Racist Countryside Art

[Brainster]

Gotta love the woke; they are constantly on the alert for new causes. The latest is the racism stirred up by paintings of the English countryside:

The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark “nationalist feelings”.

The museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, has undertaken an overhaul of its displays, in a move that its director insisted was not “woke”.

The new signage states that pictures of “rolling English hills” can stir feelings of “pride towards a homeland”.

However, in a gallery displaying a bucolic work by Constable, visitors are informed that “there is a darker side” to the “nationalist feeling” evoked by images of the British countryside.

It states that this national sentiment comes with “the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong”.

I do love the insistence that this is not "woke"; apparently even the wokerattti know to avoid that description.

 

[Norman Alexander]

Most sensible people avoid that description because it is vague as fog and means effectively nothing. It's just the past tense of "wake".

 

[Vixen]

Gotta love the woke; they are constantly on the alert for new causes. The latest is the racism stirred up by paintings of the English countryside:



I do love the insistence that this is not "woke"; apparently even the wokerattti know to avoid that description.

This seems to hark back to the nazi notions of 'blood and soil', which is a shame because people can feel passion for their land without being racist about it. I have literally kissed the ground myself with my heart stirring with a passionate love of the place, which could be seen by some as patriotic fervour.

Cambridge Uni seem well-meaning and it's good they are reevaluating their assumptions about oil paintings, even though this seems a little silly.

 

[PitPat]

This seems to hark back to the nazi notions of 'blood and soil', which is a shame because people can feel passion for their land without being racist about it. I have literally kissed the ground myself with my heart stirring with a passionate love of the place, which could be seen by some as patriotic fervour.
Cambridge Uni seem well-meaning and it's good they are reevaluating their assumptions about oil paintings, even though this seems a little silly.

That is kind of weird. We live on a planet. Kissing dirt.


It's not a geographical thing. It's a people thing. Nonetheless I get your point.

 

[Darat]

Gotta love the woke; they are constantly on the alert for new causes. The latest is the racism stirred up by paintings of the English countryside:



I do love the insistence that this is not "woke"; apparently even the wokerattti know to avoid that description.

Paywalled for me - do you have another source?

 

[Ron Obvious]

The usual sort of self-loathing white British and Europeans are expected to feel these days.

 

[Mojo]

Paywalled for me - do you have another source?

One that isn't the Torygraph, perhaps?

 

[Thermal]

From the OP:

It states that this national sentiment comes with “the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong”.

Not real awfully clear on how they made that connection. Did they just kind of feel that one comes with the other, or take a poll, or what?

 

[Brainster]

Paywalled for me - do you have another source?

Here.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Here.

He’s quoting the word “woke”, not using it unironically.

““I would love to think that there’s a way of telling these larger, more inclusive histories that doesn’t feel as if it requires a push-back from those who try to suggest that any interest at all in [this work is] what would now be called ‘woke’,” Luke Syson told The Telegraph.”

This is a beat-up story.

 

[smartcooky]

Gotta love the woke; they are constantly on the alert for new causes. The latest is the racism stirred up by paintings of the English countryside:



I do love the insistence that this is not "woke"; apparently even the wokerattti know to avoid that description.

Try not to confuse "woke" with "stupid"

Stupid: "A term used by thinking, intelligent people to describe those having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense."

Woke: "A term used by racists and bigots, as a pejorative to describe those people who possess a fully functioning moral compass."

 

[theprestige]

He’s quoting the word “woke”, not using it ironically.

““I would love to think that there’s a way of telling these larger, more inclusive histories that doesn’t feel as if it requires a push-back from those who try to suggest that any interest at all in [this work is] what would now be called ‘woke’,” Luke Syson told The Telegraph.”

This is a beat-up story.

A beat-up story about a beat-up program has a certain symmetry to it.

 

[Darat]

Here.

Thanks, lots of reliance on short quotes. Really need to read the full piece, so far one does get the idea that the usual right wing snow flakes are foaming in the mouth over their own make believe outrage.

I’ll see if I can find the actual interview.

 

[bruto]

Try not to confuse "woke" with "stupid"

Stupid: "A term used by thinking, intelligent people to describe those having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense."

Woke: "A term used by racists and bigots, as a pejorative to describe those people who possess a fully functioning moral compass."

Thanks. I was about to suggest that there is a difference between "woke" and "stupid." Done.

 

[lionking]

Thanks, lots of reliance on short quotes. Really need to read the full piece, so far one does get the idea that the usual right wing snow flakes are foaming in the mouth over their own make believe outrage.

I’ll see if I can find the actual interview.

While I get the idea that the usual left wing apologists keep excusing stupid decisions.

 

[arthwollipot]

Try not to confuse "woke" with "stupid"

Stupid: "A term used by thinking, intelligent people to describe those having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense."

Woke: "A term used by racists and bigots, as a pejorative to describe those people who possess a fully functioning moral compass."

Quoted for truth.

 

[Thermal]

Thanks. I was about to suggest that there is a difference between "woke" and "stupid." Done.

Yet sometimes synonymous:

https://www.wokekindergarten.org/

 

[Orphia Nay]

A beat-up story about a beat-up program has a certain symmetry to it.

What makes you think the program is beat-up?

Brainster quotes: “It states that this national sentiment comes with “the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong”.”

I’d like to see that snippet in its original context.

 

[arthwollipot]

Yet sometimes synonymous:

https://www.wokekindergarten.org/

Not this again.

 

[Thermal]

Not this again.

It's the grift that keeps on giving.