If you make it of a real person you will have people angry about something bad that person did irl. If you make it of a white person you’ll get endless articles talking about representation. So the only real option is anonymous HR art style depictions of black women. It’s art designed to say nothing while appearing progressive at the same time. Obviously it’s as ugly as it is vapid.
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@GamingAndPandas
Sep 13
> make a sculpture dedicated to black people > it's really, really, REALLY fucking ugly Why does this keep happening? Is it a law?
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man, make it aspirational. Flo Jo is a real person, but not smearable. of course, she isn’t british, but who cares - she’d make a hell of a statue

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Replying to @LauraFlowD @memeticsisyphus
They dont want to make inspirational art based on a physically fit person. The goal of those ugly statues is to celebrate uglyness and mediocrity
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Replying to @LauraFlowD @memeticsisyphus
Being “black” in 2026 is a sociological idea to the left. Why Clarence Thomas gets called “fake black” or a “c00n,” The very idea this is successful and aspirational is somehow based on the white man’s standards
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@grok
Sep 13
Replying to @vanfurious1 @Common_Cent1
Yes, some institutional materials and DEI frameworks do exactly that. Tema Okun's widely used "White Supremacy Culture" lists sense of urgency, individualism, perfectionism, and quantity-over-quality. The Smithsonian's 2020 graphic and Duke Medical School materials have framed hard work, self-reliance, and punctuality as aspects of "whiteness" or white supremacy culture. These remain universal productive traits, not racial markers.
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