NJ Student's Artwork Removed From Show.....

[Laxman]

probably for being too realistic. Now that's some fine work from Mr. Shea. I'd say young Liam has a bright future ahead of him.

N.J. school removes painting of porcine President Trump grabbing cat

A Morristown High School student's controversial art project featuring a porcine version of President Donald Trump holding an agitated cat has been removed from the school's annual Art & Design Show amidst complaints.

Liam Shea's other work -- a painting of Trump on a missile taking a selfie -- was also removed, according to a report by MorristownGreen.com. The theme for the show was "America Takes a Selfie."

Shea's mother, Kelly Zeiss Shea, said in a Facebook post she's "overwhelmed" by the support her son's art has received, and posted a copy of the former painting online "because it deserves to be seen."

"Art is meant to provoke. This certainly did just that," she said. "I have always been immensely proud of both my children. This is just one more reason why."

Read the rest here: http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2017/06/nj_school_removes_painting_of_porcine_president_tr.html#incart_river_home

I just need to add that I love the mom's response-Just one more reason for her to be immensely proud of her kids! Now that's some good parenting.

[gopiscrap]

1. Looks fine to me

[ailsagirl]

16. +1000000

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. OK, that's pretty good. Except for the insult to pigs, that is :-P . nt

[ck4829]

3. Yeah, "complaints" as in the kinda thing that if a Muslim said them, the FBI would have been called

[Wawannabe]

4. Censorship as we become Russian eom

[luvMIdog]

9. yep

[workinclasszero]

21. Yup

Must not insult Dear Leader.

Oh the pictures the Reich wing made of president Obama and Michelle when he was in office would turn your stomach but that's different!

[n2doc]

5. Frickin' Snowflake Trumpers

I've seen a hell of a lot more 'controversial' stuff drawn by cartoonists. Mr. Fish, for example. This is well drawn and should not be removed.

[OnDoutside]

6. Morristown never struck me as a hotbed of leftist ideology !

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. True.

I grew up near there.

[OnDoutside]

22. I had the please of some visits to nearby Schering Plough, and used to love taking the drive from

Morristown to Chester.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. How weird, I've never heard of Schering Plough. It sounds pretty beautiful.

I grew up in Westfield.
In Morristown, I remember going to the Ralph Evans skating rink. Ever heard of it?

[OnDoutside]

30. No, I was just a visitor to the area for a while, but

it seemed to be a lovely place to live. SP was in Kenilworth, but I stayed around Morristown.

[BeekeeperInVermont]

33. Isn't Schering-Plough a company?

I thought it was one of the gazillion pharma-type companies that have set up shop in New Jersey.

[OnDoutside]

34. Yes it was, before it merged with Merck.

Based in Madison, Kenilworth and Union, in NJ.

[BeekeeperInVermont]

37. Thought so.

We used to live in N.E. PA and my husband is in the electrician's union; his local merged with the local out of Parsippany, NJ, so he often got called to jobs in NJ. Did not like driving Routes 78 or 80. At one time or other, he worked at all those places when they were being built and I recall that the Merck job lasted a year? longer? He still mentions it now and again.

[OnDoutside]

39. I remember the research building in Kenilworth (back in the 90s)

cost something like $300m to build and fit out.

[heaven05]

7. censorship

of a student by RW hacks.....ameriKKKa the hateful is letting all know just how much......ameriKKKan are terrified they will loose their 'great leader'.......

Bravo young warrior.......

[Orrex]

8. Pig Trump is more attractive than the real thing.

[Momgonepostal]

10. I agree it was a great response from the boy and his Mom

No anger, no defensiveness, supportive of the school's right to make the decision they did. I love that Liam's art has received much more exposure than if it had been accepted into the show.

[bleedinglib]

11. I like refering to

trump as the "Cat Juggler"

[smirkymonkey]

20. "Good Lord, I've Heard About This..."

"Cat juggling!"

"Roll the ugliness!"

[berni_mccoy]

12. Trump Supporters are Snowflakes

[Initech]

28. Yup - they need their safe spaces don't they?

[Vinca]

13. The kid should put it on a t-shirt and sell them.

[Doreen]

15. I would buy one!!!

[juxtaposed]

14. freedom fries from now on.

[dumbcat]

18. I wonder if we would all be cheering this art as

a provocation, and free expression, if it was a picture of Pres Obama as a baboon clutching a white baby doll?

Somehow, I don't think so.

[Motownman78]

24. Exactly

hypocrisy is rampant on both sides.

[dhill926]

32. Pres Obama as a baboon is clearly racist....

this is not. Offensive to his supporters perhaps, but not rising to the level of anything else....

[dumbcat]

41. White pig is OK

Certainly not racist like a baboon. Got it.

It's all OK.

[LanternWaste]

35. I wonder if you're aware that you are conflating actual racism with simple satire?

I wonder if you're aware that you are conflating actual racism with simple satire?

Somehow, I think so...

[dumbcat]

40. OK, I got it

If President Obama was depicted as a pig you would be OK with that.

[BHDem53]

19. Great painting,

although pigs are highly intelligent unlike the pee resident.

[nikibatts]

25. Doesn't this sound a lot like those so-called "Islamic terrorists when they stop portrayals of Moham

We are entering the abyss.

[rateyes]

26. What about that? A pig

grabbing a pussy. Sounds about right.

[aikoaiko]

27. Are they selling prints? They should. I'd buy one.

Good work Liam.

[Henry Krinkle]

29. NJ schools seem to have a 1A/free speech problem.

Teen's Trump T-shirt censored in yearbook photo

WALL, N.J. — Grant Berardo couldn't vote for Donald Trump last year, but the Wall Township High School junior certainly could wear a T-shirt with his name on it.

Or so he thought.

With his parents' permission, Grant took his school pictures wearing a navy blue Trump campaign shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Make America Great Again."

But when Grant, 17, flipped to the yearbook page with his picture, he was shocked: Instead of the campaign shirt he wore that day, he was shown in a nondescript black T-shirt.

“It was Photoshopped” to remove the Trump message, Grant said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teens-trump-t-shirt-censored-in-yearbook-photo/ar-BBCsaux?li=BBnbfcL

[annabanana]

36. Morristown High School should be ashamed of itself. . .n/t

[snort]

38. Annnnnnnnnnnnd

they just made him rich and famous.