Blond, blue-eyed, determined sportsmen and women are glaring down from giant billboards in Moscow, promoting a luxury housing complex for the upcoming 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and this has some people worried.
In response to complaints, Doping-Pong, the ad agency that created the campaign, denied claims that their Aryan-like avatars are Nazi-inspired.
When the ads went up, anarchist art collective Voina tweeted of the billboard’s “openly fascist style” and superstar wonderkid designer Artemy Lebedev said it looked both “neo-Hitlerite” and “neo-Stalinist” but, ahem, “creative.” Not helping: Doping-Pong employs an openly ultra-right artist Katya Zashtopik who blogged Hitler a Happy Birthday this year and there are swastikas on some of their other projects.
Granted, if Shepard Fairey can build his career off Soviet Constructivist art, Nazi propaganda art can be visual fodder, but really, guys… With neo-Nazis, skinheads and racist nationalists rioting and spewing hate all over the former USSR, let’s draw a big fat line between acceptable Nazi kitsch and this Aryan ad nonsense.
Anyway, these billboards look tacky.
Fuck yeah! Not a brown thing is sight!
Oh no! Not two white people! It must be anti everything else for sure.
Xenophobia time. Why don’t we just kill whitey and admit that there is blatent racism against white people now? Are we that PC that we stll deny that?
Well, a small group of them invented racism and larger numbers of them bought into it. So it may not be the fairest thing in the world, but you can't exactly complain about it.
Big fuckin' deal
If you lived in Russia or have any idea what "xenophobia" means over there, raise your hand.
“Invented racism”. That’s funny. Tee hee. And the other part of your post esentially says racism is OK in certain situations. Nice! That always ends well. See line below.
Stalin and the Checka would have thrown the two in that poster in the Kolyma for what they look like as well. He was a swarthy Georgian that hated fair skinned folk.
Yes, race is a social construct, and using it to judge a person was introduced to the world by the British. And though racism is never right, in that it is based on a fallacy, the results can't always be complained about. Considering that a group of people in our current society have a significantly higher quality of life as direct result of racist views. My point being that complaining makes you sound like a punk as bitch for crying about some shit that doesn't come close to affecting you the way it affects others.
Look at the two statues in the background. They're both giving the "Nazi salute"
WHITE PEOPLE!!!! YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!