hmelton:
Molly has been in hiding since, I believe, mid-July. I suspect that's part of the reason you're not seeing mass outrage.
That said -- you say all she did was put some ink on paper. This is entirely incorrect.
Molly manipulated a symbol. Symbols have power; they always have and they always will. Symbols mean something to people. And Molly quite clearly knew this -- it's an artists stock in trade, the manipulation of symbols. We (meaning the US, primarily) don't believe in the same symbols as everyone else, but that doesn't make them any less valid to the people they have meaning for. There is a reason propaganda is such a huge part of every war. There is a reason that flags are saluted, national anthems sung, and soldiers buried with the symbols of their country.
Whatever you may think, Molly did not simply put some ink on a piece of paper, and it's blatantly obvious that everybody knows this, from the people it was targeted at to the people who censored it to the people who gleefully rallied behind it.
Symbols matter. It's not rational but it's true and it's the reason artists can have such a disproportionate impact on society. So please, don't try to downplay her actions as being inconsequential. Symbols have throughout history been deemed to be worth many, many lives. Were they worth hers?
... only she can say, really. And judging by her actions, she doesn't think so.
But she made the choice to attack someone else -- and yes, their response is out of proportion to whatever crime they think she committed, but again, it was nothing that couldn't have been foreseen, quite easily.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Molly has been in hiding since, I believe, mid-July. I suspect that's part of the reason you're not seeing mass outrage.
That said -- you say all she did was put some ink on paper. This is entirely incorrect.
Molly manipulated a symbol. Symbols have power; they always have and they always will. Symbols mean something to people. And Molly quite clearly knew this -- it's an artists stock in trade, the manipulation of symbols. We (meaning the US, primarily) don't believe in the same symbols as everyone else, but that doesn't make them any less valid to the people they have meaning for. There is a reason propaganda is such a huge part of every war. There is a reason that flags are saluted, national anthems sung, and soldiers buried with the symbols of their country.
Whatever you may think, Molly did not simply put some ink on a piece of paper, and it's blatantly obvious that everybody knows this, from the people it was targeted at to the people who censored it to the people who gleefully rallied behind it.
Symbols matter. It's not rational but it's true and it's the reason artists can have such a disproportionate impact on society. So please, don't try to downplay her actions as being inconsequential. Symbols have throughout history been deemed to be worth many, many lives. Were they worth hers?
... only she can say, really. And judging by her actions, she doesn't think so.
But she made the choice to attack someone else -- and yes, their response is out of proportion to whatever crime they think she committed, but again, it was nothing that couldn't have been foreseen, quite easily.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs