Word: un-american
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...against violence and pornography is not to be against freedom of expression. Those of us that believe that with freedom comes responsibility are not un-American. Why don't we hear liberal politicians, who presumably do care about kids, proposing concrete alternatives to the admittedly unworkable agenda of the indecency clause? There are alternatives to censorship, but we seldom hear about them...
However, the many Americans who concluded from the 1913 Armory Show that modern art was foreign, perverse and un-American would have found confirmation of that in Stettheimer's guest list: to reach it, you pretty much had to be European or gay, or both. Then you would find your way into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black...
...address militia groups nationwide that advocate violence. "How dare you call yourselves patriots and heroes?" demanded the President. "There is no right to resort to violence when you don't get your way. There is no right to kill people . Those who claim such rights are wrong and un-American...
Jeans have roguish past. They are signifiers of untamed wilderness and rebellious vigor. Tan pants put you in mind of, well, the Ivy League. How exciting is that? It's really east coast WASPs versus the melting pot of the other 45 states. It's downright un-American not to worship the frontier...
...systematic denial of consumer choice [in the public school system] is downright un-American," he said...