[groanup]

One of these days we will all fit into nice little groups and our overlords will determine whether or not our little groups deserve to be respected by the PC blidiouts.

[groanup]

ping

[since 1854]

All Confederates were Democrats.

[trumandogz]

Hurst asked the museum to remove the display, along with 13 other pieces by Sims.

Our nation should have a law where a person can walk into a museum and demand that art they find objectionable be removed and the curator would have to remove and burn the art immediately.

/sarcasm

[papasmurf]

Sorry, it ain't art.

It's one person's OPINION of how something should be done. It may very well be protected by free speech, but it's not art and does not belong in a museum.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

:O)

P

[ozzymandus]

Who pays for this shit?

[MamaTexan]

When artist John Sims sees the Confederate flag, he sees "visual terrorism," and a symbol of a racist past.

When someone discriminates by holding a few guilty for what had been practiced by all for over a hundred years, I call that "emotional terrorism".

Big whoop. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but what are those people called that FORCE others to abide by their will by throwing two-year old style hissy fits?

(grin)

[NicknamedBob]

I dare say the "artist" Mr. Sims is unlikely to know even one word of flag etiquette.

[kittymyrib]

Mr. Hurst should have taken out his lighter and set fire to the offensive art work, thus exercising his own freedom of expression. The Supreme Court has ruled that torching the US flag is such expression, so the Confederate flag would certainly be fair game.

[stainlessbanner]

Looks like Florida needs to levy some charges against Sims.

From the Florida state Code:

256.10 Mutilation of or disrespect for Confederate flags or replicas.--No person shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon the flags of the Confederacy, or replicas thereof, for crass or commercial purposes; provided however nothing contained herein shall be construed to prevent or prohibit the use of such flags for decorative or patriotic purposes.

And according to Fl. Statute 876.52, flag desecration is a 1st degree misdemeanor, up to $1,000 fine.

[Leatherneck_MT]

He should have torn the display down himself.

Getting to the point you're going to have to defend your heritage and culture with force.

[vaudine]

I wonder what kind of art they would deem a man hanging by his phallus with a pink ribbon shown in great agony and entitled Immoral. Or two women kissing in a bottle of urine called Fitting environment. Let us say a very good artist portrayed these and other scenes like them and actually found a gallery willing to display them.
Would there be a national furor? You bet!
Would Rosie, Ellen and homosexual organizations get involved? You bet!
Would the ACLU sue the artist for a hate crime? You bet!
Would the gallery cave and take it down? You better believe it!

This is the era of the history robbers. Only PC history need apply whether in academia, the arts, or the fourth estate.


vaudine

[gondramB]

[meyer]

My opinion on the Confederate flag is that if waving the flag is all it takes to get the whiny liberal PC crowd in a tither, then I believe that I might wave one. Just watching them foam at the mouth is good entertainment.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Does anyone remember when Art was eye candy, to be admired and appreciated, back before it became a pugi stick in through the eye, to poison the brain?

[Liberty Valance]

Just more race-baiter porn for the fartsy part of the artsy.

[x]

The name of the show was "AfroProvocations."

It looks like everyone participated in making it a success that lived up to the title.

I'm glad that we can all get along and do our bit, rather than just greeting the display with the boredom and indifference that it probably merited.

[Colonel PK]

DO NOT EVER DOWNGRADE MY ANCESTORS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE NORTH'S ILLEGAL INVASION OF THE SOUTH.

[Clemenza]

An archaic symbol of the losing side of a terrible war.

[Tarpon]

When I see a copy of the Atlanta Constipation and Urinal I see verbal terrorism, so what's the problem?

[Centurion2000]

When artist John Sims sees the Confederate flag, he sees "visual terrorism," and a symbol of a racist past.

Sounds like a little metrosexual faggot.

Damn, I'm going to rehab for that