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Broad-Brushing and Yellow Wallpaper

With all that preface and hopefully setting of the stage, let us turn directly and thoroughly to matters concerning Aimee Byrd and Genevan Commons. The optics are intentionally made bad for those in Genevan Commons. Pictures do paint a thousand words, for good or ill. When they are out of context and distorted, they can paint a thousand lies, half-truths, to put forward and enable a pernicious doctrine. That’s why images are powerful. That’s why memes are so effective. And we use a lot of memes in Genevan Commons to make some serious points, but also to laugh and have a good time, and get this, to further make an important point. This is why the Babylon Bee can do so much with a humorous yet devastatingly accurate headline working in concert with a powerful picture. Politicians, actors, and even atheists will share their satire, while progressives and others who are generally thin-skinned will try to get them canceled or considered hate speech. So even if Genevan Commons was tagged as ...