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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by dasm on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:24PM (#16524562)
Art, by definition should not be objectively evaluated. Art is inherently subjective - objectively great art would not be art, as it loses personal meaning.
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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:43PM (#16524738)
Comrade Zhdanov would not put it better.
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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by dasm on Monday March 05, 2018 @07:46PM (#16525977)
Perhaps you meant to compare the commentor above me to Zhdanov? His views seem diametrically opposed to what I said.
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Re:How Rotten Tomatoes may have radically skewed the Oscars’... by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:56AM (#16527904)
Right, the mania for 'politically correct' inspection of music, art, etc. went viral with Zhdanov, and even those who found the Soviets too authoritarian took it up with glee.
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