By not holding the Obama administration's feet to the fire on the waivers, reformers have ceded plenty of
moral and intellectual
high ground, essentially promoting the very soft bigotry of low expectations that they declare they
oppose.
Some of the artists mine popular culture to produce scathing or defamatory indictments of consumer mores; others take the
moral corruptions of public and political acts as their defamed subject; and others practice détournement — using elements of well - known media to create new work with a different or
opposing message — to elevate injury and injustice into the realm of
high art.