Originally published at: Chinese government punishes 27 people for "tragically ugly" illustrations in kids' math books | Boing Boing
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I would’ve missed it. It’s not award-winning drawing, but I don’t think it’s so ugly to care or notice. It’s just textbook!
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China, where being a children’s book illustrator means risking prison.
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if desantis, moms for liberty and Texass GQP get their way, that is exactly what we will see here.
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Just sub par. More like “I’m not going to pay you for this” bad not really “to the gulag with you” bad though
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As the linked piece notes, it’s almost certainly because they had zero budget for the illustrations, not necessarily because they were trying to subvert China from within or something.
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Some years ago I did a temp job at a children’s book publisher, and the managing editor showed me some of the mail they got from people who thought they were seeing dirty things in the illustrations. So, you know, people will see what they want to see. It doesn’t help here that the pictures really are not good. And the people who are seeing things have the power to have you picked up and sent to jail for no reason.
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Five fingered hands. Hmmmmm…
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this looks uglier to me
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“cultural annihilation”
So what Russia is doing to Ukraine is somehow in the same category as a few drawings in a kids maths book.
Oooookaaaay.
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Especially as netizens are comparing the cartoons to old textbooks with socialist realist illustrations of cheerful children in an idealised Maoist China.
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Even the last cartoon movie is too much for China. So imagine a inverted Chinese flag.
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