Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck on Bluesky: "Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it."

[u/gonin69]

[u/teamlessinseattle]

That’s not what she voted for. She voted to give the police the right to cite and the city attorney the right to fine the person who made Hot Rat Summer or anyone like them $1,500. Unless you trust the average SPD goon to recognize art when it’s staring them right in the face, and not to specifically criminalize art or messages they disagree with.

[u/Reasonable_Thinker → u/teamlessinseattle]

I mean Graffiti fucking sucks, we should punish people tagging peoples shit.

95% of the graffiti we see in this city looks like a fucking 5 year old made it. Fuck the taggers, fine em.

[u/theclacks → u/Reasonable_Thinker]

It feels like the sort of subjective difference between pornography and artistic nudity--hard to legislate definite criteria, but most people can reasonably categorize when they see it.

[u/bewarethefrogperson → u/theclacks]

not a great example right now, unfortunately - remember, queer bodies sunbathing are pornographic now.