Once again, America’s intellectually superior liberals, the same people who laud so-called art like “Piss Christ” and rave about the genius of Robert Mapplethorpe’s “Self Portrait with Whip Up Ass,” are demonstrating their hypocrisy. Now they’re horrified by a one hundred year old “sexist” statue in Queens, New York.
The New York Daily News reports the stupidity:
A controversial Queens statue, featured as an “Eyesore Next Door” in the Daily News, should be sold through an online classifieds site, according to a group of elected officials.
U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner said the city should ditch the statue, “Triumph of Civic Virtue,” because it is “sexist.”
Some community leaders have tried for years to get the city to pay for the restoration of the decaying statue.
Weiner and City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-Jackson Heights) — who want to sell the statue on craigslist to raise funds — said it is offensive because it depicts a nude man stepping on two women.
The statue, crafted more than 100 years ago, is supposed to depict civic virtue, triumphant over the twin sirens of vice and corruption
Aha! No wonder the liberals are hate this statue. It symbolizes triumph over corruption and they see that as a personal attack.
Source: New York Daily News
This post was last modified on April 10, 2021
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Weiner, like the rest of the self chosen, should never be allowed a position of authority in a healthy society......
"Position of authority"... Hell Ben, in a healthy society they would never exist... PERIOD.
The "two women", by the way, are meant to represent prostitutes. Hence the "Triumph of Civic Virtue" name...
Yes, Virginia, there was a time when prostitution was considered "bad"...
OK, so this statue is sexist because it depicts two nude women being stepped on by two nude men? Isn't that basically Sharia law? and they are defending that!
I'm just thankful IHTM included the link to Mapplethorpe's work. . .I think I'll go cancel my appt. with my proctologist.
We're here for you, Ryan. As a source of news and commentary, that is. But not as a proctologist.
I guess liberals get really upset when you step on and trash their two capital virtues: vice and corruption. I failed to mention their lesser virtues of hypocricy, indolence, sloth, envy, back-biting, pretention, sodomy, murder...
You forgot "greed" and most of all, "powerlust."
and just like that old document the Constitution, things that are old are too hard to understand, don't make any sense, and have no place in todays world.
Oh, but dare to criticize 'their' art ? Then what, yep, you're the racist.
Ppl can be so...... (you fill in the blank)
Stupid works.
Blind.
Dumb.
Inane.
Senseless.
I'll stop there.
I think that we should ban it. We should ban everything that offends ANYONE. Oh, I know, you're thinking that I'm one of these psychos. Well, no, follow through with this. Let us ban the hell out of anything and everything that offends anyone whatsoever, and then see what really remains. Sometimes, the only way for people to see how stupid the things are which they seek is for them to attain that for which they strive. The loudest voices are silent next to the stark reality of their own self-created unmaking.
Okay, so after a hundred years of obscurity, "Civic Virtue" is suddenly the center of a storm of controversy because its alleged "sexism". Obnoxious, meddling politicians like Weiner and Ferreras are probably more offended by the concept of civic virtue than the actual statue of "Civic Virtue". Yeah, civic virtue, when voters start thinking about it and acting on it ignorant crapwads like Weiner and Ferreras will be voted out of office.
Maybe ol' Dingy Harry can haul it out to Nevada to symbolize his persecution of night walkers?
Scratch that. Harry only wants to get rid of vice. He likes his corruption. Maybe he can get a discount on the statue for that.
"No classical education, no art history classes…?"
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Now THAT was funny!