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SlowlyReading's avatar

Off-topic: Not sure if you have already posted about the literal meltdown of the Robert E. Lee statue. I have zero love for the Confederacy or Jim Crow, but like Louise Perry, "One of the things I find sinister about statue iconoclasm is that destroying humanoid figures seems to be such an obvious emotional proxy for public executions."

https://twitter.com/Louise_m_perry/status/1717790021715956155

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/08/robert-e-lee-and-me

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Franklin Einspruch's avatar

I touched on the subject back in 2020. http://www.artblog.net/post/2020/06/honor/

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Brian Curtis's avatar

Precise and insightful. "a lot of us hear “inclusive” and think “fascist.”

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Lisa's avatar

Love this whole line of thinking. Sharing.

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Jack Miamensis's avatar

My problem (obviously personally) is that I've lost respect for so much of the art world that reversing that would require very dramatic conversion--and frankly, I rather doubt the perps have it in them.

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Jack Miamensis's avatar

Franklin, flagrant, established, self-satisfied and opportunistic hypocrisy only deserves forgiveness if its practitioners actually repent and turn away from that. Have they? Will they?

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Franklin Einspruch's avatar

It looks like there are cases of people who went along with something without thinking through it properly and recanted when it burned them. I'm in favor of forgiving them, not the Monoculture's true believers.

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Jack Miamensis's avatar

Well, yes, there are always mindless or weak-minded fashion followers who may not be truly perverse, but the perverse are pretty much incorrigible, and I'm afraid quite abundant.

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