02-04-2012, 11:09 PM
while we could complain of every little thing in the media, should we?
a short while a go the philipinne gov made a crap artist take down a crap work of art from a university. the prof of art (or someone like her said, it's art. all the catholics said it isn't it was a mozaic of christian icons and modern day icons like micky mouse et, there was some connection between a condom and the christ. i felt it was a pice of crap though i also thought it carried some relevance. but it was removed, the professor lost her job etc and all the priests and catholics were giggling with happiness. my point is that if we stop the arts from being shown or read we become a sort of racist ourselves. of course we must abide by laws, ie; no child porn even in a poem. but many would depict a poem about an adults struggle with their own child abuse when they were a kid as child porn. personally i wouldn't. for me the vid is just a vid. a crappy one but a just a vid non the less.
do we ban films like purple rain or roots? do we ban films about the holocaust? i say no, i do think that racist crimes are prolific the world over, but if we turn the vid into a crime then where does it end?
a short while a go the philipinne gov made a crap artist take down a crap work of art from a university. the prof of art (or someone like her said, it's art. all the catholics said it isn't it was a mozaic of christian icons and modern day icons like micky mouse et, there was some connection between a condom and the christ. i felt it was a pice of crap though i also thought it carried some relevance. but it was removed, the professor lost her job etc and all the priests and catholics were giggling with happiness. my point is that if we stop the arts from being shown or read we become a sort of racist ourselves. of course we must abide by laws, ie; no child porn even in a poem. but many would depict a poem about an adults struggle with their own child abuse when they were a kid as child porn. personally i wouldn't. for me the vid is just a vid. a crappy one but a just a vid non the less.
do we ban films like purple rain or roots? do we ban films about the holocaust? i say no, i do think that racist crimes are prolific the world over, but if we turn the vid into a crime then where does it end?