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Let me preface this by saying that I have not read the user agreements to see if the sites mentioned specifically prohibit this type of artwork now. Also, my brother has no emotion towards the flag or its implied meanings. This piece of art simply came from inspiration from the controversy. Furthermore, this isn't an advertisement for his work.
I posted this to facebook last night and it got quite the response. A few of you are friends with me on there and may have seen it. I figured I would share it here. I look at this issue as more of an attack on our rights, not the specific controversy of the flag.
Censorship, on even the tiniest level. My older brother is an artist, he sells his work here on Facebook as well as on Etsy. In the turmoil of the confederate flag controversy, he created this piece. Once upload for sale, it was taken down. Not by him, by the places he had posted it for sale. I have not spoken to the controversy of the flag. I will not speak to the controversy of the flag. What I will speak to is the spineless nature of our society. How we, as a nation, cater to the sensitivities of everyone no matter how small the "offended group" is. We start to change the way our history is written so as not to offend anyone. Well, I am offended. I am offended at how quick we are on the trigger to wash our history of oppressive and in some instances offensive material. We were once an opprssed conglomeration of colonies. Oppressed under a tyrannical thumb. We rose up, faught our battles, and won our freedom. That was messy, it was bloody, and it may one day offend a british descendent. Are we then going to re-write our history to roses, rainbows, and unicorns?
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I posted this to facebook last night and it got quite the response. A few of you are friends with me on there and may have seen it. I figured I would share it here. I look at this issue as more of an attack on our rights, not the specific controversy of the flag.
Censorship, on even the tiniest level. My older brother is an artist, he sells his work here on Facebook as well as on Etsy. In the turmoil of the confederate flag controversy, he created this piece. Once upload for sale, it was taken down. Not by him, by the places he had posted it for sale. I have not spoken to the controversy of the flag. I will not speak to the controversy of the flag. What I will speak to is the spineless nature of our society. How we, as a nation, cater to the sensitivities of everyone no matter how small the "offended group" is. We start to change the way our history is written so as not to offend anyone. Well, I am offended. I am offended at how quick we are on the trigger to wash our history of oppressive and in some instances offensive material. We were once an opprssed conglomeration of colonies. Oppressed under a tyrannical thumb. We rose up, faught our battles, and won our freedom. That was messy, it was bloody, and it may one day offend a british descendent. Are we then going to re-write our history to roses, rainbows, and unicorns?
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