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roachboy · 11-01-2006, 04:48 PM

the problem is that i dont see where it can really go as it is currently framed except into a kind of exercise in self-congratulation.

this goofball contest has been going on for a few months--you can access the cartoons (or alot of them) via the museum in teheran that is hosting the exhibit associated with it (it is probably in the op article, but i dont remember....i looked at the website a while ago,...i assume it is still up)
the point of the exhibition and contest were obviously little more than a fuck you prompted by the western responses to the protests over the danish cartoon thing.
it is a more or less official venture of the iranian government.
so the whole thing (the exhibition, the contest, the article you bit for the op) operate within a series of specific and very strange political contexts, which are at this point fairly complicated (and which obviously have alot to do with the various politics about iran)...

so i apologize for the glib post from earlier--everyone gets a few alloted them i think--tick one off my list....

it is not that the thread is worthless, but it could be unless you take account of what surrounds this particular exhibition etc.----but as it stands, the way it is set up, you seem to want to get a sequence of posts talking about what heros of "free speech" folk in the west are....it could be taken in a different direction and could become something else. i should ahve suggested that instead of just being a putz. mea culpa.

11-01-2006, 04:48 PM	#9 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	the problem is that i dont see where it can really go as it is currently framed except into a kind of exercise in self-congratulation. this goofball contest has been going on for a few months--you can access the cartoons (or alot of them) via the museum in teheran that is hosting the exhibit associated with it (it is probably in the op article, but i dont remember....i looked at the website a while ago,...i assume it is still up) the point of the exhibition and contest were obviously little more than a fuck you prompted by the western responses to the protests over the danish cartoon thing. it is a more or less official venture of the iranian government. so the whole thing (the exhibition, the contest, the article you bit for the op) operate within a series of specific and very strange political contexts, which are at this point fairly complicated (and which obviously have alot to do with the various politics about iran)... so i apologize for the glib post from earlier--everyone gets a few alloted them i think--tick one off my list.... it is not that the thread is worthless, but it could be unless you take account of what surrounds this particular exhibition etc.----but as it stands, the way it is set up, you seem to want to get a sequence of posts talking about what heros of "free speech" folk in the west are....it could be taken in a different direction and could become something else. i should ahve suggested that instead of just being a putz. mea culpa. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 11-01-2006 at 04:53 PM..