Posted on 07/04/2021 2:17:41 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The Statue of Liberty is a “symbol of hypocrisy or unfulfilled promises” the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott said in an essay published Saturday.
In his piece titled “Maybe it’s time to admit the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up,” the art and architecture critic wrote:
Try looking for Lady Liberty at an exhibition of Chicano graphic art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for example, where familiar images — flags, maps, military recruiting posters — are repurposed. You will find the statue almost or entirely absent. Maybe that’s because, compared with other icons of national identity, it is ambiguous and ambivalent. As familiar to some Americans as the flag, the statue is just as meaningless or foreign to others, a sign without significance, or worse, a symbol of hypocrisy or unfulfilled promises.
Kennicott claimed, “Indeed, if the statue has had any kind of stable meaning over its lifetime, it is not as a symbol of liberty, but as a symbol of the misuse of liberty — as a hollow promise, unequally distributed and limited in its application to certain groups.”
Several Twitter users criticized Kennicott, one person writing, “Goodness me Philip… to echo Bill Maher, the Statue of Liberty isn’t a Republican… it’s a statue! There must be better things to write about?”
“Western freedom is still the best freedom in the world. Your silly piece is proof of that,” another user commented.
Meanwhile, the New York Times is facing backlash for politicizing the American flag by suggesting “flying the American flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn is increasingly seen as a clue… to a person’s political affiliation,” Breitbart News reported.
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Somebody with good aim should find this guy, then throw a vanilla cream pie, right in the kisser!
Please find another country. We will never meet your expectations.
Unfulfilled promises? The only ones I learned about was “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit f happiness.
Does the Statue of Liberty promise Liberty?
It doens’t promise handouts, does it?
The WaPo is the poster child for hypocrisy. If hypocrisy was a virtue, liberals would be saints.
And how about the Utter Hypocrisy of “democracy dies in darkness “?
Wash Compost is a huge symbol of hypocrisy.
Bill Maher: “the Statue of Liberty isn’t a Republican… it’s a statue! There must be better things to write about?”
So the people that came through that way would have been better off not coming? Don’t think so.
Try looking for Lady Liberty at an exhibition of Chicano graphic art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
It was a gift from France placed in a free country which gives Philip the latitude to write garbage like this.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Such smug condescension from the Washington Compost, arbiters of all that is good and right in the world!
No need to waste vanilla cream, shaving cream will do.
It really is total war.
Those who hate the US are glad they live here. It is the way their ancestors got here is their problem.
Should I be upset that my ancestors did not come here (1790) in luxury on the QE2?
That is past. Get over it.
Pursuit Of Happiness. No guarantee you will get it but you can keep trying.
WaPo teaming up with the CCP to crush Lady Liberty.
I wonder if Jeff Bezos would like to trade place with Jack Ma.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/06/02/when-the-tanks-crushed-the-statue-of-liberty/amp/
Democracy dies with Democrats.
Of course we are (were!) a republic, but whatever.
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