Posted on 11/23/2024 2:05:11 PM PST by DFG
An art exhibit currently on display at East Tennessee State University features works that focus on “socially and politically engaged” themes, with many depicting extreme left-wing perspectives.
The Fletcher Exhibit, held in remembrance of Fletcher Dyer, a former student who passed away in 2009, invites artists worldwide to submit pieces that align with its global issues theme and is hosted at the ETSU Reece Museum.
Photographs of various art pieces obtained by Campus Reform display images of President-elect Donald Trump alongside swastikas, Hitler, and what appears to be Ku Klux Klan hoods.
One image features House Speaker Mike Johnson, with swastikas transforming into Christian crosses in its background. Another collage combines photos of Trump and various modern conservative figures with images of Hitler, swastikas, KKK members, and antisemitic slogans, including “Jews will not replace us.”
Other works include a painting of Trump’s former Senior Advisor Stephen Miller driving a “Project 2025” truck, accompanied by three members of the KKK. In another piece, an American flag is distorted to take the shape of a KKK hood.
Vice President of ETSU’s Turning Point USA chapter, Connor Vincent told Campus Reform the art featured in the exhibit was “disturbing” and is responsible for “promoting hate.”
Despite controversial views on Trump, Vincent argued that “it is wrong to display anyone as a Nazi or compare them to Hitler when they are far from it,” he said. Vincent said he finds it “disgusting” to see imagery “comparing the cross, which many people on campus hold very dearly to their way of life, to a swastika or symbol of hate.”
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That's not anything I would call art.
“ I’ll tell you what I have seen and I could go out tonight and find them and that’s satanist’s gathered in the woods mainly on hunting leases or what we call pipelines. They gather with their robes and hoods on and chant and hold hands while they go around a fire.”
It sure would be a shame if some enterprising individuals dealt with them way out there in the woods.
Not that I’d ever advocate anything like that. That would be very, very bad.
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Colleges everywhere are very questionable. It will be interesting to see the changes over the next few decades. Between low employment opportunities and the riots, and high tuitions. I know high school graduates rethinking attending colleges.
What say ye, Tennesse state government who funds ETSU?
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To be more accurate, the swastikas should have morphed into peace signs or the communist hammer and sickle.
(I remember a poster that was popular in conservative circles back in the seventies: it showed the peace doves morphing into the hammer and sickle to show that the so-called “peace movement” was nothing more than a communist front.)
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