Re: A different perspective: art and NEA

[tshuman@ccp.com]

In <Pine.SOL.3.91.970703123833.6784B-100000@cor>, on 07/05/97 at 03:35
AM,
   Sean Upton <Sean.Upton@m.cc.utah.edu> said:

<significant snippage>

>We need to respect difference.  Our public policy should reflect
>that,  even if it costs the taxpayer a few dollars.  Whether or not
>the majority  likes or dislikes spending money to fund "Piss Christ"
>or a Barbara  Kruger billboard is beside the point.  We must
>privelege what has been  de-privilged in order to throw the powers
>that be out of whack.

>Sean Upton
>Occasional Art Critic and Debater

This is all very neat, and cleverly argued (to a point).  However, it
must be noted that the tax code should not function as a method for
"throw[ing] the powers that be out of whack."  The moral basis for
taxation is shaky enough without grafting such high-minded silliness
onto it....

Mr. Upton suggests that "We need to respect difference."  Perhaps, but
at gunpoint?  What a curious definition of "respect...."

Terrance Shuman
Bishop LeBlond Memorial High School
St. Joseph, Missouri

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