Post by Professor Cold Heart on May 25, 2010 12:50:55 GMT -5
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She starts off by describing a hospital which contains murals illustrating fairy tales (gorgeous paintings, by the way- the post's worth a read for that alone) before suddenly spiralling into Daily Mail mode:
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Kind of interesting to see a fuss that is, quite literally, over something that hasn't happened.
She starts off by describing a hospital which contains murals illustrating fairy tales (gorgeous paintings, by the way- the post's worth a read for that alone) before suddenly spiralling into Daily Mail mode:
The Princess and the Pea (above - so sensitive was the princesses fair skin she could feel the hard pea despite all the mattresses - not very PC that is it?)
Of course, it would not be permissible now to decorate the walls of a public building with such images, for they are far too European, the children and fairies in them are too rosy cheeked, their lips too red and, most damningly their skin is too white.
When such projects are undertaken today the inclusion of diversity and multiculturalism would be mandatory. No matter that the structure is in England, nothing must be permitted to reflect the ancient native English culture unfettered by the alien and imported ones. Were anything resembling those walls to unveiled today, not only would the shrieks of “EWWW migh God, it's soowe disgustingly WHITE!!” be heard from Belsize Park to Dulwich, but the authorities would probably become involved, and someone would be prosecuted.
Little Red Riding hood would be unlikely to get passed the censors, she would be found guilty of stereotyping those famously gentle and vegetarian creatures, wolves, whilst Jack the Giant Killer would be banned for certain on account of heightism. Babes in the Wood might just be okay, although the malevolence of the white villains, the nasty uncle and his underlings, might be exaggerated while the babes themselves would probably end up mixed race.
Jack and Jill would probably be one of the few Nursery Rhymes to make it through on account of the fact that it is the clumsy white male who falls and breaks his crown, whilst Jill's “tumbling” would become clever athletics which enable the smart (now Muslim feminist) Jill to avoid the same fate as her inferior male counterpart.
Or maybe they would insist on some contemporary fairy tales, and we would be confronted by little Sayyid and his designer suicide belt, the enchanting Isha with the burka that doubled as a time machine, and brave Julius who sang a special song to make all the naughty white people disappear.
You say I jest yet the sad fact is you know that panels such as those which decorate the walls of the old St Thomas's hospital South Wing would not be allowed in any publicly funded building built in Britain today... a Channel 4 documentary would be made about racism in design and maybe even questions would be asked in Parliament ("I call upon my honourable friend, the minister for cultural reassignment, to share my outrage at the saddening and lamentable lack of new order approved diversity in the design of .......")
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It almost makes me wonder if these need to be taken down and hidden to protect them lest some iconoclast destroy them.
...the degradation of art as part of Common Purpose, aimed at dismantling British identity.
Why not run a competition for real young British artists? The BNP should call for submissions.
Kind of interesting to see a fuss that is, quite literally, over something that hasn't happened.