Althouse: The more religious of the murals of State Street.

June 20, 2020

The more religious of the murals of State Street.

23 comments:

Sprezzatura said...: I like happy murals for folks who are into cults. I’m not sure that fits this thread:

https://twitter.com/pmatsey/status/1274482890034819077/photo/1; 6/20/20, 6:39 PM
Jon Ericson said...: Astrologists and Scientologists next?; 6/20/20, 6:43 PM
techsan said...: To be human is to have religion. Choose vengeance or forgiveness.; 6/20/20, 6:57 PM
I'm Not Sure said...: I drove through downtown Boise today and didn't see a single broken window, plywood ghetto mural or toppled statue. Downtown (such as it is) where I live, there's American flags flying everywhere. I guess people around here are insufficiently woke.; 6/20/20, 6:58 PM
Birkel said...: A mural full of eliminationist rhetoric.
What happy religious stuff.; 6/20/20, 6:59 PM
wendybar said...: Yeah yeah...we know. All EXCEPT white lives matter. (And black babies!). We got the message loud and clear! Thanks Obama!!!!; 6/20/20, 7:05 PM
Rabel said...: Buddha with the white power symbol and the Nazi salute. Shame.; 6/20/20, 7:16 PM
Bill, Republic of Texas said...: "Black and indigenous lives matter"

It's Black Lives Matter! Racist.; 6/20/20, 7:23 PM
Michael said...: These "murals" are crap. Eyesores. Why are they there?; 6/20/20, 7:23 PM
Craig said...: AmericaIsRacist-ism is all a religion to me. It's certainly not based on science.; 6/20/20, 7:34 PM
Achilles said...: Most of these murals are painted on USB plywood because it is the cheapest.

You will get a few months out of wet USB plywood.

By November those murals are going to be looking pretty shitty.

Hopefully by then the animals are all in jail and those businesses can rebuild.; 6/20/20, 7:43 PM
RBE said...: Why aren't the windows repaired?; 6/20/20, 7:59 PM
Ken B said...: Confirmed: Althouse doesn’t recognize religion, even when it quite literally stares her in the face.; 6/20/20, 8:04 PM
Ann Althouse said...: These murals are on the art museum.; 6/20/20, 8:14 PM
I'm Not Sure said...: "These "murals" are crap. Eyesores. Why are they there?"

To say: "Since we can't have nice things, this is the best we can do."; 6/20/20, 8:26 PM
Narr said...: Crap. Bare plywood is more honest . . . I wonder what it would take to get arrested for vandalizing that garbage.

Is such a thing even possible?

Narr
Cult art always makes me reach for my pecker; 6/20/20, 8:29 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: from a previous thread

hstad said...
Shades of the 'Taliban' in Afghanistan in 2001 - "...The Buddhas of Bamyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautama Buddha...

maybe plywood paintings of Junipero Serra will inspire healing after the next
Bleak Lives Matter tantrum; 6/20/20, 8:43 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: instead of sappy murals, maybe it would be better to post pics of
The White Supremacist Boogaloo Boyz Who Wreaked Havoc In Milwaukee; 6/20/20, 9:15 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: By November those murals are going to be looking pretty shitty.

it's November already??; 6/20/20, 10:02 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: is Buddha's Left Hand making the White Power sign...

...or just cracking his knuckles?; 6/20/20, 10:40 PM
bagoh20 said...: "I drove through downtown Boise today and didn't see a single broken window, plywood ghetto mural or toppled statue. Downtown (such as it is) where I live, there's American flags flying everywhere. I guess people around here are insufficiently woke."

Same here in Vegas. This crazy stupidity is something I only read about, but never really see, at least so far. That may be because the Democrats just recently gained power here, and have not had time to destroy our peace and tolerance kept in place by our busy productive lifestyles.

I work with Blacks. I go out with them, and some visit our home and stay overnight. I have not heard one mention of any of this bullshit. Maybe the people I know are just normal Americans with real lives and responsibilities. The problem with places like Madison is White guilt and unemployed youths living off their parents. They don't know any Blacks, they don't have responsibilities, and they haven't built anything, so there is no respect for what has been built by others, including Blacks and their friends.; 6/21/20, 12:29 AM
tcrosse said...: Why aren't the windows repaired?

Because this shit isn't over yet.; 6/21/20, 7:07 AM
Jupiter said...: "These murals are on the art museum."

Did they trash the museum? Or did the museum put the plywood up to keep from getting trashed? Or in some kind of twisted solidarity with the trashers? Maybe this is supposed to be art?; 6/21/20, 1:13 PM