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[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

It is beyond imagination that anyone could misconstrue the Soviet agitprop in Jay Carney's kitchen as an indication that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and his wife somehow share the same ideas as the perpetrators of a brutal regime that starved its own citizens while the political elites lived in luxury, abused power, prosecuted the opposition, and ruled the country by means of executive orders.

Next, they would claim that that a neat stack of Chairman Mao's Little Red Books in Valery Jarrett's bathroom is not there merely to serve as an elegant accent to complement the shower curtains; or that the Black Panther Party insignia on Michelle Obama's pajamas isn't merely a bold decorative pattern; or that the black flag of holy Jihad in Huma Abedin's bedroom is somehow indicative of her sympathies towards the Muslim Brotherhood.

Following such flawed right-wing logic, one might even speculate that Saul Alinsky's books on Hillary Clinton's living room mean anything other than an effort to disguise an obscure dried spot that had mysteriously appeared on the coffee table in the last year of her husband's presidency.

Comments

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of Mein Kampf, am I a Nazi?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

Do you proudly hang it on your wall as a decoration?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

It's on my bookshelf, where I keep my books. How can you tell the art is hung with pride?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

When it is for common observation. Stop calling that art. I understand that's one thing you can hang on to justify your idols.
I ask you this - would you consider KKK posters as an art? Please yes or no.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

What idols?

Did the KKK posters you're thinking of have art on them? Then yes.

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

My God! You the one who calls that poster an art. If you call it art, then you have to call art the other posters as well, right?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

But that poster is art. What makes it not art, just that you don't like it and it reminds you of when it was originally created?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
Oxford, just in case you would think that I came up with the definition.
Tell me where do you see any beauty here.
Actually, you are right, me and a lot of other people, like millions, do not like it not only because it's a piece of junk, but also for what it represents. So, if you like it, then not only you are totally tasteless, but also you might be glorifying something really bad.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Beauty or emotional power. So, judging from your reaction here, it has emotional power, therefore due to your definition of art it is art?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

Beauty!!! It doesn't have any power over me, though I admit I'm a bit emotional in general, so try to be careful and don't hurt my feelings

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Tell me where do you see any beauty here.

Who said I did? I just find it odd that you're the arbiter of what is and isn't art.

So, if you like it, then not only you are totally tasteless, but also you might be glorifying something really bad.

What if you just like the visual style?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to lie to you-I'm not connoisseur, I don't see any beauty in the "Black Square" or "Guernica", but there are some simple things like 1+1=2. "This poster is no art" is one of those.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

there are some simple things like 1+1=2. "This poster is no art" is one of those.

Why?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

Because I said so. I hope you are closely familiar with the expression.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

I'm aware of when someone lacks a reason.

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

Absolutely not. It is when somebody with authority and experience tired of useless arguing of subordinate, e.g. a mother versus a child.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

It's not art?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

As much as KKK posters.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

So it is art.

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

According to you, I have to tell you, you have a very bad taste.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Why is it not art?

Just because it's art, doesn't mean you have to like or approve of it.

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

As long as you approve it, I'm fine with it.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Why do I need to approve anything?

[madam-shapo.livejournal.com]

You don't, but you are trying too hard.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

At what?