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    Is this chair racist ?


    Chelsea football club owner Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's partner has sparked an internet firestorm after an online magazine published a photo of her sitting on a chair made to resemble a half-naked black woman

    'This is incredibly racist,' Organizing for Women's Liberation tweeted Monday, after news of the unbelievable picture spread.
    In the image, the Moscow-born 32-year-old, wearing a crisp white shirt buttoned nearly to the top and blue jeans, perches on an extremely life-like black mannequin who is naked save for a pair of leather-look black panties, a dominatrix-style belt, elbow length gloves and knee-high boots.
    The dummy is laying on her back with her knees bent and a cushion, which Zhukova is sitting on, is balanced on her bottom.

    Her neck is propped up off the floor uncomfortably, as if she is straining to look at her master, and her amble, naked bosom is pressed provocatively against her body.
    Zhukova, staring at the camera, appears the complete opposite of the black woman she's weighing down.

    Zhukova's publicist blasted the use of the image on MLK day and said her client has a strong record of promoting diversity. She said it was 'regrettable' that the image of the chair by Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard had been used on such a sensitive day by the blog, and pointed out that such a use took the work completely out of contex
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    It's weird, but racist ? No

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    upyerbumivich traded his ex for that. makes sense, after all, his ex's mum warned her off him back in the 90s - he looked like a scanky bum then and still does now.

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    Has it got a coffee cup holder?

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    It's a great piece of art. It looks very life-like from this angle.

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    If a bloke was sitting on it, would it be sexist?

    I don't like it, makes my skin crawl, but like most art, I guess it's subjective as to its meaning.

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    Some may call it art!

    I don't, it's not necessary.

    Debasing, belittling even comes to mind, but the world seems
    to be extremely nonchalant in general terms regarding standards
    and levels of decency.

    It's a pity.

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    It"s a great fcking position, that's for sure...I'd like to see it from all angles...

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue
    Bjarne Melgaard
    Early in his career Melgaard created controversial installations referencing subversive subcultures such as S&M and heavy metal music

    .........

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    Was done in the sixties using a white woman.

    Used in A Clockwork Orange too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore
    Was done in the sixties using a white woman. Used in A Clockwork Orange too.
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    Russian gallerist Dasha Zukhova sparks race row over "degrading" chair

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    It wouldn't fit in with my decor.

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    Will be comfier sitting on a big black mama's bootylicious ass yo than some bony-ass chinese bint - so the choice is functional not racist.

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    To me it looks like she's about to set light to a fart.

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    If the chair was white, would it be racist?

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    ^ Not necessarily- but it would be better padded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    In the image, the Moscow-born 32-year-old, wearing a crisp white shirt buttoned nearly to the top and blue jeans, perches on an extremely life-like black mannequin
    Well that's disappointing, couldn't they use a real one?

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    Wonderful.
    I can now fill the house with live size inflatable dolls with real hair and penetrable orifices and say that it's art.

    Can I order online?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thetyim
    Can I order online?
    A sofa perhaps ?

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    An art expert shows off his collection of fine art .


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    Furniture cannot be racist; the chair is an inanimate object and thus cannot form an opinion.

    It could be argued that the creator was merely making art and offering the Public cause for thought.

    Then we must examine the motives of someone who purchases the chair. If a black man were to sit in the chair presumably he would be accused of being sexist. A white person would possibly be accused of having racist motives.

    Alternatively they may be tired of it all and just want to sit down. I don't see this one being popular in the White House somehow.
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    America’s Obsession with the Racist Within

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    Racism has become an indisputable fact of the universe. When everything else is in doubt, racism isn’t. It can’t be.

    America is racist. Just look at Segregation, the Trail of Tears and whatever happened last week that is already being analyzed on Salon, broken down at Atlantic Wire, trending on Twitter, spun on Think Progress and then chewed and digested by the slower eaters on CNN, MSNBC and the surviving outposts of the print media.

    Everyone and everything is racist. When the racism microscope is turned on or a racism signal is beamed to the giant orbiting racism satellite launched last week by that fortress of white extraterrestrial privilege, NASA, or a special racism submersible is dropped into the ocean, their enhanced analytical powers reveal that racism is everywhere in America.

    That may seem unlikely to anyone who actually travels to any of the places in the world that still have slavery. They are much less concerned with media images of black people over in Mauritania which still has slavery. There’s not a lot of interest in white privilege over in Sudan, where actual genocide is still taking place. And if you get a chance, stop by Papua, where Obama’s friendly Indonesian step-folks are still killing black people.

