Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Renderosity and Political Correct

jugoth opened this issue on Dec 13, 2006 ยท 95 posts


Ironbear posted Mon, 25 December 2006 at 7:44 PM

Quote - I know we can't exactly do that with an image of Hitler, but we can look at the image, along with the description, and, using common sense, see whether or not the image is, indeed, glorifying any aspect of the holocaust, or whether it is simply an image of Hitler. Or an image containing the Swastika. Or (insert your imagery of choice).

Jeni

Ok, there's the thing, and that's really the crux that this "Politically correct"/"Politically incorrect" debate thing hinges upon: Why is "glorification" a criteria for banning expression, whereas "condemning" is a criteria for "allowing" it? What makes glorification of a less valid expression than condemnation, in these instances? Applies no matter where it's flipped: there's those who would fight to the death to protect a right to glorify Stalin, FDR, or Pol Pot while thinking nothing of using deadly means if they were allowed to to ban Nazi imagery - and vice versa. [Or you can watch the double standards in the politically correct community between the outcry over the Danish cartoons and the blind eye towards Christian bashing.. with the cynics among us observing that the primary difference seems to be that Christians don't blow people up for mocking Christ. There's any number of examples to pick from.] Is it a nebulous "'Right' to not be offended"? Popular conception? Heh - profitabity? ;) [Not a sneer: a desire to not annoy potential customers is acceptable in a business venture] [I'm going to stipulate that what we're discussing is Renderosity's policy on this, and note further that "freedom of the press" always is dependant on owning the press, in practicality: the ability to truly censor or censure a self-publication medium like the web is doubtful at best - anyone can own a press these days, and the medium for publicizing their efforts] I'm predominately curious, not judgemental here, as you can probably tell by my tone. Censure in artistic media always has seemed to me to be a pecuiliarly mindless pursuit: people who engage in selective versions of it seldom seem to do so from well thought out or objective criteria, and it endlessly fascinates me watching the contortions presented as justifications. ;]

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