XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.simpsons, alt.censorship   
   From: fredp151@gmail.com   
      
   On 3/8/19 2:47 PM, Rhino wrote:   
   > On 2019-03-08 1:25 PM, Neill Massello wrote:   
   >> moviePig  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Not that it matters, of course.  Merely making the gesture is the point.   
   >>>    (No sarcasm.)   
   >>   
   >> Yes. In the Soviet Union, perhaps the most mendacious regime in history,   
   >> they merely airbrushed the unpersoned out of photos, without talking   
   >> about it.   
   >   
   > Airbrushing was just one of the techniques they used. They also:   
   > - used black ink to completely obliterate the person from each physical   
   > copy of the picture   
   > - cut out the offending picture with scissors   
   > - expropriated every copy of the book that they could find from libraries   
   > - etc. etc.   
   >   
   > David King's book, The Commissar Vanishes, gives illustrations of many   
   > of their techniques from King's *immense* collection of these photos (a   
   > quarter million the last time I heard).   
   >   
   >> In modern America, what counts is announcing your shameful   
   >> acts.   
      
   The ancient Egyptians chiseled their persona non-grata right out of the   
   stone.   
   6,000 years, and still going strong!   
   --   
   "An immigrant who achieves the American Dream didn’t steal anything from   
   you or your family. They just wanted it more than you and worked harder   
   than you. And they did it with all the odds stacked against them.  If   
   your life sucks lemons, a wall isn’t going to turn it to lemonade."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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