3 March - 12:30am, Kingsford
"Fashion world stunned by Galliano's sacking", reads the ABC headline. [Get at it here.] The story is that John Galliano, the head designer from Dior said some racist things in France and The Sun (sneaky buggers) filmed it. The sacking came after the video came out. The video showed Galliano saying "I love Hitler ... People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed." Why is it now 'stunning' that he's been sacked because of this? More stunning would be if he kept his job.
Also. He was asked, "Don't you want peace in the world?" His response was, "Not with people like, not with ugly people in the world."
Two things.
Thing One. I this address to John Galliano, and I use potentially offensive language because John Galliano, you deserve it. John, you work (well, worked) in the fashion industry. You design clothing for a living. You also have sex with men. That's two things that make you a bit of a faggot. Just quietly, being gay was one of those Undesirable Things that the Nazis would send you to the gas chamber for. On top of that, contempt of gays was one of the very, very few things that the Nazis and their Jewish/Gypsy/Communist prisoners had in common. Your typical concentration camp Gay could expect the hardest of hard labours and to be treated with violence from both prison guard and inmate alike. Courtesy of Herr Hitler.
But oh my God, didn't those SS uniforms just look fab?
Thing Two. What a half-arsed attempt at denunciation from the fashion world followed this. Jessica Stam, model: "I love the Jews and what he said is awful, but also sad to watch him leave Dior" (Twitter). Chanel Iman, model: "I love John Galliano. ... He is one of the most creative, genius designers that I've worked with and he's so open to all types of people. He's loving and he's caring and I wish him all the best." Unless it's toward people who aren't Aryan. I mean come on Chanel. That's the sort of thing you say when someone retires because they want to move on with their career. It's not what you say when someone loses their job because they've exposed themselves as a Nazi-loving bigot. The general response is a bit underwhelming: "Yeah, I mean of course it's bad, but it's so sad that Dior is losing such a talent."
Or: "If only there were some way that we could ignore this guy's admiration for Nazis and just let him continue to make amazing clothes for us to wear."
The moral: the loss of a talented individual is an acceptable situation for any society or organisation if it also means putting a Nazi sympathiser out of a job.
"Fashion world stunned by Galliano's sacking", reads the ABC headline. [Get at it here.] The story is that John Galliano, the head designer from Dior said some racist things in France and The Sun (sneaky buggers) filmed it. The sacking came after the video came out. The video showed Galliano saying "I love Hitler ... People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be fucking gassed." Why is it now 'stunning' that he's been sacked because of this? More stunning would be if he kept his job.
Also. He was asked, "Don't you want peace in the world?" His response was, "Not with people like, not with ugly people in the world."
Two things.
Thing One. I this address to John Galliano, and I use potentially offensive language because John Galliano, you deserve it. John, you work (well, worked) in the fashion industry. You design clothing for a living. You also have sex with men. That's two things that make you a bit of a faggot. Just quietly, being gay was one of those Undesirable Things that the Nazis would send you to the gas chamber for. On top of that, contempt of gays was one of the very, very few things that the Nazis and their Jewish/Gypsy/Communist prisoners had in common. Your typical concentration camp Gay could expect the hardest of hard labours and to be treated with violence from both prison guard and inmate alike. Courtesy of Herr Hitler.
But oh my God, didn't those SS uniforms just look fab?
Thing Two. What a half-arsed attempt at denunciation from the fashion world followed this. Jessica Stam, model: "I love the Jews and what he said is awful, but also sad to watch him leave Dior" (Twitter). Chanel Iman, model: "I love John Galliano. ... He is one of the most creative, genius designers that I've worked with and he's so open to all types of people. He's loving and he's caring and I wish him all the best." Unless it's toward people who aren't Aryan. I mean come on Chanel. That's the sort of thing you say when someone retires because they want to move on with their career. It's not what you say when someone loses their job because they've exposed themselves as a Nazi-loving bigot. The general response is a bit underwhelming: "Yeah, I mean of course it's bad, but it's so sad that Dior is losing such a talent."
Or: "If only there were some way that we could ignore this guy's admiration for Nazis and just let him continue to make amazing clothes for us to wear."
The moral: the loss of a talented individual is an acceptable situation for any society or organisation if it also means putting a Nazi sympathiser out of a job.
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