Posted on 12/04/2014 10:28:12 AM PST by heartwood
Two hours after its creation, passersby destroyed an art installment reacting to the event at Ferguson, which was made by two UW students at the George L. Mosse Humanities Building Tuesday evening.
The piece featured a black hooded sweatshirt hung upside-down from a walkway on the building with the words, “Black be nimble, black be quick, black be dead white magic trick,” written on the sidewalk in dark-colored duct tape.
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This hoodie display did have university approval - it just didn’t look like it.
Why is it, whenever I play contrarian, devil’s advocate, provocateur, people accuse me of relativism? I was the one posted this article in the first place.
It’s a useful activity, promoting healthy skepticism and re-evaluation. And since I’m tone-deaf, I don’t sing too well with the choir ;)
Why should every political statement, or rally, have to have a permit?
That was my anarchist hat, or if you prefer, my anti-big government one.
But no problem with Sarah Palin’s effigy being hung up for Halloween in 2008.
Exactly!
Because, as in this case, you just look like a vandal.
Personally I would have taken it as a racist statement and would have taken it down in the same way I would pick up litter that someone tossed.
If you want to have your rally get a permit so I know to go somewhere else. Because if I find my car suddenly surrounded by people chanting and waving signs I am going to presume they are not friendly. And if there is no exit I will make one.
Now THAT's funny!
The black-tape "speechers" seized, and tagged, a public space, in effect forced the tuition-payers and (presumably) taxpayers to pay to provide a forum for their expression in a public space. But vandalizing public property by taping terroristic jingles on the sidewalk, does not constitute a simple political statement.
And it was the people who "rallied" to preserved the openness and neutrality of the public space, and removed the sinister vandalism, who exercised their right to rally.
Symbolic speech meets more symbolic speech.
My tentative argument.
Heh. I admit it was fun.
“Grafitti = Art Installment.”
Art today can be a booger with a hair in it!
>> Why is it, whenever I play contrarian, devil’s advocate, provocateur, people accuse me of relativism? ... It’s a useful activity, promoting healthy skepticism and re-evaluation. And since I’m tone-deaf, I don’t sing too well with the choir ;)
Marching to your own drummer is fine. But FR is a slightly rough-and-tumble internet forum. Why are you surprised that you get pushback when you peddle moral equivalence?
This is art?
BTW, that sweatshirt looks like a turkey ready for roasting but not yet tied up and stuffed.
That art was worth an A for the semester grade in Multikulturalizm 101.
That’s my point! It’s supposed to be a bit rough and tumble - a forum for conservatives to debate on occasion, and yet straying from the party line as someone sees it, gets nyah, nyah, moral equivalence.
It’s like getting called a racist on a left-wing forum - shut up, you’re spouting moral equivalence.
>> shut up, you’re spouting moral equivalence.
I didn’t say, or even suggest, you should shut up. I said I wasn’t buying what you’re selling. And I explained why.
Kind of sounds like YOU think pushback is ok when YOU apply it... but when you’re pushed back against, it’s an unfair attempt to shut you down.
bfl
This was an “art” installment?
This isn’t college art - it’s too inept even for elementary school.
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