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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by GameOfFrowns on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:31AM (#30007559)
In the same vein:

"If you mix art and politics, you get propaganda"

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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by MrsPeaches on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:56AM (#30007759)
May I ask where this quote came from? It seems utterly nonsensical to me.

Edit: maybe it’s Politics with an uppercase P rather than politics with a lowercase p? That would make more sense.

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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by GameOfFrowns on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:43AM (#30008171)
Sorry, I have no source and also I think the actual quote goes something like this (I just tried to follow the template from the parent comment):

"If art gets involved with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda."

I think it was some kind of retort to the Frankfurt school[0],[1] philosophical movement.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by MrsPeaches on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:45PM (#30016403)
> If art gets involved with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda.

Does that actually make any sense to you?

Would you consider Guernica by Picasso[1] propaganda?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

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Re:Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong by 8note on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:51PM (#30014749)
I'd lean "if you mix art and power, you get propaganda"

If you mix art and politics, you get politics

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