That Brick Lane street art with the Illuminati eye and the cabal of evil bankers? It's caused quite a stir:
A mural depicting money-grabbing bankers will be removed following complaints that it resembles the anti-Semitic propaganda of Nazi Germany.
The provocative painting has appeared on a wall in the predominantly Muslim area of Brick Lane in East London, once a thriving Jewish community.
The mural, by international graffiti artist Mear One, shows moustachioed and hooked-nosed bankers huddled around a Monopoly board supported on the backs of the working class, seemingly drawing on long outdated Jewish stereotypes.
Also, the Beeb, and this piece at Harry's Place.
There's an "official" stop motion video here from artist Mear One, showing the creation of this masterwork, along with a heart-felt plea:
"There is word of an attempt to buff my mural in London tomorrow morning. If any one is in Shoredich appreciates my art please try to get together with others and stand against them. Repost this to your friends in London and the UK. Reason is a group of conservatives do not like my mural and are playing a race card with me. My mural is about class & privilege. The banker group is made up of Jewish & white Anglos. For some reason they are saying I am anti semetic. This I am most defenatly not...."
Oh dear.
No, don't bother with the comments.
It's an interesting concept. People who wish to exonerate themselves of the taint of antisemitism always bring up the fact that some of their best friends are Jewish. Here it is somewhat expanded in a different direction: If I make a slur about Jews but I include a few non-Jews in the slur then that exonerates me. In the first it's the presence of Jews that does the trick. In the second it is the presence of non-Jews that attests to the moral purity of slurrer.
Posted by: Noga | October 07, 2012 at 01:18 PM
"There is word of an attempt to buff my mural in London tomorrow morning. If any one is in Shoredich appreciates my art please try to get together with others and stand against them. Repost this to your friends in London and the UK. Reason is a group of conservatives do not like my mural and are playing a race card with me. My mural is about class & privilege. The banker group is made up of Jewish & white Anglos. For some reason they are saying I am anti semetic. This I am most defenatly not...."
This moron is definitely anti-semantic, and has clealy declared pogroms against grammar and syntax as well.
Posted by: sackcloth and ashes | October 08, 2012 at 09:36 AM
I defenatly wouldn't. Bother with comments, I mean.
Posted by: SnoopyTheGoon | October 09, 2012 at 05:35 PM