Piss Christ is not art and if in your opinion it is it certainly doesn't rate having tax dollars pay for it.ProfX wrote: ↑Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:57 am OK, while I generally also am very reluctant to see any censorship of art - I hope you were defending when controversial works like Mapplethrope's Piss Christ were being removed from galleries, for example - public monuments are put up for the public to honor people at public expense.
This idea is just silly. Statues of Stalin were taken down in much of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. Swastikas and statues of Hitler and other Nazi Party members were taken down after 1945. I could keep going. I won't even get into the U.S. soldiers who assisted taking down a very prominent statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003.... monuments maintained at public expense are not just "works of art". In most cases, these statues of Confederate leaders were taken down and moved to museums where viewing them is a CHOICE and discussed in proper historical context ... I am perfectly fine with that.
Oh, and if they were just destroyed, well again for purposes of historical records, I at least hope photos and other documentation were kept, because all history, including how it's chosen to be remembered (historiography), needs to be documented, but I won't lose much sleep.
BTW, CRT is not a "college elective". Undergraduates who go on to law school might encounter it, but it's not even a core part of law school curriculum. It's something that might be covered IN a course (probably on race and the law), there are no courses on/in/of "CRT" as a subject.
Most if not all of the Confederate monuments were put up with donations. Plus there is no doubt about those statues being art by any standard.
Your comparisons to people like Hitler is just not an accurate or truthful comparison.
As for CRT yes the left would like to get it into public schools k-12. Which would be ok depending on the text book and how it is taught and you could get the political agenda removed from same.
Lastly I know of no Confederate statues which were removed to a museum