you know the difference between conservatives and yogurt?
yogurt has culture
Destroy creativity and culture ✅
Destroy and devalue the educational system ✅
Smells like Isis, nazis, Mao, the Spanish Inquisition, etc in here
Aside from the simple fact that fascists hate all art (and everything and everyone, really) that doesn’t hew to their narrow prejudices, I expect that a lot of the problem is that, as opposed to his cronies in the prison industry or the private school industry, none of the recipients of art funding pay him kickbacks.
fascists hate all art
Bullshit. They absolutely love propaganda and co-opting existing symbology to unite their supporters and exclude the out groups they use to fan the flames of hatred.
They do hate all art that doesn’t support their mission though.
Um… yes. That’s pretty much what I actually said.
Did the parenthetical bit confuse you?
Amazing that they will do this and then turn around and complain about the destruction of western culture.
That term can mean a lot of things, but fascists definitely care about aesthetics. They frequently complain about how art has been neglected and the world has embraced functionalism and minimalism to a fault.
While this isn’t a terrible argument in a vacuum, most of these people have a very close minded idea as to what kinds of American art has value, but cutting arts funding this severely is just an invitation for more functionalism and minimalism.
