Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Controversial and offensive events & reactions

CONTROVERSIAL EVENTS 

Raphael Albuquerque Joker's cover

A comic book cover intended to celebrate the  75th anniversary of the Joker character in the Batman universe has been pulled because the cover depicted the infamous villain threatening a girl. Bat Girl, specifically.





Swedish artist jailed for "race hate" art exhibition 

A Malmö court has sentenced Swedish street artist Dan Park to six months in jail for incitement to racial agitation and defamation.






Starbucks to remove offensive poster from stores



A Derbyshire 'Fat' poster gym advert removed for offensive

The poster, on Tamworth Road, in Sawley, Derbyshire, shows aliens beaming up a person into their spaceship with the text, "they'll take the fat ones first".


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