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[–] Microw@lemm.ee 92 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What always bugs me about this is that they had the boys in underwear. Like, if it's fine to symbolize with clothed girls, why do you need to do it differently with boys?

[–] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 11 months ago

Because only the males are fit to actually dress like Jesus. /s

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] crystal@feddit.de 45 points 11 months ago

Because sexism is bad

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is this supposed to mean??

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

catholic priests, sex tourism, war

(abortion?), gun crime/gangs, obesity

...hurts kids

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Organ harvesting. See the cooler.

[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am still so confused about this one. Is this like a thing? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised anymore. All the rest is pretty real, we basically "sacrifice" children by giving religions so much power, war, unregulated fast food, etc.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Big thing in many developing countries. There's entire villages where many people give away their own organs or those of their children for the equivalent of a couple hundred bucks. Mostly kidneys, since you can live with one of them but still pretty messed up.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not so long time ago, at the dawn of this century this has been a substantial issue even in Europe, in Moldova. Now a big thing in Afghanistan.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Gonna be a big thing soon in argentina

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/20/argentina-election-whats-next-after-javier-mileis-victory

[Milei] has also raised the possibility of allowing people to sell their own vital organs.

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Or that children are being sacrificed to them. Crucification was a state punishment, so maybe they are trying to say that governments are complicit in the crime? Maybe?

Or maybe that children are our saviors/future, but they are being sacrificed on the backs of these topical issues?

Art is hard.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That abortion thing is messed up. The rest is true...

[–] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

It's probably organ harvesting, not abortion

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ITT: no one really knows what the hell the artist was trying to portray with this piece other than the blatantly obvious

[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like almost all of it is blatantly obvious everyone the surgeon with the cooler, since I'm not aware of any child organ harvesting epidemic (and I maybe don't want to be).

[–] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm afraid to ask. What does the bottom left represent?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Prob some anti-medicine/ pharma/ vax or other conspiracy stuff. Organ harvesting from children isn't a thing, unless that's the conspiracy and we're right back where we started.

The only reasonable thing I can think of is lack of access to healthcare, and I guess insurance people and lobbyists don't have uniforms so they went with a doctor.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 13 points 11 months ago

Child organ trafficking is much rarer than sexual, but very much a thing that exists. Conspiracies may exaggerate, but don't make the mistake of dismissing the existence entirely as a consequence

[–] IanSomnia@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not thinking antimedicine. More like a criticism of the broken system.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 11 months ago

Dog I think this is just about pedophilia or which children each person figuratively hurts?

[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Holy fucking shit

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Really unsure about the symbolism here. Didn't Jesus die on the cross for our sins to be forgiven or something along those lines? So this kinda implies the abused children die to give forgivness to the people they are nailed to here...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I've never been to a church and neither has anyone I know.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Even in religious circles the forgiveness part is normally left out. The phrase often repeated is "Jesus died for your sins" without any mention of forgiveness. Since that is the common turn of phrase then this depicts children suffering/dying because of the sins of someone else.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

I mean this whole Jesus thing is pretty fucked up / meta, so I see no difference here

[–] anarchist@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Kind of fucked up that the child in the bottom right has to pose for something he's already experiencing

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

every human atrocities in expenses of next generations

[–] pleasemakesense@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] ItzzMe@midwest.social 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tourism and its effects on local people? Idk

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

I'm guessing sex tourism

[–] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Camera implies upskirts I think.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Asian sex tourism, cf Gary Glittter

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I dont understand the middle one in the upper row and the left one in the bottom row. The rest are pretty obvious to me.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Upper middle I think is sex trafficking - used to be huge in Thailand.

Bottom left... Abortion?

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe but the bottom left looks like an organ transporting container and i dont think they use that for abortions. But ig its art even tho i dont agree with everything it represents.

[–] Pandawhiskers@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure if it's photo clarity, but it does kind of look to me like the boy has stitched up cavity down his center

[–] door_in_the_face@feddit.nl 8 points 11 months ago

Bottom left looks like forced organ harvesting? Not sure how often that actually happens to children, but the world is a fucked up place so it's possible I suppose.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait. What's the doctor one?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But what’s the context? I’m completely unaware that doctors were murdering or sacrificing children to steal their organs.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

It's a common conspiracy theory promoted by far right nutjobs.

[–] catherine_fish@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago
[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It really makes you think