2022 also has plenty of WTF?!?!? moments.

[HideousRex]

Meet Your Second Wife - SNL

[vinraith]

@Menzo

It’s a funny graph and all, but why do we care who Leonardo DiCaprio dates? He’s not doing anything illegal is he?

I was going to say the same thing but then @WhollySchmidt’s first quoted tweet went and justified the whole damn conversation.

[Menzo]

Yeah, I’ll allow it.

[Timex]

Some context on that “KKK plaque mounted at West Point” story:

West Point ‘Klan’ Image Is Small Detail in Large Mural; Artist Viewed KKK as...

" Sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser, in notes she left to West Point about the piece, referred to the Klan as “an organization of white people who hid their criminal activities behind a mask and sheet.” She presented the three-panel mural to the school in 1965, depicting several decidedly pro-Union images of the Civil War."

[Mark_Asher]

I don’t see how that is automatically intrepreted as a warning. Is there a Nazi swastika somewhere as a warning? A hammer and sickle?

[HumanTon]

@Mark_Asher

Is there a Nazi swastika somewhere as a warning? A hammer and sickle?

According to the Coffee or Die article linked above, there’s also a “carpetbagger” on the same panel - which, given when this sculpture was made, was probably meant to be a “both sides” thing.

[TheWombat]

5% horseshit and 95% ice cream is still horseshit.

[Timex]

If you check the article, it actually has notes from the artist herself, who clearly did not have favorable views of the kkk.

[Woolen_Horde]

Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit

[TheWombat]

@Timex

If you check the article, it actually has notes from the artist herself, who clearly did not have favorable views of the kkk.

Which is great, but irrelevant. The work has to stand on its own, and in the context of our modern understanding of events and history and representation, the imagery is simply not acceptable.

[Timex]

I think it’s fine now that I’ve seen the piece as a whole.

[Telefrog]

It’s a plaque installed at a military school. I think if you have to do supplemental reading or ask the artist for clarification, you may have missed the mark.

[Mark_Asher]

@Timex

I think it’s fine now that I’ve seen the piece as a whole.

No, not at all. At face value it’s an endorsement of the KKK. It needs to be removed. It will be no great loss to the art world. They can take down the carpetbagger thing too. After all, the Army isn’t concerned with domestic threats. There’s an internal force for shooting American citizens. The Army is focused on external threats.

[Canuck]

I would have to see what all of the other little ovals are that are around the perimeter of that plaque. Are they all enemies that West Point graduates encountered? Or are they depicting upstanding individuals? More context is needed.

[John_Doyle]

@Mark_Asher

No, not at all. At face value it’s an endorsement of the KKK. It needs to be removed. It will be no great loss to the art world. They can take down the carpetbagger thing too. After all, the Army isn’t concerned with domestic threats. There’s an internal force for shooting American citizens. The Army is focused on external threats.

At whose face value? Someone (you?) has decided the artist doesn’t know what she created and she’s wrong so it has to go? Get over it.

[Mark_Asher]

@John_Doyle

At whose face value? Someone (you?) has decided the artist doesn’t know what she created and she’s wrong so it has to go? Get over it.

I’m expressing an opinion, not issuing a decree. Get over it.

[Mark_Weston]

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

[Canuck]

LOL.5

[anonymgeist]

One of my small joys in life is getting Alexa to say the name of this album:

[TheWombat]

@John_Doyle

At whose face value? Someone (you?) has decided the artist doesn’t know what she created and she’s wrong so it has to go? Get over it.

The artist has nothing to do with it. Once a piece of art is out there, its meaning is negotiated between the audience and the work itself. Intent is meaningless in this case.