. Recall when Jesse Helms expressed outrage at
- the sculptor Andres Serrano's depiction of a crucifix in a jar of urine
- (entitled "Piss Christ"). Though Helms was trying to stop federal money from
- financing such art (and Lord knows, the federal-funding thread has been
- frazzled to death here already!), his true motive was seen, and rightly so IMO,
- as censorship. And everyone in the arts and music community, and all the PC
- activists and noisemakers, rose to defend Serrano and his art. No problem.
-
- But suppose another artist depicted a photo, drawing, or sculpture of, say,
- Malcolm X in a jar of urine, with a nice, inoffensive title like "Piss
- Malcolm"? Would those who condemned Helms now rise up in support of this
- artist and his work? Ha, ha, ha. Hell, no, they wouldn't.
-
- That's where the argument lies here. There seems to be general agreement in
- the arts community that you can attack some people's icons, but not others'.
- The only word that describes that attitude is hypocrisy.
-
- So if there's room for Danzig (or Serrano, for that matter) in your world,
- is there room for Skrewdriver, too?
-
-
- David
-