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Whither Right-Wing Art?

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Ben Sixsmith
Nov 08, 2023
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“Right-wingers don’t make good art.” It’s a take that passes through the discourse every now and then almost as reliably as the sun passes across the sky. Hell, I remember arguing with Graham Linehan about it long before he fell out with the left.

There are two classic points. One of them is that right-wingers don’t have “empathy” — an ironic claim, in t…

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