Oh, dear—Photoshop is getting quite the workout over the
Unity march in Paris on Sunday.
You’ll recall that French president François Hollande and
German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the procession, and that they were joined
by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, to the amusement of everyone in the world
with an Adobe subscription.
Well, it turns out that a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox Jewish)
newspaper in Jerusalem thought it inappropriate that the actual participants in
the demonstration be shown with men arm-in-arm with women not their actual, you
know, wives or blood relations, so they excised Merkel, Paris mayor Anne
Hidalgo and Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt from the shot. (They
also cropped out the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as well.)
I’m not going to comment on a Weltanshauung that is so
terrified of very thought of images of actual women appearing in the
representation of an historic event that they falsify photos. We saw it a few
years ago when Hasidic
newspapers in Brooklyn Photoshopped out Hillary Clinton and another woman from
the iconic situation room photo during the takedown of Osama bin Laden, and
I already didn’t comment on that. Much.
Instead, I’ll give you the response to HaMevaser
from the Interwebs:
Sic semper anyone who thinks
they can get away with dicking around with women on the web. That horse done left the barn.
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