Where Are They Now?
About 13 years ago, when the floodgates opened to complaints about "political correctness," a favorite target was Leonard "Ice People" Jeffries, an Afrocentrist academic at CCNY with a habit of saying unflattering things about white people in general and Jews in particular. Where is he now?
These days the professor is allied with the noted camera-chaser Calvin Butts, among others, as part of an effort to "combat offensive media in the local community" by painting over billboards advertising alcohol or tobacco. According to the Amsterdam News, "Butts said that they did not need permission from anyone to paint over the ads. 'They are negative, and they are in our community.'"
There was a time when such activists would at least try to deface the billboards they disliked in a creative way. These guys just paint over the damn things. Double penalty.
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Does that mean that I can paint over Butts and Jeffries if they come into my community? I mean, being negative and in my community and all.
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By coincidence, I just sent the below to my local "alternative" free and worth every penny newspaper, the CityBleat:
In Porkopolis it says, "Monica Williams of the Coalition for a Just Cincinnati said the most telling statistic hadn't been presented at all: In recent years, Cincinnati Police officers have killed no white men, in contrast to more than 20 African-American men."
Surely all of us reading this have read "The Lottery," a short story by Shirley Jackson.
If our mayor were really "strong," he would already have organized a lottery among white males along the lines of the story to select one a year for stoning to death by the Cincinnati Police. What's he waiting for? Val the Impaler? (nickname for city manager)
Every leap year we could have a "bonus" stoning, a twofer, directed just at Jews. -
wha?
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these billboards are created by corporations, which are state creations, therefor it is libertarian to vandelize
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By that logic, if I thought a particular religion was negative, could I paint slogans expressing my views on their curches?
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world's smallest violin
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These guys make Curtis Sliwa seem like a modest, retiring person.
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hah! curtis is the city's answer to bill o'reilly, except to silwa's credit he's actually done things - with varying degrees of success - as well as yelled at people.
i dunno, though...if you put up a billboard or even just a building round here, you should expect it to be vandalized eventually. part of the ever-shifting urban landscape. jeffries n' pals lack the artistic and humorous qualities that previous "culture jammers" (what an awful fucking term) so ably displayed, even if one disagreed with their political outlooks.
businesses weeping about their work being swept up in an ever-changing landscape is pretty pointless, no? -
These criminals have no respect for private property.
They vandalize corporate property, which raises costs for the corporations, which they are then forced to pass on to consumers.
Now I have to pay more for beer because of these idiots.
This is all a result of the lack of basic economic education in the public school system. -
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