Ok foxy, so what's your view on this:

On the front page of the ABC web site at the moment is a link to this article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-09/apy-artist-betty-muffler-painting-heal-country-naidoc/100271288
The heading of the story is "How APY artist Betty Muffler uses painting as a means to heal country". And in body of the article it makes mention to how this artwork can "heal". For example: "That motion of moving across the work has actually got the power to heal, because, of course as a ngangkari, she has mara ala, she has open hands, her hands are taking that power from her body. And that power is being placed along that canvas."

Now clearly this, according to modern scientific theories, is a complete load of BS. So do you think she should be allowed to say this? And should the ABC publish an article like this?

Entitled yes and, obligated to keep it to yourself if you have no integrity !

Good Morning thinkabit,

Do you realize that it is NAIDOC Week?

NAIDOC celebrates the history, culture, and
achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people and it runs from 4th July until
11th July. Betty Muller is an Aboriginal artist
and famous for her beautiful work. The ABC is
featuring her work during this week. It is
appropriate to do so.

Thinkabit

You are most certainly allowed to express your opinion on the aboriginal-myths and frauds. No need to ask Foxy.

As for her baloney about 'I have a right to my opinion'" is something that a person usually states when they're attempting to reject objections to their argument",' I don't know of an instance where that has occurred on OLO, or anywhere else. Most people don't feel the need to claim a right that they know they have; they just express their opinions in the knowledge that most people other than the few Foxys of this world accept diverse opinions as part of human discourse, no matter what they think of those opinions.

I note that she has now turned 'opinion' into 'argument'. Foxy is an argument junky who will argue until the cows come home; that's why she sets up her little inquisitions, asking for OUR OPINIONS, which she believes some of us don't have the right to express, strangely enough: then she can regale us with reasons why she is 'right' and everyone but the other TWO people who hang onto her every word are 'wrong'. Foxy is a 'useful idiot' for her Marxist heroes, so totally convinced of her virtue that only prolonged professional help would see her face up to her unawareness of her lack of comfortable socialisation with her peers.

ttbn has again proven my point. He's using a last ditch that
attempts to rescue his position by defending his right to
hold an opinion no matter how ill-founded or wrong that
opinion might be. And he thinks that he can accomplish this
by hurling insults. Unfortunately for the forum -
ttbn will always have something to say
and nothing to contribute.

thinkabit,

I likewise was rather intrigued by the story about this artist. I think it's important that these type of stories are told so that we can remained appraised of just how gullible certain sections of society have become in this post-enlightenment era.

Seriously, these people believe that this woman is able to transfer this fictional power from her body onto the canvas and then have that spread around as the canvas moves around. We need to know that there is this element in our culture that is so removed from the modern world that they are beyond help. So in that regard the ABC does a service, in its own credulous manner.

Little wonder that the close the gap mantra fails when we have some segment of the community that think that canvas has healing powers.

To be clear, art can carry its own form of power. When I first saw the 'Mona Lisa' in the flesh, so to speak, I had an emotional reaction to it that I found surprising. But never did I think it'd cure my haemorrhoids.

Equally when I saw 'Blue Poles' I thought it was a stretch to call it art, let alone great art. More in the realms of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' where the woke are supposed to see things that aren't there.

This 'art' from this 'artist' is in that genre.

So yes I think the ABC should publish this stuff. But not for the reasons they or the woke elite imagine.