Painting of Cops as Pigs Hung Proudly in US Capitol

Well, I'm honestly not sure how things work there, and the rules...but he is on record saying he is allowed to make such a decision , and he did just that...so he has to have this ability. He did admit that Mr Lacy also has the ability to put it back up if he wishes, and he can take it down again.

 

Too, these 'staunch defenders of free speech' recently pulled two works of art, To Kill A Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from a public school in Virginia. because "controversial"

 

Just to stir the pot, Duncan Hunter should hang a painting of the Ten Commandments in its place.

 

We'd certainly hear all the limitations of "free speech" from the same crowd defending the smearing, and dehumanization of police if he did that.

 

THE DOME AT THE HEART OF AMERICA
The dome of the Capitol ices this connection. Domes have been called the perfect architectural shape: the circle, symbol of the universe, executed in three dimensions.

In religious architecture domes proclaim the glory of God. The word dome comes from Latin domus, a house, via Italian duomo, a house of God, that is a church (from kirk, meaning ‘circle&#8217. The temple is a “house of the holy”. Temple is also a word for the flat part on either side of the human head, called a dome in slang, above and beyond the eye.

The oculus or eye of the dome is considered the Gateway of the Sun. From this gateway at the top of the dome rises the World Axis, the link between heaven and earth. Domes, therefore, are the threshold or gateway of the spiritual world.

Designed in 1854 by Philadelphia architect Thomas Walter, the cast-iron U.S. Capitol dome (its second) features stunning columns, pilasters, windows crowned by a statue of the goddess Freedom. When funds ran low during the Civil War Abraham Lincoln encouraged continuing the controversial construction of the New Dome as a symbol of unity.
http://www.williamhenry.net/2009/01/the-u-s-capitol-and-the-temple-in-man/

The building itself can be considered a religious symbol.

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Some aren't so keen on freedoms. So they project their own shortcomings onto everyone around them.

 

Yes, that was Duncan Hunter, bravo for him

 

A painting is an inanimate object, it possesses no freedoms. No one said the Human who painted it couldn't paint such terrible art.

 

So Duncan is hoping this will turn into some sort of schoolyard game over the fact that the painting hurt his feelings.

I've been noticing this more and more just since Trump's victory. There's a new conservative PC movement in which conservatives will attempt to silence anything that offends their delicate emotions. Duncan is just one more example of this.

 

You could call it hurt feelings I suppose. I'll think of it as Duncan is showing us that many of us are not alone, and that decency and common sense are not dead.

Lets chat about this over an episode of Dukes of Hazard.....

 

It's shown that many of you are not alone in having your poor little feelings hurt, after the nation has listened to 8 years of conservatives mocking liberals for PC hurt feelings BS.

When did I say I approved of Liberal PC policies? I liked watching the Dukes of Hazard, too, you know.

 

You are off the mark with your rant on "poor little feelings". It's a bit more than feelings to have a work of "art" hanging in the capitol which reinforced a stereotype on our Law Enforcement.

Ok fair enough Cooter.

 

So what is it then? What other reason is there to remove the art besides it hurting someone's feelings because it's controversial and offensive?

 

It dehumanizes and plays on Stereotypes of Police. It may be appropriate for a corner art gallery or something....but not in our nations capitol. That makes it look Government approved.

 

You obviously missed the conversation and the point you and I butted in on.

 

That could fall under the umbrella of vandalism. Decency and common sense is now vandalism to the right. Wow, who'd a thunk.

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Similar to a confederate flag used as some sort of motivation?
Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot.
Be for or against some expression all the time. Don't pick and choose, makes one hypocritical.

 

No, I didn't miss anything.
The poster you replied to was making a point that someone has a right to express themselves, and that he would back this expression even if in disagreement with the message.

To which you took a jab at others as not supporting expression.

And then I reminded you that no one stopped the "artists" expression at all. Whether said piece of art can hang somewhere or not, has little do do with the artists right to paint it.

 

No, it cannot fall under Vandalism at all unless the painting was abused. try again?

Was the Confederate flag in the Nations capitol?

 

It makes it look no more gov't approved then the dumb arse who said it's obamas fault for putting it there and not taking it down.

 

I don't recall someone saying Obama put it there, but perhaps someone did.

However he certainly could have said take it down if he didn't approve of it's message. I bet if that same painting had all the crowd depicted as Apes, he would have sniffed it out and pulled it.


Who am I kidding...that "art" wouldn't have gotten there in the first place.

 

State capitols across some of the south.
What difference does it make?

 

We live in a world of headlines. many of the right wingers foaming at the mouth on here didn't read, as is usual for them. The right wing outrage machine continues to function because of their ignorance.

 

Oh the actual confederate states you mean, without wanting to say it?

It answers that dumb question for you....

 

Yes, because as so often happens, the other poster assumes everyone is like him and everyone will object to things they don't like. Simply not true. Or has he said, he may object, but they have a right to express without snowflakes getting all upset.
And it wasn't a jab, the other poster does not support expression. That was obvious. I think you also reject expression. You supported the unauthorized removal of the painting.
Of course, I'm assuming it was authorized to hang there.

 

There's the objection to freedom you think everyone will object to. Projecting your idealogy on all others.

 

Thanks for proving my point. The outrage you the right has is dumb.