An American art museum has demanded that a German far-right political party stop using one of its paintings in campaign material.
AfD, or Alternative for Germany, used the 1866 painting The Slave Market by Jean-Leon Gerome in publicity posters for the European parliament elections.
The painting, which is displayed in the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, depicts slave traders from the Middle East or North Africa inspecting a naked woman with lighter skin.
Posters featuring the painting were put up by the AfD’s Berlin branch with the slogan “So that Europe won’t become Eurabia”.
That seems to be the thing with the offenderati these days – they demand. The response to such demands should always, without fail, be “fuck off.”
Actually, I’m relaxed about this painting being given more exposure. A reminder that it wasn’t only whitey that dabbled in slavery is opportune, I think.
Anyway…
He said he had written to the party “insisting that they cease and desist in using this painting”, but accepted that because of the work’s age it was public domain and that there was no copyright law preventing the image from being used.
So, pointless virtue-signalling then. You cannot demand cease and desist where there is no copyright. And the correct response is to tell you to fuck off.
AfD, which is well know for its anti-Muslim stances, says it will not take the posters down.
Good. Quite right. Now fuck off.
Good for AfD. We should remember which religion of being blown to pieces was responsible for those Barbary slave raids on the English South west coast (Or Baltimore in the USA).
And Baltimore, Ireland.
One small thing that pisses me off is the reference to a “far right” political party. If that’s the case, where are the corresponding “far left” parties? The mainstream media never describes any party as “far left”- they should!
Well yes, especially as many so called far right groups are pretty centrist and moderate while the far left really are on the extreme left.
Carl Benjamin is a centrist who leans leftwards on social issues is apparently “far right” according to these nutters.
“Far right” simply means “disagrees with the Guardian.” Just as “Islamophobia” means daring to criticise Islam. And pointing out that homosexuality is not normal, makes one a “homophobe.” Criticsing feminism makes you a misogynist – even female critics are guilty. Or stating that transwomen are not biological women makes one a “transphobe.” Even if you are a transwoman saying it, you can get prosecuted for hate speech. You see a pattern here…
Most of the so called “Far Right” are actually tediously centrist for my taste. Then again, I’m somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun, so perhaps this is my fault…
If anyone was wondering, yes, Attila the Hun is right wing:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/just-how-right-wing-was-attila-the-hun/238526/
Thoughtless. The painting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave_Market_(Gérôme_painting)
We DEMAND that you stop doing that which you’re legally entitled to do.
Who in God’s name do they think they are?