Re: [OT] Artist reinstated after being fired due to political art

On 2025-04-11 3:01 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

An artist-in-residence at a veterinary college on Prince Edward Island
has received an apology after being ousted from his position due to the
political tone of his recent work, particularly one painting.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-avc-apologizes-1.7507766
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The position of artist-in-residence was an unpaid one but the college
was apparently unhappy with the artist's work, which could be construed
as anti-American amidst the controversy over Trump.
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In a rare move for CBC, they actually allow comments under this story.
For the past couple of years, virtually every article - and YouTube
video - has prohibited comments. The only times I've seen comments under
their stories (or videos) in recent years are ones that seemed unlikely
to stoke any sort of controversy.
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 Unpaid artist in residence at a veterinary college.
 I just wanted to see that again.
 There’s no way in hell this ass clown should be able to do whatever he
wants.
 On the other hand three complaints seems like a pretty small sampling to
take action from
 I’m pretty sure I’ve told this before. I have these big box sets of the
golden age of Looney Tunes on laser disk. One of them received one
complaint from one woman in the Midwest because she didn’t like one of the
World War II cartoons, I think it was bugs nips the nips. And they pulled
the set it and re-released it without that classic cartoon. From one
complaint. I can’t imagine how you can ever do anything that doesn’t get at
least one complaint.
 

We have the same nonsense here for vanity plates: just one complaint and you lose that plate. Ridiculous!
I think it would be fun to issue complaints against all provincial officials who have responsibility for license plates, insisting that their own license plates are "offensive". This would be especially delicious on those whose plates are entirely bland. I think that would finally show those idiots that a single complaint is just not sufficient grounds.
The same tactic could be used against the people who bundled up the Looney Tunes cartoons. Send separate complaints against ALL of the cartoons in the set; the more ludicrous the argument in each complaint, the better. That would mean they can't issue the cartoons at all. The loss of income would surely motivate them to set the bar a little higher than a single complaint.
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Rhino