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> What is the article author trying to point out there? That the artist is not PC enough, so his art must be valueless and he should probably be cancelled.

by Udik 6y ago

freewilly1040 6y ago
> Trump-is-a-Poopy-Head/Cheeto Mussolini genre of art This and other comments would seem to blow past the fact that the critique also pans the “pc” political commentary (see also the comment on the George Floyd piece). Ironically it is people in this thread decrying cancel culture that are refusing to engage with anything that might possibly contradict their politics.
Jonnax 6y ago
So any critique now is cancel culture?
- Udik 6y ago
  This critique is clearly singling out a few of the 5000 images for lack of adherence to the current standard of PC. The headline is in line with this- who does seriously think that art should be "pretty"? What "is not so pretty" is supposed to mean, other than that there's some stuff in it we should disapprove? Asking art- good or bad- to be politically correct is ridiculous; and anyway the "artwork" is a composition, not the sum of the individual images.
  - tsimionescu 6y ago
    The critique is calling the art bad and sometimes mysoginistic. It is not, in any way, calling for the artist to be canceled. And yes, art can be racist or misogynistic or problematic in other ways. There's nothing wrong with calling it that. Or do you think it's cancel culture to call "Birth of a Nation" racist?
    - luckylion 6y ago
      > It is not, in any way, calling for the artist to be canceled. Please. "I'm not saying we should do something about it, but oh my gosh, look how offensive it is".
      - rfw300 6y ago
        I suppose all criticism is cancel culture if you just pretend the “cancel” part is there.
        luckylion 6y ago
        Criticism != What this article does. Tone and style makes the difference between criticism and the works of the Schreibtischtäter. It's a great German compound word from Schreibtisch (=desk) and Täter (=perpetrator). It's the person sitting at a desk, keeping their hands clean, writing to make others do the dirty work.
        Jonnax 6y ago
        What dirty work? Didn't this guy get $69 million dollars? And you're using a word which from the wikipedia article is described as: "The term "desk murderer" (German: Schreibtischtäter)[1] is attributed to Hannah Arendt and is used to describe state-employed mass murderers like Adolf Eichmann, who planned and organised the Holocaust without taking part in killings personally." I'm amazed.
        UncleMeat 6y ago
        For real. Dude just made an enormous amount of money and was catapulted into broad fame by it. This is the opposite of being cancelled.
        luckylion 6y ago
        > What dirty work? Didn't this guy get $69 million dollars? That was _before_ the article. Obviously you can't cancel people before you know about them.

> What is the article author trying to point out there? That the artist is not PC enough, so his art must be valueless and he should probably be cancelled.

by Udik 6y ago

> What is the article author trying to point out there? That the artist is not PC enough, so his art must be valueless and he should probably be cancelled.

freewilly1040 6y ago

> Trump-is-a-Poopy-Head/Cheeto Mussolini genre of art This and other comments would seem to blow past the fact that the critique also pans the “pc” political commentary (see also the comment on the George Floyd piece). Ironically it is people in this thread decrying cancel culture that are refusing to engage with anything that might possibly contradict their politics.

Jonnax 6y ago

So any critique now is cancel culture?

Udik 6y ago
This critique is clearly singling out a few of the 5000 images for lack of adherence to the current standard of PC. The headline is in line with this- who does seriously think that art should be "pretty"? What "is not so pretty" is supposed to mean, other than that there's some stuff in it we should disapprove? Asking art- good or bad- to be politically correct is ridiculous; and anyway the "artwork" is a composition, not the sum of the individual images.
- tsimionescu 6y ago
  The critique is calling the art bad and sometimes mysoginistic. It is not, in any way, calling for the artist to be canceled. And yes, art can be racist or misogynistic or problematic in other ways. There's nothing wrong with calling it that. Or do you think it's cancel culture to call "Birth of a Nation" racist?
  - luckylion 6y ago
    > It is not, in any way, calling for the artist to be canceled. Please. "I'm not saying we should do something about it, but oh my gosh, look how offensive it is".
    - rfw300 6y ago
      I suppose all criticism is cancel culture if you just pretend the “cancel” part is there.
      - luckylion 6y ago
        Criticism != What this article does. Tone and style makes the difference between criticism and the works of the Schreibtischtäter. It's a great German compound word from Schreibtisch (=desk) and Täter (=perpetrator). It's the person sitting at a desk, keeping their hands clean, writing to make others do the dirty work.
        Jonnax 6y ago
        What dirty work? Didn't this guy get $69 million dollars? And you're using a word which from the wikipedia article is described as: "The term "desk murderer" (German: Schreibtischtäter)[1] is attributed to Hannah Arendt and is used to describe state-employed mass murderers like Adolf Eichmann, who planned and organised the Holocaust without taking part in killings personally." I'm amazed.
        UncleMeat 6y ago
        For real. Dude just made an enormous amount of money and was catapulted into broad fame by it. This is the opposite of being cancelled.
        luckylion 6y ago
        > What dirty work? Didn't this guy get $69 million dollars? That was _before_ the article. Obviously you can't cancel people before you know about them.