80sU2isBest said:And you know what? It's not really completelty about the offensive art. I am about to reiterate a point I have made over and over again. I don't think it's right to force people to pay other people to make art or music or films, period.
You have the right to voice your opinion. I have the right to think it to be wrong.
Art in every Western nation gets government assistance. Period. The U.S. has the only self-supporting film industry, which is a good thing, except for the crap that can come out of it, and our music industry is self-supporting (well, not that we really have to worry about it that much, since most of our music industry is foreign-owned now).
If you want to know some irony, Republicans surely had no problem utilizing Canada's film subsidies. They went north and shot a very nationalistic film about Bush and 9/11--something that had nothing to do with Canada. I think it's currently in production, so we'll have to see if it ever surfaces here.
Anyhow, I think most of us have made our point. What's there to discuss? We obviously aren't going to come to a consensus. Since when do we ever (except for the revisionist history thread? )?
Melon