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« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2012, 10:31:26 PM »

 Crazy This is just so bizarre and wrong.
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« Reply #16 on: April 18, 2012, 05:25:51 AM »

WHAT.THE.HELL?Huh???! Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap Crap

Why?  Why?  Why?  Why did the artist feel the need to express his thoughts about female genital mutilation by creating a racist cake?  What the eff? 

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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2012, 07:16:58 AM »

That is profoundly disturbing indeed. Why hasn't this woman been sacked?
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« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2012, 02:22:12 PM »

I love how she claims the entire incident was 'misinterpreted'. IMO that's another way of saying 'I apologize to those who are too uncool & hip to understand the art'.

Other than that I really don't have words. It's rare anymore that something truly shocks me but this did. That Minister should be sacked by the end of the week IMO.
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« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2012, 02:35:24 PM »

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« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2012, 06:58:37 PM »

time warp going on...  Crap

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« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2012, 03:13:18 PM »

FYI - the cake baker is Swedish/African, and this is his way of getting attention to female circumcision that takes place in Africa (and now here) and is meant as a protest against racism! The minister won't be sacked, she was asked by the artist to do this. As for feeding the woman with the cake - it's actually the artist head and it was a part of the art project. He was the one who screamed as if in pain and it took the people in the museum by surprise. Then he asked the minister to feed him with a piece of the cake. It only looks as if it's one big cake. The Afro-Swedish association have previously reported an ice-cream for being racist, an African-Swedish artist for her show (she used the word nigger about herself) and now they claim that Linde is a racist because he baked a cake to protest against racism Crazy

This is what the artist said:

"Neither my cake nor the cultural minister are racists. A feeling of disgust spreads through me as I'm compared with Breivik or my art is called racist. Ridiculous. It's not. I'm not racist..." He also defended the visitors.

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« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2012, 03:24:02 PM »

Not sure I'd call his work "racist". But "hideous" works.
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« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2012, 03:29:42 PM »

Not sure I'd call his work "racist". But "hideous" works.

Agreed  Yes it looks like a weird version of barbapapa and mama  Confused

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« Reply #24 on: April 30, 2012, 06:44:10 PM »

Not sure I'd call his work "racist". But "hideous" works.

Agreed  Yes it looks like a weird version of barbapapa and mama  Confused




OMG Idun....century-flashback  Star That was one of my favourite show growing up  Blush

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