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re: CATO to protest THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER @ Met Opera

Posted by:	enoch10 01:41 pm EDT 09/15/14
In reply to:	re: CATO to protest THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER @ Met Opera - AlanScott 04:18 pm EDT 09/14/14

this is EXACTLY why that kind of logic works. well, if you approve of a production of KLINGHOFFER then you support throwing a wheel-chair bound man overboard. and for years and years and years this kind of "logic" held sway. it is only very recently that people have spoken up and gone, wait - this is more complicated than that. and that is what terrifies the people who've tried - and until very recently succeeded - to control the parameters of the discussion. which is exactly what these protests are. that's why art is so transgressive. questions can be asked and lights can be shined on previously unexamined aspects of things. and for the folks who want to keep discussions like this as binary (we're good and they're bad) as possible and simple (we're always right and they're always wrong) as possible this is a very real threat. as art - even now - can be. they're right to object. as james dickey used to say - it's the stuck pig who squeals.

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