    But that’s actual racism. We don’t have real racism. What we have are cashiers writing insulting things on receipts, landlords who occasionally prefer not to rent to black people and the occasional drunken idiot who starts shouting slurs at a black man. It’s not exactly up there with genocide, but fortunately the racism industry has supplemented it by denouncing every movie and television show ever made and every police or even non-police shooting involving a black man as racist.

    A hundred years ago educated people subjected themselves to psychoanalysis sessions which proved conclusively that their fear of heights was caused by wanting to kill their fathers and rape their mothers. And if you didn’t dabble in some amateurish psychoanalysis, the intellectual elites of New York or Chicago wouldn’t even bother sneering in your direction.

    These days racism is the new psychoanalysis. Educated people check their privilege and discover that they are the reincarnation of Simon Legree. They are horrified to find that they take it for granted that people in movies look like them and talk like them. They gasp as they realize that they actually manage to get through the day without thinking about race and weep in shame as they are told that black people are constantly thinking about race and their failure to do the same thing is a form of privilege that makes them no better than Jefferson Davis or Archie Bunker.

    Black people don’t actually spend all their time being racially conscious, much as factory workers in the 19th century didn’t actually go around being class conscious all the time. That was just one of the things that Marxists successfully convinced the eagerly guilty elites of. About the only people who do spend all their time viewing everything through a toxic prism of race are MSNBC analysts, and like prostitutes and people who test dangerous cosmetics on rabbits; they only do it because they’re paid to.

    Our search for racism has become an inner spiritual search for the racist within. The new racism is an unawareness of racism, which says all that there is to say about the prevalence of this terrible threat. When the biggest issue with racism is that not enough people are constantly thinking about it, then the real problem is that there isn’t a problem.

    That candidly sums up the state of American racism, which is a problem searching for a problem. But that is different than the state of American race relations, which is characterized by suspicion, irritation, guilt and occasional explosions carefully stirred up and set off by an entire field of professional provocateurs in academia and the media.

    One of the greater fallacies of racism is to assume that it equates to race relations. It does not. The problem of racism involved the way that governments and people behaved toward each other. That’s different than how people see each other. That form of racism, like the monsters that began pouring out of the brains of patients lying cushioned on the psychoanalyst’s couch, is not something that we can or should be dealing with.

    America works pretty well when it comes to the unofficial form of race-relations that involves people working and living together without killing each other. It would work even better without a racism industry whose entire reason for existence is to turn racism into the thing that we should always be talking about and always be conscious of at any time of the day.

    Racial consciousness is grievance consciousness. Take any members of two ethnic groups with an ugly history and tell them that they constantly need to think about those old grudges and discover how those grudges lead to them being mistreated in the present and you would have the same perfect storm of outraged entitlement, racial paranoia and grievance theater that you do now with race relations.

    America does not have a racism problem. It has a problem obsessing about racism. The obsession isn’t black or white, it comes out of the ranks of academics and activists who use it to disrupt society while profiting from the havoc. The Trayvon Martin case is only one of countless cases dug up and deployed by the racism industry to maintain this perpetual consciousness of grievance at the expense of social harmony.

    Grievances don’t go away when you constantly demand an absolute justice that no human being is equipped to provide. They go away when you let go of the grievances and try to live together. It may seem easier for white people to say that, but reducing the complex mix of identities and histories of the vast majority of the population, many with their own histories of oppression, to “white people” is exactly the kind of facile unthinking bigotry that the racism industry cultivates.

    America is a second chance. Not a place to forget who you are, but a place to discover who you might have become without that historical boot on your chest. That’s not what it always was, but that’s what it is today. It suffers from social dysfunction, but it is probably the least racist place in the world. Like its technological and cultural achievements, this social achievement is buried under a million tons of hate, denial and venom from a left that exists only to undermine America.

    There is no bright future waiting for those who choose to become collaborators in fulfilling the self-fulfilling prophecies of the Anti-American left. The very cynicism and pessimism embodied in that worldview, the certainty of failure implicit in its obsession with racial consciousness, is pregnant with their doom. The morass of Detroit, the miasma of Newark and the wreck of Oakland isn’t the labor of white racism; it’s that same self-fulfilling prophecy that too many in the black community have chosen to collaborate in bringing about.

    Faith in nothing but the power of racism leads to a hopeless future.


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    I can see how it can be construed as racist. A white woman sitting on a chair with a black woman holding it up...and on Martin Luther day.

    Art in any form can be construed in different ways by people's judgements and beliefs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mathos
    Debasing, belittling even comes to mind, but the world seems
    to be extremely nonchalant in general terms regarding standards
    and levels of decency.
    Yep..
    Yet, on the other hand, people have become super politically correct and afraid to offend anyone.

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