Come down / Get off your fuckin' cross
The sound of knees jerking everywhere.
I can understand that on the face of it at least some of the images appear racist - although it's pretty funny that the Creation Of Adam one is deemed offensive to blacks, since it shows a black man - a black looter, no less - as Adam, which you'd think would annoy the white supremacist Neanderthals before it annoys the Blacks. Clearly she's not familiar with the painting ("the White man ... is clearly being shown as a God" - some deduction there!) and even though Adam (ie Lootie) is black, at the end she infers from the altered painting the suggestion that a White God created white people in his image, which betrays a certain amount of confusion! I also love the fact that she starts off saying "at least [it] shows a White man on high keeping a Black man down..." (my emphasis) as though to say that while it's a solecism to offer a negative portrayal of a black man, a negative depiction of a white man is almost a positive thing. Funnily enough I think most offensive thing to black people on that page is her commentary for picture 8, where she lazily manages to imply that Western culture is white culture (I trust she enjoyed her trip back to the 17th century): I don't see what's so offensive about the black family being "just like the people around them" when all that that entails is going to a fucking fairground with the family. Is eating candyfloss and shooting wooden ducks an offensively white thing to do now? Did I miss a meeting? Throw in the fabulously patronising, smarter-than-thou tone ("it’s hard for the Majority group to see racism or subordination") and I'm about ready to find her just as offensive as the one or two genuinely racist pictures.
I can understand that on the face of it at least some of the images appear racist - although it's pretty funny that the Creation Of Adam one is deemed offensive to blacks, since it shows a black man - a black looter, no less - as Adam, which you'd think would annoy the white supremacist Neanderthals before it annoys the Blacks. Clearly she's not familiar with the painting ("the White man ... is clearly being shown as a God" - some deduction there!) and even though Adam (ie Lootie) is black, at the end she infers from the altered painting the suggestion that a White God created white people in his image, which betrays a certain amount of confusion! I also love the fact that she starts off saying "at least [it] shows a White man on high keeping a Black man down..." (my emphasis) as though to say that while it's a solecism to offer a negative portrayal of a black man, a negative depiction of a white man is almost a positive thing. Funnily enough I think most offensive thing to black people on that page is her commentary for picture 8, where she lazily manages to imply that Western culture is white culture (I trust she enjoyed her trip back to the 17th century): I don't see what's so offensive about the black family being "just like the people around them" when all that that entails is going to a fucking fairground with the family. Is eating candyfloss and shooting wooden ducks an offensively white thing to do now? Did I miss a meeting? Throw in the fabulously patronising, smarter-than-thou tone ("it’s hard for the Majority group to see racism or subordination") and I'm about ready to find her just as offensive as the one or two genuinely racist pictures.

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