Moomin character removed from Brooklyn library exhibition after racism concern
A Moomin scholar finds the move “absurd”, arguing that the character Stinky is far from racist and the decision likely reflects a lack of familiarity with the Moomin stories.
Yle News 1.8. 16:34 A Moomin character has been dropped from a major exhibition at Brooklyn Public Library in New York after one of the institution’s supporters raised concerns that the character might be perceived as racist.
“One of their supporters had thought Stinky could be seen as a racist symbol,” said Roleff Kråkström, CEO of Moomin Characters, the company that manages the rights to Tove Jansson’s beloved Moomin universe.
The exhibition, which has drawn a young audience over the summer, features illustrations of Moominvalley characters and details about Jansson’s life and work. But Stinky — known in Finnish as Haisuli — was removed from some of the large mural-style displays in the library, although he still appears in the original books on show.
Kråkström told Yle he was informed of the decision via a short email from the library and responded with understanding.
“We replied in a few lines and said it’s fine. We see this as a healthy societal discussion. If such a change is requested, we have no objection,” he said.
He noted this is the first time in 80 years that the character has drawn such criticism.
“Tove Jansson is widely seen as a champion of tolerance, radical acceptance, and inclusivity. But I greatly respect the American sensitivity around these types of conversations,” he said.
The decision was first reported by Finland’s Swedish-language Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper.
You have abandoned all integrity if you need to lie about something so easily checked as the age of my account.
Okay, that was an Incredibles reference, but here’s why you’re actually a dense motherfucker. Your source does not disagree with my point in any way.
Here’s the quote that actually literally explains what happened:
Your Bodenheimer quote above is in complete agreement with this.
It’s plain dishonest to pretend someone approached them and said the character is racist. That is just not what happened.
But at this point you are too emotionally invested in this fight to acknowledge this. So instead you pretend that Herald disagrees with the YLE article , when in reality it at most implies what you assumed to be true. Meanwhile you resort to calling me an “autistically screeching burner account”. Very classy way to undermine your position I have to say.
And here’s why I said this is advancing right-wing propaganda: Because that’s exactly what this narrative is about “the left” or “woke mobs” going around calling everything racist under the sun and cancelling people left and right. It is an incredibly pervasive and successful avenue of right-wing “culture war” propaganda in recent years. I was being fair with you by saying it’s unconscious, even added that I’ve been there myself. I know how good it feels to rhetorically dunk on ignorant fools like that. But… well, everything above.
source: trustmebro
The emotions are all yours. Ever heard of “projecting”?
You’re literally autistically screeching how a story with several established sources is “complete fiction”, without having anything to back up your statements.
If I were to see you IRL, I’d cross the street, because people mumbling to themselves about things which no-one else sees are usually not good company.
Your whole argument boils down to “nuh-uh, those named museum curators are less trustworthy than me, a random fucking idiot on Lemmy”.
Source: Dasus@lemmy.world lmao.
You’re not hurting my feelings by calling me autistic as an insult, sorry. It just makes you look like a 13-year-old on 4chan.
The sources are the trusted nationals newspapers.
Several of them.
Yle and Hufvudstadsbladet.
Are you getting a bit flustered? 😘
You are my source, you dense MFer 🤦♀️
You posted the Yle article which you now have to pretend doesn’t contain that exact quote which disproves your chosen narrative.
I’m done explaining this circumstance and why it matters. You’re so far down this rabbit hole not even Alice could get through to you. Enjoy yourself in there - but don’t make a mess.
Honestly, are you on krokodil or something? Do you now know how references work?
The Yle article has no quote “disproving” any “chosen narrative”.
First off, what fucking “narrative”, you schizoid fuck?
Secondly, I’m sharing news from trusted national news sources. I’ve repeated that like a dozen times. You still do not understand journalistic credibility? Is it just that you can’t understand the concept of credibility, or does that not translate from your native language?
You’re like a toddler, screeching “NO NO NO NO NO NOT TRUE BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT I HATE IT ITS NOT TRUE AND ITS NOT TRUE BECAUSE I SAY SO”
While I show you reports from the most trusted newspapers in Sweden and Finland, which just quote reports from the actual library from which these works were banned.
And you say that didn’t happen, because… you don’t like it.
You can probably see why people would be laughing at you. :D