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Feb 13, 2025 6:54 PM
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trippingthelightfantastic
gsmdo
TalleyZorah
This is so good, thanks for sharing the source. Gonna go see if he has anything for sale.
MrMalfunctionTheMasterOfDestruction
It's nice of that man with the paint roller he put up the white picket fence of the American dream for all those people they get to live the American dream thanks to him
Zootsoot
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cosinewave
Powerful statement
proxy5000
hsalonen3000
Thought provoking art. The best kind.
FullMetalJackass
Dude with paint roller needs a red cap
Pikkupanda
I am totally buying a print.
EekumBokumEekumBokum
They've been doing it for a long time. Even before modern day slavery. Its definitely an old playbook.
bottledham
I want to complain about the title but it hardly matters anymore. The right won the battle to redefine "critical race theory". Still a really powerful painting.
LoganCreed42
The victors write the history. You have to win.
acetothermus
Literal whitewashing history. SMH.
reineseele
"Black people have more historical advantages in track and field."-Republican being racist by sayin poor whites never ran from slavers...
cattlegrazer82
That looks more like white paint /s
meigea11
My kids go to a DOD school... Because of the executive orders, they took down a poster of MLK jr. the kids had colored. No one is allowed to check out books while they figure out which ones are effectively banned. All the window paintings of women and minority scientists got erased, and they indefinitely postponed STEM day. This Nazi shit is real and affecting our next generation.
darcmosch
Anyone got that picture of the people who were covered up early on when the orange cheese curdle got in office? Cuz that's quite the image
ListenLady
really going out on the creative branch here.
jejorda2
Tom Scott! No!!
wantednokes
I was about to say that!
MrMalfunctionTheMasterOfDestruction
I hope they post another picture when they finish painting the rest of the painting
miked854
I think that's an oversimplification. It'd be more apt to show an artist painting over these figures in "white face" because they'll still trot out MLK as long as they don't have to recon with any of his actual ideals and just get to repeat "nonviolence" whenever black people seem threatening.
sfrinlan
I think you can artistically represent the same thing in an infinite number of ways. Does telling a story that isn't the real story count for anything? If you erase all the meaning behind what Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and Malcolm X did, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that you've erased them by erasing their real stories.
RedDeadPrevention
This is clearly 'Critical Race Practicality'.
wandermanspacebot
It's so abstract that I can't imagine what the message could be.
IEatMyCum
Imalwaysready
Oof. Where was that?
AnonKneeMoose
FBI Headquarters or another Government department. USAID had a mural of impoverished farmers from Africa/Asia that got painted over as well
combatkillaz
+1 for the bold username
TrumpRapesChildren
I mean, you're saying you don't? I enjoy my own. But I'm usually made to. Perks of marrying someone who does the whole Mistress thing for realsies.
taez555
Man, I haven't heard CRT mentioned much recently. The right really gave up on attacking CRT, when they found that attacking DEI was much more effective. Probably has to do with CRT being more of an educational idea and concept, rather than DEI which is implemented as an actual program and was something that they could blame. God it's exhausting to keep up with their constant racism fence testing.
ghostlight
Even DEI isn't an actual program, it's just a conceptual framework that you can use to inform programs.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
Last time I brought it up, it got dismissed as being based in Marxist ideology, ending all conversation about it.
Owl2017
I mean it is based on Marxist ideology through its relation to critical theory from the Frankfurt school, but that's just a part of the conversation
DJOldguy
SilverFish0
Imalwaysready
Seriously!
Why JUST try to isolate and attack just black people when you can instead isolate and attack the blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Natives, Asians, handicapped, autistics, diabetics, dyslexics, Muslims, the deaf, the blind, mutes, males, females, people with learning disabilities, people with cancer, wounded vets and amputees, the young, the old, the gays, single parents, orphans, and the poor all at once!
ApothecaryGrant
It's not really fence testing anymore. It's a blitzkrieg.
taez555
I meant more in terms of the jurassic park raptors, or people who swipe right on everyone in tinder, in hopes of just breaking through. But yeah.. it's definitely been a fully automatic shotgun lately.
KAPTKipper
The right likes to go for the shiny new thing to hate.
NSAgent
Now it’s DEI, before that it was CRT, before that it was “social justice”, before that (I’m probably missing some) it was affirmative action, and on and on and on…
Kemi337
Woke, Political Correctness
NSAgent
They cycle through the scary words they don’t like so fast!
jadams999
Wasn’t there something between CRT and DEI?
jtxyz
I think after CRT plasma screens were briefly considered high tech.
HelpfulCorn
Woke
sfrinlan
They just switch up the terminology once they've bled the previous dog whistle dry. Here's a super fun list of dog whistles:
DEI
CRT
The Great Replacement Theory
Woke
1619 Project (when spoken about by conservatives)
Affirmative Action
Multiculturalism
Equity
Systemic Racism
Social Justice
Intersectionality
Reparations
Globalism (often anti-Semitic)
sfrinlan
Welfare and Welfare Queens
Anchor baby
Thug (disproportionately used to describe black individuals)
Inner city (aka black and brown communities)
Urban violence (implies crime is a black issue)
Law and Order (to justify race-based policing)
Blue Lives Matter
Meritocracy (denying systemic inequality)
Colorblindness ("I don’t see race", used to dismiss racism)
Western Civilization (as a euphemism for white supremacy)
Traditional Values
LtRooney
'You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r....” By 1968 you can’t say “n****r” [...] So you say stuff like, forced busing, states’ rights, [...] Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N****r, n****r.”'
Lee Atwater, Republican Campaign Strategist
sfrinlan
Just as true then as it is today, and it works, sadly
CommentMalone
They got called out so hard on not knowing what CRT even was that they just moved on to the next acronym
NickRivieraMD
nah I think the person you replied to had it right. they don't give a shit about being called out, at all.
CommentMalone
Very fair point
CommentMalone
Related
Markodgt
They even keep using the word "merit" as if they even understand what it means to be qualified for a position. Take anything trump says and read the transcript of his words, you will swear you're going insane. Now imagine a man who is liable for rape and convicted of 34 felons. Would you hire them for ANY job?
CommentMalone
Replace Merit with White and it becomes so much more clear