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>It something that offends a very large group of people with clear reasoning even if you disagree with the reasoning. I don’t understand why people find the nee
by StanislavPetrov 4y ago
>It something that offends a very large group of people with clear reasoning even if you disagree with the reasoning. I don’t understand why people find the need to poke that.
This wasn't some sort of general education seminar that went out of its way to bring up a controversial issue. It was an Art History class. To suggest that an art history professor should be somehow constrained in showing historical art , to adults, in a college class because some people might find it offensive is frankly absurd. The fact that the college would choose to expel the art historian who showed this historical art in an art class rather than those who were offended because of their primitive religious beliefs is a perfect encapsulation of the intellectual rot that has infected "Western society".
- zaphirplane 4y agoI’m pretty sure if I randomly picked a decade over the last 4000 years and a culture the odds are fairly low to land on that. It’s disingenuous to suggest this is important to art class because simply there is nothing notable about the drawing, what is notable is the subject and the controversy. At best an average art lecturer wants to make statements about censorship they can do it on their dime in their own medium. the worst is, let’s leave that.
- toomim 4y agoYou didn't read the article. It explains exactly why the professor chose this piece and how it fit into his class lesson. You don't need to speculate like this.