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| 2006-11-21 |
| An Ohio businessman has allowed controversial art to be displayed in his store window before, but he's drawing the line at Nazi gingerbread men. Charlie Palmer says he's pulling the display from his hardware store in Oberlin. The artist says he deliberately picked the subject to provoke thought, not offend anyone. "Because nuthin' sez "Happy Holidays!" like goose-stepping fascists!" He put up the display on Friday after Palmer left. The store owner says he put a blanket over it once he started hearing negative comments over the weekend. Palmer says the artist won't be allowed to use his window ever again. Last winter, the same artist used the window to display a "caroler-bashing" snowman and a little boy excited about using his chemistry set to create the illegal drug crystal meth. Maybe Charlie's been using that crap himself if he let this guy set the "artwork" up in the first place... |
| Posted by:Swamp Blondie |
| #4 From my PC-speak dictionary: thought-provoking = deliberately and gratuitously offensive hate speech = non-PC speech |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-21 20:03 |
| #3 Justin the high school guidance counselor. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-11-21 11:15 |
| #2 I see no mention of the "artists" name. Picasso? Rembrandt? Willie from the homeless shelter? Drew the pothead from Oberlin college? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-11-21 10:20 |
| #1 The artist says he deliberately picked the subject to provoke thought, Or perhaps he knew that he was incapable of creating anything of value, so went the easy offensive way. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-11-21 08:44 |