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Open Mind? My Poem turned discussion

Thu May 8, 2008, 4:49 PM
  • Mood: Angsty
  • Listening to: My roomate moving out
  • Reading: this over to see if it makes sense
If you didn't read the poem before this, it's a short commentary on what is "acceptable"
I guess I needed to walk away from this one before I found what I truly wanted to say about this. Freedom of expression is a funny thing. I except lots of things: Nude art, violence in art, hell there is even some furry stuff that hits the right cord with me. But Nazi art just doesn't sit right with me. I had half a mind to write a poem bashing Nazi art, but then I realized, how different would I be from the "trolls" who write on the walls of Nude photographers and models saying "you demean women!" or "you're just whoring yourself!"?
I guess what it boils down to is tolerance and acceptance. I guess I tolerate children dressing their favorite Anime characters in Nazi uniforms or drawing pictures of Hitler or animating sex Nazi girls, but it bothers me...perhaps I am reading too much into this. I imagine only a fraction of the people who make Nazi art understand, let alone follow the entire Nazi ideals and the fact that most of them, simply for not being German, would have been just as filthy in the eyes of the true Nazis. Then I stumble onto a page of a girl claiming herself to be a Neo-Nazi, saying she's ridiculed in school for being a Neo-Nazi, and her only real outlet is dA. Can I really turn her art away if I accept nude art, furry art, violent art, offensive art, surrealism, that weird fat art thing were the artist takes anime girls and makes them morbidly obese, or the fucked up poetry that I write? I guess acceptance isn't easy...but it's necessary.

Oh yes, and feel free to comment and add to this discussion

*update* The artist was forced to take their picture down...I feel terrible...

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