So is Misty Copeland stealing dance moves from Europeans? Did Leonytne Price steal from Europeans when she became an opera singer? How about Alvin Ailey? Please learn the difference between BEING INFLUENCED and Plagarizing. If being influenced is appropriation then we should be pissed off about Jazz, modern art, every…

Oh I’m sorry, I thought you were talking about the freedom of speech enshrined in the Constitution that protects us from oppressive tyrants criminalizing certain writings, art and expressive actions. How did I ever come up with that?

Fuck off commie.

“She can exhibit elsewhere” seems a little shortsighted. This show doesn’t include the painting that roused the protesters, so where’s the guarantee that they won’t continue to rage every time she gets a show?

Just because it could be exhibited elsewhere doesn’t mean in this instance its not being censored... Censorship doesn’t care if you can exhibit it elsewhere....thats not how that works.

I saw the painting of Emmett Till at the biennial, which also included a painting depicting Philando Castile’s death by a black artist (Henry Taylor), and a large instillation featuring images of “Jewish” New Yorkers affixed to pieces of baloney by another black artist (Pope.L). I think the identity of the artist can…

*shrug* Anyone can tell any story in any medium they like.

The first work of art was pretty tone-deaf...but it’s also pretty tone-deaf to say that this is “not about censorship” when you are explicitly asking for someone to be censored and blacklisted.

I think art should inspire and engage people to talk about it, even if they loathe it or it offends. And considering how much harder it is for women artists to be recognized in the art world, no her work shouldn’t be banned nor blacklisted. Even if it’s tone deaf, talk about why. Make it a teachable moment.

I’m protesting your sarcasm. I demand your comment be burned.

Dumping on other people’s successes is more off-putting 

I think what is interesting, joking or not, is that on a very liberal / progressive site I got 6 likes. It seems that at the heart of what I said, whether I said it poorly or not, does indeed resonate with a few people and to me that means we should at least take multiple sides of the discussion seriously.

I am not a fan of using the term “white privilege” because it seems to encourage the idea that some form of reparation is required when technically the “head start” began long before the discovery and arrival of people to America and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and influences places other than America. Also, not…

Why not call the course “The Problem with Social Constructs of Race” then? I’m as liberal as they come, and I agree with the course description and its goal, but the title is dividing and seemingly puts the blame for societies ills on one socially constructed identity alone, which I don’t believe, and provides no…

“Whiteness” is a construct designed by a particular group of people in order to exclude particular other groups and deny them their rights.

So I can hate blackness or Islam as structural problems without hating Blacks or Muslims? I don’t think that reasoning would fly with any of those groups.

Why not name the course “Insitutional Racism” then? “Whiteness” is a trait people are born with. There is no problem with being white. Just like there is no problem with being born black or brown.   

I have a problem with the course’s name. If there was a class called the “The Problem of Blackness,” or “The Problem of Hispanics,” or “The Problem of Jewishness” this website would be up in arms. Being born a particular way isn’t a problem. Nor should it be treated as such.