Which Is More Offensive?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/695987/Hillary-Clinton-swimsuit-lushlux-melbourne-Maribyrnong-graffiti-niqab

Must admit the Islamic view of Hillary is more appealing.

[Cloverjo]

You could ask the same question about anybody.

[andy-hughes]

It depends what offends you - and that is individual.

Personally, I am not offended by either.

[Old_Geezer]

Maribyrnong council in Melbourne, where the mural was painted, said: "This mural is offensive because of the depiction of a near-naked woman"

Well they had better stay well away from the beach then. Victorian values still alive and kicking in Australia.

And no, a picture of a woman taught to feel they need to hide is not more appealing than a so-so painting of a woman in a bikini.

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo

/// You could ask the same question about anybody. ///

I could have and I could have also asked the same question about anything but I didn't, and if you had bothered to read the link properly, you would not had failed to notice this is about a mural of Hillary Clinton.

[sp1814]

AOG

I think it will be offensive to anyone who is permanently offended.

It's getting a bit tiresome, isn't it. The daily grind of people running all over the Internet looking for something to be offended about.

I know that you have raised that point in the past, and I think I agree with you here.

[Bazile]

This is quite frankly , outrageous !!

[Cloverjo]

My point was that it's irrelevant who the person was. It could have been Trump.
They are both fabricated images, and I'm not offended by either of them despite my being a Hillary supporter.

[Mamyalynne]

It's just graffiti, I can't get bothered by either image really.

[RandyMarsh]

But, mams, Hilary has a great rack eh?

[youngmafbog]

Neither is really offensive. Unfortunately some cultures refuse to accept ours and make us adopt theirs. Now that is offensive.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - // Unfortunately some cultures refuse to accept ours and make us adopt theirs. Now that is offensive. //

Unfortunately some members of some cultures refuse to accept other cultures and try to make them adopt theirs.

Now that is offensive also.

[youngmafbog]

Sheer rubbish.

Why should someone born in a place change to accommodate someone who has moved in?

[Mamyalynne]

You think Randy?

I don't think graffiti is attempting to make someone change.

[joeluke]

Imagine the outrage if a poster of a muslim woman in a niqab was painted over by a graffiti artist and it showed her wearing a skimpy stars and stripes swimsuit with half of her puppies on show

One rule for us, one rule for…….

[sp1814]

YMB

Do you know the irony of what you wrote...about a story set in Australia?

[sp1814]

joeluke

You can't say 'one rule for us' and support that by a completely imagined scenario.

[whiskeryron]

What would be highly offensive would be a mural of a naked Donald Trumpet.

[Baldric]

I wasn't offended by either of them, but let's just say I'm glad the Clinton one was covered up.
'Stuff of Nightmares' comes to mind ;o)

[andy-hughes]

YMB - //Sheer rubbish.

Why should someone born in a place change to accommodate someone who has moved in? //

Why should someone assume that that is actually what is happening.

If the media had devoted less time and attention to the racist posturings of the EDL and similar, the publicised notion of the 'Islamisation' of this country would not have gained the traction that it has.

Having been spotted as a headline grabber, the right-wing media have pumped this story up week in week out, and - atrocities notwithstanding, which are an entirely different aspect of the issue - this whole media construct would have run out of steam years ago.

Paranoia and jingoism go hand in hand, under the fatuous notion of 'patriotism' and 'protecting what is ours ...' and similar guff.

It was nonsense then, it is nonsense now.

[Mamyalynne]

The way I see it , Graffiti artist does a picture, Council complains and demands removal, Graffiti artist makes a point ( you'd have to ask them what that point is above and beyond what is written).

I should imagine the whole lot will be gone very soon if it hasn't already - fuss over not much.