Painting of Cops as Pigs Hung Proudly in US Capitol

How is the painting racist? Bad mouthing cops isn't racist. Not cool, but not racist.
Oh, I don't view this as the gov't supporting it or endorsing it. So I guess that is only an opinion on your part.

 

In my opinion the painting portrays blacks as oppressed by cops. Therefore, it's racist. Government elected officials hung the painting. Therefore, government supports it.

 

Under the first amendment they have a right to post basically anything they want. Both you and I may not like it, but that's the way it is.

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I think the US Government supports the first amendment.

 

Hang a picture of President Obama getting his head sawed off by muslim Jihadists and you'll see the "government" change the First Amendment protection of free speech to "hate speech". I think we both know this painting is political propaganda.

 

Its racist on two levels.

For one, it propagates the myth that cops just going around shootings Blacks for no good reason.

Cops are nearly always White so what its saying is that when a White person sees a Black person they cant help but shoot them.

That is a racist attitude.

I'll use that same "logic" in a different example and you tell me if its racist a not:

Thieves are nearly always Black, therefore when a Black person sees something valuable they cant help but steal it.

See the racism now?

Its about drawing upon a bigoted confirmation bias in order to paint entire scores of people with a prejudice that has no basis in fact.

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For two, it propagates the myth that no Black person is ever in the wrong, ie all of the criminal circumstances surrounding a police shooting are somehow irrelevant if the criminal is Black.

This is racist because it basically says that a person can do no wrong because they're Black.

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This is racism, pure and simple, and when Trump is in office that painting is coming down and hopefully somebody has the right mind to destroy it in the process.

Because when the government displays something on government property then the government is endorsing it.

There is no way around this and we can easily put that to the test if we start talking about ...oh I don't know ...Nativity displays ...right?

Yea...

 

DOJ basically proved the entire Ferguson police force behaved like racist thugs.
Hence there is nothing wrong to depict the truth in a painting.

 

The DOJ proved that cops in Ferguson behaving like racist thugs. The painting is about Ferguson. And there are no white cops in that painting. So come again....

 

Indeed it is. But it's also is the truth. So now what? You wan't the government to ban art that depicts the truth?

 

The DOJ is corrupt. Michael Brown assaulted a store owner and a attacked a cop.

 

We disagree. What's the problem in Chicago? Sure isn't the cops.

 

No they didn't.

The only thing they "proved" is that an average amount of criminal activity for a city of that size was being committed and that most of it was being committed by Blacks ....because Blacks were most of the population.

The racist DOJ tried to use data to suit their agenda but it only fooled Democrats.

And none of this is relevant to the matter at hand which is a racist painting being endorsed by the government.

 

All it shows is another Liberal that makes things up and cant defend them. That's you.

Thanks for confirming that you cannot substantiate your false claims, I knew you couldn't.

Renders you and your entire bunch of fantasy responses meaningless..much like the recent election did.

 

Cops in Ferguson behaved racist and violated peoples rights. There is solid proof for it.

As for Chicago:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/doj-release-report-chicago-police-abuses-44752157
Report Says Chicago Police Violated Civil Rights for Years

 

The hell they did. They proved that the cops violated the rights of the black community for the sake to empty their pockets. Your opinion is unfounded.

 

are any of those painting hanging up in the capital building?
No ones is saying that kid shouldn't have drawn what he did he has every right as an American citizen to do so but that painting doesn't belong hanging up in the capital building and it was the violation of the rules for it to be

 

That the US government backed up Charlie Hebdo publishing anti-muslim art is indisputable.
All this shows is right wingers who want to ban art that they disprove off. So typical.

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Thats only according to the opinion of 1 whiner.

 

they backed up the right for Charlie Hebdo to publish what the hell ever he wanted to publish not because it was anti-muslim

 

Anti-muslim art was part of it. That is exceptionally obvious. Hence the US government backs up that stuff.

 

no they backed up the right to do so not the art its self
The first amendment was written precisely for unpopular controversial speech because speech that every one agrees with doesn't need protection

 

What does that matter, what don't you understand it violated the rules of the contest, if you enter a contest and you violate the rules should you friggin win? AND it violates the rules of the building.

What's escaping you here?

 

you been on these forums long enough to now liberals don't think rules should apply to them and only time rules need to be enforced is if they benefit from its enforcement

 

No that is not the way it works and no they don't have a right to hang basically anything they want in the capital building. There are suitibilty rules for what is allowed by the Capital building to be hung there and this painting violates that rule along with the rules of the contest. It has no business being there and must come down.

 

No wonder there is so much crime and disrespect for law and order in the black community when their leaders show no regard to rules and regulations that apply to them claiming some kind of right to disobey them.

THUS what is depicted in the painting....how ironic.

 

Precisely. Apparently there is something called The Architect of the Capital as a position of authority and he has recently ruled that the disgusting painting violates specific rules for what can or cannot be displayed in public areas of government buildings. It's just that when Obama and his leftists ran things he did not DARE do his job. But now that Trump and his Right of Center people are effectively running things -- or at least doing so at this level -- some people are DARING to do their jobs again.

 

Correction, the Obama race-agitating controlled DOJ ASSERTED that the entire Ferguson police force . . . etcetera and etcetera. Different administration CONTROL of the DOJ will -- gasp! -- 'discover' different things during the next four to eight years.