^THIS
If they turned all the billboards to canvasses for arts/crafts, it would be a different atmosphere than the advertisers trying to out-shout or out-manipulate each other.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 22 Jan 2022, 23:05,
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Cardiff has a few murals like this
They're not usually trying to make a point. This particular one is in Butetown, 'Tiger Bay', probably Wales' least white area that has been either demonised or ignored at various times as a result. People who live there seem to like the mural.
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If it brightens the place up and people are okay with it.
I'm uncomfortable with overtly political murals though.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:31,
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The political murals in Yorkshire are the worst
Ayup the ‘RA
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 0:42,
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Those people who do their own home improvements.
The Provisional DIY
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Varmint, Sun 23 Jan 2022, 20:36,
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I don't think it's particularly political
People from Cardiff of different politics don't seem to have had a problem with it, but /links can find the politics in anything.
At worse it's probably a bit of an empty platitude. I think the local outrage also ties in with a broader feeling in Cardiff that anything a community likes, industrial heritage etc, inevitable gets steamrollered by developers.
Was the 'soulless' in your title accidental then? I thought maybe it was a pun on soul crew.
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No, purely, someone blanking out her image with yellow paint looked horrific.
It can be read as a govt sponsored PC diversity message or as a threat to the white working class culture of Britain!!! *cue flag waving, spitfires overhead, Elgar, etc*.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 23 Jan 2022, 1:06,
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