Okay, here's some real on-the-spot humor which I didn't draw:
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UPDATE
Some visitors - and definitely one commentator - may dislike the above imagery and presume I am racist. Since I tell jokes about Jews, I want to be clear: I am not an antisemite.
Now that that is out of the way, consider this item I just caught and ask yourselves, did I post above perhaps a work of art? -
A crucified ape and a black Jesus sitting on an electric chair are on show at an art exhibition in a former church.
The controversial works are part of a wider exhibition of 60 pieces that are being shown for two weeks from Wednesday at the former Holy Trinity Church, now known as One Marylebone, in central London.
Among the more controversial pieces on display in the historic church, which was built in 1825 by Sir John Soane, are two from Paul Fryer, whose works include an ape being crucified on a cross and a waxwork of a black Jesus being electrocuted.
In a promotional brochure he admitted the images were “provocative”.
"(The gorilla artwork) is a reminder of our collective responsibility to protect those who are least able to protect themselves," he said.
"It features an image which I obviously realise is provocative but which I hope may evoke sadness and compassion as well as outrage.
"It would be a pity if it were to represent what we had failed to protect and the things we had lost forever as a result of that failure. Time will tell I suppose."
Joe La Placa, the curator, defended the exhibition, saying it was designed to inspire people to think and understand “deeper meanings”.
The director of All Visual Arts admitted some people would be shocked by the exhibition but rejected suggestions it was designed purely to shock.
The curator, 49, dismissed such claims as “ridiculous” and “shallow”, adding that art should “create curiosity and promote learning”.
He said the ape sculpture was designed to get people how to think how and why primates were disappearing while the Jesus sculpture got visitors thinking about how he died.
“It inspires you to connect to your maximum ability to learn and connect… I think great art heightens that,” he said.
“You don’t want to be bored, you want to be excited and say ‘wow, what’s that’. Hopefully it catches you.
“An exhibition that is just shock horror leaves you empty but great art grabs you and they make you think deeper.”
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interspecies...or not? i don't think paris is much more intelligent than a chimpanzee, probably less.
It seems that you feel that President Obama should not have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I can't say that I disagree with you, though perhaps for different reasons. In any event he should not YET have been awarded the prize. Hopefully, someday, he will be deserving of it.
However, as I've written to you on a number of prior occassions, it would be nice if your expressions of disagreement with President Obama were done in a more polite manner. This post ('NOT A Congratulatory Kiss') is racist, demeaning, and insulting.
The easiest way to judge the suitability of a word, a term, or a photo is to turn the tables; that is, imagine someone writing a blog disagreeing with your stand on particular issues and using a similar* "sense of humor" to get their point across. Be honest with yourself on how you would react.
Basically you are preaching to the choir. Those people who ALREADY agree with you will get a chuckle. Those who don't agree with you will NEVER be convinced of the correctness of your positions by these demeaning attacks.
Respectfully yours,
Mark
(*Note: When I say similar, I don't mean exact. Replace the monkey (or chimp) with something that typically is used in caricaturizing Jews and/or "settlers").
As they say: pornography is in the mind of the beholder.
Wow! "... in the mind of the beholder".
So, when you placed a photo of a chimp being kissed, and placed a headline above it referencing a kiss to a nobel prize winner, it is just MY IMAGINATION that you were making a racist, boorish, ignorant, malicious, evil, slur.
That deserves a second "Wow!"
You know, you can fool some people, some of the time. But I hear things that people like you say when you are in the company of only people that you think agree with you. I hear it in my neighborhood's shtieblich and in the large "modern" orthodox shuls. I hear it in shiruim filled with yeshivish types and chassidish types. I hear it from parents proud of their children having made Aliyah and living in old, new, and old/new towns. I hear how they (and I include you based on your blog) speak disrespectfully about their president and yours (I admit that I am assuming that you have not given up your US citizenship).
You at least have the strength of conviction to maintain your rudeness publicly while others say these things behind closed doors. However, in this case, that is NOT a compliment.
You, sir, can be better than this. Stick to intelligent, decent, respectable arguments and leave the slurs to baser folks than yourself.
Mark
"fanatic liberals" Who me? I was a Buckly-Reagan fan decades before the Orthodox communitites jumped on the Bush bandwagon.
"all hot and angry" I believe that I kept my remarks rather temperate... do you mean that anybody who disagrees with you is hot and angry?
"Can you send me your excoriation of that Muslim religious leader who ..." Why would I bother communicating with a racist anti-semite whose opinions are formed from hate and not from logic. Are you comparing yourself to him?
By corresponding with you I give you a sign of respect that, though we disagree, I know that you are a fair and intelligent person and give consideration to various views when forming your own. Am I wrong?
thanks for the respect. and I ask you to assume that even right-of-center persons have a sense of humor that is not as bad as radical lefties and don't assume racism is hiding everywhere. and I added something you might agree is fair.
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