Take your time and see if you can spot all of the references to LGBT ideology and potentially sinister imagery in the following mural out of Grant Middle School in Grant, Michigan. No cheating!
Give up? Per NPR:
The mural features caped characters, bunny- and bear-headed nurses and smiling students dressed in brightly colored outfits. One student is wearing a blue T-shirt with pink and white stripes — colors found on the transgender flag. Another student is outfitted in shorts overalls with a rainbow-striped T-shirt and tights underneath. Parents have said that the rainbow stripes represent the colors of the pride flag. Two other students are dressed in tops with colors of the bisexual flag — pink on the top, royal blue on the bottom and an overlapping purple stripe in the middle.
Among the drawings of the students, the artist added multiple smaller line drawings, including a mask, which some parents have complained is Satan, and a hamsa hand, which is considered a symbol for the hand of God in many cultures, but in this case, some adults have claimed it is a symbol of witchcraft.
You cleaning your glasses after missing all that stuff:
The painter, meanwhile, disputed some of the characterizations:
The teen artist attempted to allay parents' fears about her work and her intentions.
"I put my artwork up there to make people feel welcomed," she said in a quivering voice.
Responding to adults' accusations that she schemed to include sinister images, she said, "That's not what I'm a part of. That's not what I'm trying to put out there."
The student explained that the so-called Satan mask is a character from a video game and that the painted hand is a Latino symbol of protection. She eventually left the meeting in tears.
Well, you don't want to see a teenager cry. And what she's saying about the symbols could very well be true. But of course the rest of the artwork is fraught with LGBT ideology; it's not at all a neutral painting; it is advancing a very specific (and very not-good) worldview.
