Mastodawn

"Imagine any other political leader getting a pass for such behavior. ...

We live in a country where laws and societal norms are shattered every day — by the president. His abhorrent behavior has given those who want to break laws and undermine the country encouragement to do so. Our country has had its ups and downs, but no American has lived through anything like this before."

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William Lindsey

5d ago

"[Trump's obscene gesture and obscene statement to T.J. Sablula] was reported by the mainstream press like a run-of-the-mill wire service item: 'Trump makes obscene gesture,' wrote The New York Times. 'Trump flips-off apparent heckler,' reported NBC News.

That’s it? One would be excused for believing this is a bigger deal than that."

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IamSheilaat91 Jan 10

@juliusgoat.bsky.social Brilliant! Thank you! #obscenity #swearing #MN #ICE

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 20

A quotation from Margaret Atwood

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There’s something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It’s like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 34 (1986)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 3

A quotation from Orwell

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack upon morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise. So also with all other jokes, which always centre round cowardice, laziness, dishonesty or some other quality which society cannot afford to encourage.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-09), “The Art of Donald McGill,” Horizon Magazine

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MikeDunnAuthor Oct 3

Today in Labor History October 3, 1957: The California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, was not obscene. The poem was based, in part, on a horrifying peyote hallucination he had of the glitzy Sir Frances Drake hotel, in San Francisco, morphing into a child-eating demon. The poem’s references to drug use and to homosexuality are what provoked the obscenity trial. City Lights bookstore own and publisher of Howl, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and bookstore manager, Shig Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for selling the book.

#LaborHistory #workingclass #poetry #AllenGinsberg #LawrenceFerlinghetti #CityLights #obscenity #censorship #FreeSpeech #LGBTQ #homophobia #drugs #books @bookstadon