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Great piece. To me, the strongest argument is that too often pieces of art are made by dozens to hundreds of artists, and we'll punish along the hundreds of inn
by emiliobumachar 8y ago
Great piece. To me, the strongest argument is that too often pieces of art are made by dozens to hundreds of artists, and we'll punish along the hundreds of innocents to get to the presumed guilty.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>pieces of art are made by dozens to hundreds of artists, and we'll punish along the hundreds of innocents to get to the presumed guilty. Punishing people for association is a common means of striking fear into the people who don't care one way or another about your movement (most of the population doesn't care strongly about most issues) and getting them to at least half hardheartedly act as a force multiplier for your vocal minority. I'm sure you can imagine why a business owner in 1870 Alabama might not want to get caught selling to black people or a white tradesman may not want to take on a job for said business or a publisher in 1922 might not want to publish a book by someone who's known to be a communist. Same principal. I'm sure we'll look back on it the same way we look back on the red scare. Regardless of whether the goal is a good one or not these sort of witch hunts where a majority of the population is kind of uneasy about how extreme they are almost never look like good ideas in hindsight.
- emiliobumachar 8y agoInsightful. An artist will be less likely to look away from abuse that doesn't affect them, if it might cause their work to be erased.