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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Liberal Dilemmas

We have a wag about the office who regularly poses hilarious dilemmas for left-wingers. Here's the latest:

1. U.S. soldiers flush a Koran down the toilet.
2. It turns out they have a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Earnest left-winger, what should you think of this situation?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have an interesting dilemma:

1. Clever doctors have discovered the gene that inclines women to become radical femininists.

2. Advocating and supporting the abortion of those unborn females that possess that gene.

Hunter Baker said...

Tlaloc, here's another left-wing dilemma for you. What if conservative couples started aborting unborn children with a genetic marker linked to homosexuality? Still support it?

Anonymous said...

Tlaloc said: In the context of a work of art I have no problem with it. In the context of torturing people it becomes a tad less understandable.

I'm confused. Hunter's wag apparently said nothing about torture in his dilemma. Hunter said nothing about torture in his post. So the context of the dilemma lacks torture. I took the dilemma as a jab at fact that some on the left are very solicitous of Muslim religious sensitivities while at the same time despising Christians, to the point of applauding as "art" gratuitous vulgarity like a crucifix in a vat of urine. My guess is that he had something like what we see here in mind, to wit:

What struck me about the segment was the completely biased depiction by Amanpour and Co. of the Crusades as an attack on the Muslim holy sites with nary a mention of the fact that the Crusades were a response to the earlier takeover of the Christian lands by Muslims.

Chuck

Anonymous said...

I'm sure that was his point but as before it's ill founded in a misunderstanding between art supported by a grant and a military run intelligence operation. Strangely the two have vastly different criterion. Or to put it another way I'd be pissed if a sergeatnt interrogating Hunter flushed a bible down the toilet as well.

I appreciate your last sentence, but as I read the dilemma, the original situation is irrelevant to it except as an occasion for this particular musing by Hunter's wag. I don't see how whatever humor the dilemma possesses depends in any way on the misunderstanding you cite. I see no attempt to exhonorate the flushers in the interrogation context, implied or express. I certainly don't exhonorate them.

By the way, one must wonder if the office wag is named Francis Beckwith:

After all, if 17 people were killed as a result of Christians angry about Piss Christ, Serrano and the NEA would not be blamed. The ones blamed would be the "intolerant" Christians (as they should be).

Chuck