…politics have no place in funtime…
…minus porn…
…NOT appropriate to imply club members should or shouldn’t have fun however they damn well please.
Whoa. I think you’re the only one in this conversation who’s trying to proscribe how others have fun? You just did it twice right there! Not just “implying”, either – asserting.
Maybe you should take a few deep breaths and re-read the discussion so far. I should leave it at that, since I’m not seeing where you read a threat to your fun – can you quote it for me? – so I’m really not sure what, specifically, you’re saying “no” to.
But I get the impression you’re telling us not to have this conversation at all. Or to only use yellow figs? Can’t agree to either, so I’ll respond in a bit more detail.
I’m pretty sure we were not talking about prescribing or proscribing how to have fun – at least, I wasn’t – but rather about the message(s) presented by our art, and in particular by the club’s public-facing displays. A display may be sending “political” messages whether we build them in deliberately or not; our community is multiracial whether or not you care to discuss the politics of that. Minifigs may be 99.9% “yellow” but it’s not 100% and that creates possibilities art can explore. Personally I don’t do much “political” art, or talk about politics much, but I think a certain amount of mindful inquiry and discussion around such issues is appropriate for us as responsible public artists.
I would certainly hope it’s possible for a build to include multiple colors of minifigs without that being a “political” statement so extreme that it “has no place” in what we do. And I believe that we can have a mature discussion about the cultural impact of minifig colors without it devolving into some kind of hurtful political argument that would, indeed, have no place here. I intend to continue having fun in both these ways.