# Why do Trump and other "conservatives" want to defund opera and other arts?

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**Created:** [April 7, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-trump-and-other-conservatives-want-to-defund-opera-and-other-arts/783963 "2017-04-07T08:32:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-trump-and-other-conservatives-want-to-defund-opera-and-other-arts/783963/110 "2017-04-08T05:06:51Z")

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> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#):
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> That’ll earn you a warning, Ditka. We’ve previously discussed that such terms should be avoided.

I apologize for first using the objectionable term in the thread. I regret that **Ditka** was warned for, in effect, quoting me, _I ask that the Warning be rescinded_. I think his use, like mine, was in playful jest.

FWIW, at this point I’m happy to wear the objectionable term as a source of pride! “Right-winger,” OTOH, is intended as a nasty pejorative when I use it — perhaps I should be warned when I use that term.

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