Friday, March 20, 2020
The Scheming Hypocrites in the Culture War
‘Just another pro-communist authoritarian clique of pampered buffoons.
...Now I’ll tell you what I really think:
I recently opened a Zazzel account for selling designs on T-shirts and bumper stickers, etc. I concocted a design depicting a virus with a hammer and sickle on it. The caption was, “Political Correctness Kills...the Wuhan China Communist Party Virus.” I had used open source stock images that did not require permission for use. None the less, Zazzel deleted my image, telling me,that it infringed on copywrite rules. Fine...I made my own image from scratch photographing a small children’s “sticky ball” which looks vaguely like a virus. I then superimposed a photo I had taken of a communist party medal from my collection of historical artifacts. The images had no relationship to copywritten material. I then put the same caption as before.
This image was deleted by Zazzel also. This time — not being able to use the phony “copywrite” excuse — I was told that, “[the] Design contains content that is not suitable for printing on Zazzle and/or Zazzle’s brand partners.” Oh, really? And what exactly was “unsuitable?”
Clincher: a screen shot of other images approved for the Zazzel site as being “suitable”
Personally, I’m really getting sick of virtually every institution in the western world that dabbles in cultural expression, common or otherwise, using their communication venues to express scorn on people like the current president and sympathy for authoritarian communism in all its guises.
Disgusting.
