Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "On the Need for a Fair Press & Common Sense (Pt. 2) | Bill Whittle | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.

  1. That sort of thing happens all the time and nobody tries to stop it by force. What you are describing is essentially what much of modern media and art does. Christians get slandered in movies all the time. When a Christian character is depicted in a movie he is either the villain or a dupe. I am sure the same thing happens in other kinds of movies as well, but I am an action movie fan. In Ultraviolet, the villainous organization was represented as a sort of Church, with Christian iconography. In Equilibrium, the same. In Priest, a Catholic Church analog is the organization that fights the vampires, but the high Church official is a villain. In the latest Resident Evil l film the head villain and his clones quote Christian scripture and lead cultists in evil mayhem. In the area of "fine art" Andrfes Serrano got a federal arts grant for "Piss Christ", a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of his own urine, and the Robert Maplethorpe exibit, also marked for a federal arts grant, was a collection of homosexual erotica photographs. Unlike the publisher of the Charlie Hebdo cartoon, who was murdered for publishing a Muhammad cartoon, Maplethorpe and Serrano are alive and well. I can't tell you about TV, I don't watch TV. As for patriotism, it receives much the same treatment. US flag burning is popular and essentially encouraged in the nations prominent universities. Patriots and soldiers are depicted as monsters in an unending supply of well funded and lavishly produced and promoted movies that nobody watches, but which keep getting made, while the fact that the few movies that depict our servicemen positively actually sell tickets is ignored. Except for the Muhammad part (for obvious reasons) your "wild hypothetical" essentially happens every day, and has elicited no calls for censorship. There has been some support for eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts that keeps funding folks like Serrano and Maplethorpe, but that is not censorship. So, your hypothetical scenario, informed by your prejudices, has been amply proven wrong by experiment.
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