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Posted on 04/06/2026 6:38:48 AM PDT by texas booster
The radical culture war on public art.
The Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, has called for the removal of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee whose brutal murder was caught on video, because, according to Mayor Smiley, because of its “misguided, isolating intent”.
Providence has a BLM street mural covering three blocks and a “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” mural, but Mayor Smiley urged supporting artists “whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us” and remembering Irina’s murder divides us.
Unlike BLM and “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” which bring us together.
In New York City, a mural of the murdered woman was vandalized after being up for less than two weeks. In Chicago, it was vandalized in less than a month.
But not all murals and acts of iconoclasm are created equally or treated equally.
Over in Milwaukee, a 74-year-old rabbi was sentenced for vandalizing a terrorist mural depicting the Star-of-David as a swastika. According to media reports, the Muslim ‘artist’ had to be removed from the courtroom after he “acknowledged his support for Hamas”.
People have gone to prison for driving over street BLM and LGBTQ murals while radical mobs have become heroes for tearing down Civil War statues and Columbus monuments. Write “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter” outside Planned Parenthood and you will be arrested, but scrawl “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the Police” and you’ll get a grant. The two-tier culture war politicisation applies to our monuments and murals.
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Where were these ‘preservationists’ when radical mobs were tearing down statues and monuments over a century old? They were cheering them on.
The National Trust not only backed taking down Confederate monuments, but actually cheered on the vandalism of the statue of Francis Scott Key, the writer of the poem that became America’s national anthem, while falsely claiming that the lines of the full poem, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave/And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave” were racist. Any actual historian knows that this was a reference to mercenaries and ‘impressed’ sailors, forced to serve, a major cause of the conflict. ...
The mural in question.
Iryna Zarutska
It is pretty good , if you ask me. Has that Stalin-esque look about it, that should please the mayor of Rhode Island.
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I think it is a wonderful mural, and speaks to the madness and hate that is permeating our culture.
I agree with you, but it is not pointing to conservatives but to the hatred led by the Democrats.
I don’t agree that the BLM and the gender craziness brings us together. They are used as a weapon against conservatives. This mayor is blinded by leftist ideology.
OUR culture?
And none so blind as those who will not see. At some level, they KNOW, but do not acknowledge or admit, the error of their judgment.
Wow. How diverse! They look like twins.
All these destructive actions directed at America’s culture and heritage were executed by Democrats and people appointed by Democreats. Americans must come to realize that any vote for any Democrat anywhere, anytime is a vote to destroy the American nation. Otherwise the nation will be destroyed.
RIP
Young Lady
Sometimes it's good to look at what the mainstream press does not picture....
Wager: If the killer had brutally murdered a homosexual, their attitude on this would be far different. Murals everywhere!
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You’re right. It’s not OUR culture. It’s the replacement culture.
Except for the thug who killed her, and the politicians who facilitated her murder, we should be able to agree that Iryna Zarutska was an immigrant we wanted to keep.
Yes, the Commies will corrupt everything they put their mind to. They are sick, mentally depressed people angry at the world around them because they are such perpetual losers.
OMG!! GROSS!!! PURE DISGUSTING CRAP!
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