NAU removes student art print depicting Charlie Kirk's murder
After far-right activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in September, right-wing social media accounts came after professors, reporters and everyday residents if they dared to criticize Kirk’s legacy. A sober accounting of Kirk’s controversies was viewed as glorifying the Turning Point founder’s death, and right-wing shit-stirrers like LibsofTikTok eagerly went after anyone who committed such a sin.
LibsofTikTok — the X account run by provocateur Chaya Raichik — is at it again, though this time she might have a point. On Tuesday, the account posted a photo of a print that it claimed was “spotted at an ‘art exhibit’” at Northern Arizona University. The print featured the words “Cowa Bummer” and shows a white silhouette that is clearly Kirk spewing blood from his neck. The trajectory of the bullet is marked with a swastika.
The post quickly sparked outcry, with social media users calling the print “disgusting” and “horrific.” It wasn’t all hate. Arizona’s top parody political account, The Real Thelma Johnson, gave the artist kudos, writing, “That’s a pretty good silk screen.”
NAU spokesperson Kim Ann Ott told Phoenix New Times that the print wasn’t part of a university exhibit. Rather, it was displayed in a “temporary, student-selected” art exhibit and “has since been removed,” she wrote in an email.
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-university-removes-student-artwork-depicting-kirks-murder-40626048/
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Oh my heavens!
It's this generation's "Piss Christ"!!
*clutches pearls*
Image of the print at link, if you care.
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