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I don't see the right using it to bash the left (c.f., Piss Christ, The Holy Virgin Mary, etc.) in your list of grievances.

 

I thought that was implied (X slaps Y, Y slaps X). We can go chicken-and-egg all you want, but we'll never get anywhere. It's like asking two arguing children, "Who started it?"

 

I know. I guess what I mean is that "arts" funding includes pretty universally good things like PBS, and it's wankery like the Piss Christ that's used by the right to justify getting rid of it.

 

I wonder though, let's say he does it. Do PBS / NPR disappear? Seems unlikely. They keep telling us that public funds are a fraction of their budget. So we would et commercials?

 

Doc is tired of fighting and he is generously willing to stop in exchange for total capitulation on the issue.

 

Oh, the right loves public broadcasting.

 

I hope they don't disappear, but I was reading today that they would be in danger. Not sure about commercials. What might be interesting is whether their donations from "viewers like you" skyrocket, the way the ACLU's did recently. Like, whether losing the government funding might, at least in the short-term, be a financial benefit?

 

Well, if he doesn't have any then they won't be employed very long.

 

Agreed. But I would argue that said wankery doesn't appear ex nihilo. Rather, it's funded with the intention of getting a rise out of the right (and, further, to delineate who is and is not burdened with all those bourgeois hangups).

It's not my fight and it's not my issue. Federal funding of the arts leads to a lot of really nice things, and I hate to see those imperiled. It also leads to Bible-clutching tight-asses being unable to ignore the provocations of ersatz avant-gardists. A pox on both of their houses.

 

Breitcucks!

 

You're acting like you're on neither side, yet your proposed solution (ie. "shut it down") is to give one side exactly what it wants and the other side nothing. You're not really wishing a "pox" on the Bible-clutching tight-asses, but instead total victory.

Sounds like you're taking sides to me.