Black Lives Matter artwork in Budapest causes rage among rightist politicians – The Guardian
A Black Lives Matter artwork planned to be installed for two weeks in the ninth district caused quite the outrage among rightwing politicians so much that the sculptor itself is afraid that his work will be destroyed.
The installation that recently won a tender for public art will be one of seven pieces chosen to be on display next spring in the capital, but only this particular one hit the headlines. It will be a one-metre tall sculpture in the colours of the rainbow promoting the BLM movement. It was created by Péter Szalay, who fears it will be destroyed once it is erected, since
rightist parties are already attacking the installation, and it has received threats of demolition.
Commentators on the actual pro-government television threatened to pull it down if it gets installed, while others laughed saying it was an absurdity, wanting to put it out, considering the low number of black people living in Budapest – writes the Guardian.com. Péter Szalay says that “pulling down statues as part of the BLM movement is actually going on in the United States, while here in Hungary the issue inspires the installation of one. It is important to note that the work contains both narratives, making it not directly a BLM propaganda statue. We have to understand it as something that represents all actions that have caused turbulences in the United States.”
The tender was organised by the deputy of the district’s mayor, Dada Suzi, from the Two-Tailed Dog Party. She said she wanted to recreate the traditions of public street arts, for which she thinks the government has little time.
“For Fidesz culture politics is all about historical memories and memorials, it relativises Hungary’s role in the Second World War and paints a picture of us as victims.”- she said.
Gergely Gulyás, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff said back in December that the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States is a racist movement that does not recognise white and black people as equals, which goes against all human rights thinking of the 20th century. Based on this, not those against the sculpture are racist but those who make it happen.
Probably none of these people or politicians considered the fact that the statue is planned to be showcased for only two weeks, not as a permanent part of the district’s decoration.
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Source: theguardian.com
12 Comments
Do not let that ridiculous statue stand for 1 minute. blm is a racist, marxist organization. It was founded on the lie that American police target & kill blacks based on race. It also promotes the idea that more blacks are killed by police than whites. In fact, TWICE AS MANY WHITES ARE KILLED IN THE USA VERSUS BLACKS. If you give the communists an inch, they will take a mile.
The statue is silly. Are black people oppressed in Hungary, certainly not. Did Hungary ever participate in making black people slaves, certainly not. The statue should go to a country where oppression of black people is occurring.
BLM is actually a terrorist organization and anyone, even an artist, that supports terrorism should be in a mental institution for stupid people.
All lives matter, which is the rule of thumb in Hungary. Well done Hungary.
JDS – a small statue that is a temporary exhibit and is not an organisation or a movement. It is a small statue, that’s all. Albeit one that juxtaposes ‘liberty’ with the American slave history. Only communists or neo-fascists would try to prevent freedom of artistic expression. If you object to it that much, don’t go to see it.
Just say not to black lives matter. All lives matter. blacks are not special.
Long live BLM movement. Shame on Fidesz.
I never thought I’d see the day when Hungarians would allow, welcome, a Marxist symbol to be erected anywhere in the country. Please please read the BLM manifesto & who their leader is. She publicly stated she’s a Marxist & the BLM is founded on her beliefs. Do not be sheeps.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/amp/
Sylvike – just as if an author writes a book about Marxism, it does not follow that the author is a marxist, or just as if a painter paints a picture of a horse it does not mean that the artist rides horses. So this small statue is an observation of a social trend. If you are reading more into than that then that is your problem.
Filling a lovely country with thrash should never be encouraged.
Following the shameful, thank God failed, attempt of coup d’etat operated by those pathetic trumpists in Washington, the whole world could see who the terrorists actually are: white supremacists, primitive white people and their ridiculous leader in blonde wig, a bunch of cavemen who think they can change the result of democratic vote by putting up an insurrection. If those thousands thugs had been black people there would have been a massacre and lots of professional racists and haters would have labelled them as terrorists. Now we know who are the actual terrorists: trump and his fanatics, in the U.S. and abroad.
Don’t let that marxist BLM terrorist group into Hungary. Also, the statue celebrates LGBTQ, another group Hungary should not allow.
Mario, you have no idea what actually is happening in America. Your TDS is showing.
Youth brainwashing leftists, destroying families, religion, And culture.
Mario is a clueless idiot and a dangerous demagog beyond help. People like him walled off to facts and only spewing the propaganda and the leftist soundbites of the day. The majority must overwhelm the idiotic message he promulgates!