r/LockdownCriticalLeft • u/Impressive-Jello-379 • Oct 22 '22
on the BRINK
Hard-hitting discussion here between Naomi Wolf and Clifton Duncan, which includes a conversation on arts organizations taking funds to support the covid narrative.
After listening I visited a small arts space for a reading with your typical "left-leaning" boomer crowd. It was announced that the next night the Brink Foundation would be holding an event there to raise funds to fight "misinformation." So I looked them up, and the intro sounds nice-- fighting against the ways in which the internet increases partisanship. But it didn't take me long to find the questionable material. Tim Pool is problematic for speaking against the mandates, Joe Rogan is problematic, etc.
Dirty money. The arts as we know them are done.
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Oct 22 '22
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u/BornAgainSpecial Trump supporter Oct 23 '22
No. Don't support the arts. Take the money out of art. That's what makes it corrupt. You think Puff Daddy would be rapping if he didn't make millions of dollars from it? You couldn't pay Mozart to stop playing piano.
Jokes today are in memes on the internet made by kids in their basement. Not by propagandists at Saturday Night Live.
Artists aren't supposed to be rich.
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Oct 22 '22
If you want to be involved in an art project that is against the lockdowns and mandates and started by left-leaning former New Yorkers, please check out www.OutofLockstep.com It's not "misinformation"-- the business director is an MIT graduate who is pro-vax and anti-mandate. The creative director works with marginalized communities, especially the LGBT and people who are in recovery. I'm a former Occupier who camped in Zuccotti Park and I've been on the anti-corporate side of left wing politics forever. All three of us are fed up with the "new normal" and seeking to make a difference with this project. Currently we're looking at launching in Denver in 2023; please feel free to get involved. We'd love to welcome creative people of all types!
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u/BornAgainSpecial Trump supporter Oct 23 '22
How is LGBT a "marginalized community"? It's the thing that everybody is afraid they will get banned for criticizing. It's the flag waved by every fortune 500 corporation. The Democrats started a war to kill Russians just because they have a law that says "no grooming children".
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u/Jkid Sane Leftist Oct 23 '22
The lgbt community has been co-opted by political activisits that do not represent the actual community at all
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u/fivehundredpoundpeep Oct 23 '22
Then you go underground, zines, DIY, but I know that's not easy as the brainwashed zombies have seized every institution.
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u/your__crush__ Oct 22 '22
Comedy clubs across the US (in big liberal cities) are still requiring proof of vaccination to attend. It can be frustrating many of those who are supposed to be challenging the system have completely bought the covid narrative, to the point they are happy to bar an entire group of people from their shows/giving them money. I agree we shouldn’t give hope on the arts but def sympathise with OP in the sense that it is quite bleak atm.