Some bloggers love being provocateurs, meaning that they provoke intense feelings of false devotion and heighten senses of disorientation and delusion. And who is better for delivering your daily dose of provocations than Malkin, who, while being overw…
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]]>It is not being excluded. The message is that racism takes the well known and easily identified shapes we are all familiar with(the puzzle pieces that all easily fit together), but can also manifest in shapes that to do not fit together with what we could normally recognize as racism. Reading a message about Denmark into this is certainly possible, but it seems a bit of a stretch to me.
]]>The poster is also poor because no matter how hard the lego piece tries it could never work with the puzzle pieces. (or visa versa) If you think about it the lego piece isn’t a different piece but a whole different species!
They should have replaced the lego piece with a blue (or some other colored) puzzle piece. Then the puzzle piece could have a chance of fitting in. Sure it would have a different exterior color, but that is okay. Isn’t the point we are all human and even though we may have some differences (eg skin color is an easy to spot difference) we should not exclude or discriminate. By making the other piece blue it would be difficult to say that the blue piece was representative of a particular human race. (If it was yellow, or white, or brown, or red someone might interperate that the poster was about a particular race.) People would concentrate on the simple idea that yes, that blue piece could be included in the whole puzzle and it should be. There wouldn’t be any potentially “hidden agenda” and the message could come across more effectively.
I’m an engineer not a graphic designer or marketing person. If I could think of it then there is no reason that the UN’s highly paid marketing people and graphic designers couldn’t have thought of it and used it. In my mind that clinches it. In my mind that is evidence that they had a not so hidden agenda against the Danes.
The UN is SUPPOSED to take the high road and be a powerful diplomatic force. All I have seen is that they are rife with corruption and nepotism. Time to stop wasting funds on the UN.
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