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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That would be a waste of a perfectly good pie. He should move to North Korea...
Got to say...I’m getting well damn sick and tired of the anti-American presstitutes badmouthing the very country that affords them the freedom to be completely insane and spoon feeding their poisonous drivel to a woefully miseducated populace.
We will need to win back EVERY local School Board for the next forty years, if we are to turn this around.
Doesn’t the dumb cuck know that the Statue of Liberty was given to the U.S. by a poor foreign Frenchman? His gross ignorance is highlighted by the suggestion that the statue is the creation of a White American.
“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.
That part is 100% true.
Yeah Lee, well I’d love to see a 95 year old veteran of WWII
find him and simply kick his sorry ass.
Equity in design? What utter horseshit. As a resident of the District for many years I can say that I believe the city is home to some of the most ugly buildings ever constructed. One example is the State Department. Another the FBI building. Two monumental eyesores. Need I go on?
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