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Re: Lego disclaimers on sites
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 01:25:09 GMT
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Man, you certainly have a strong oppinion.
I was whimping out with a concervative approach on this topic. I didn't
want to offend anyone.
I'm surprised you didn't get a whole slew of replies (like the on-going
mormon debate on the off-topic group)!
James Powell <wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote in message
news:Fr1v93.52D@lugnet.com...
> > That concentration camp is the STRANGEST model I've ever seen. Actually, • I
> > have to say that the photography and box layout is very well done, but • its a
> > very politically loaded subject. I can see how people in Poland would • have
> > been particularly outraged.
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> Why? He is trying to show the _horror_ of it. I have not been to • Auschwitz,
> but I _will_ go the next time I am in Europe. These sets were ment to be • stark
> reminders of what we can and have done to each other. I have friends who • won't
> speak to me about what they have seen done to other humans, and reminding • the
> rest of the world that "stuff" like that goes on is important. We don't • see it
> every day, and it needs to be kept in the front of peoples minds.
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> > I suppose that the artist was trying to shock the public by mixing • something
> > so benign as LEGO with something so atrocious. It certainly did bring a
> > "paradoxical' feeling to mind when viewing it.
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> I would hardly call it a paradoxical feeling, I was at one and the same
> sickened and heartened by it, heartened that someone had taken the
> time/effort/energy to get it right. I feel that this artist is dead right • in
> what he has created, that to use a childerens toy to do so is no more • offensive
> than anything else is. When you are talking about something that is so
> offensive that it was effectivly banished for 25 years, why is the use of • a toy
> to present artwork on it a bad thing?
>
> LS James Powell
> (and yes, my grandparents were on the UK blacklist...what do you expect • for a
> Liverpool Aux bobby?)
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| (...) Why? He is trying to show the _horror_ of it. I have not been to Auschwitz, but I _will_ go the next time I am in Europe. These sets were ment to be stark reminders of what we can and have done to each other. I have friends who won't speak to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)
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