Re:U.S. university reverses decision to remove Olympic prote...
by gojomo on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:58PM
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You'd have to have a childlike naivete about figurative-cartoon communication to believe those cartoons "suggest" athletes, in their sportwear, are committing atrocities in Olympic-event-like tableaus.
Perhaps living under a censorious regime creates such gullibility, & obliviousness to metaphor & sarcasm?
(Separately: prosecutions of the Australian soldiers involved in the incidents Mr. Zhao "symbolized" are still possible – but as far as I can tell, none of the incidents involved the slitting of children's throats, as in his graphic photorealistic rendering.)
Perhaps living under a censorious regime creates such gullibility, & obliviousness to metaphor & sarcasm?
(Separately: prosecutions of the Australian soldiers involved in the incidents Mr. Zhao "symbolized" are still possible – but as far as I can tell, none of the incidents involved the slitting of children's throats, as in his graphic photorealistic rendering.)