{"id":1771,"date":"2014-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/26-07-2014-bucharest-exhibition-on-rroma-massively-defamed\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:49:58","slug":"26-07-2014-bucharest-exhibition-on-rroma-massively-defamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/26-07-2014-bucharest-exhibition-on-rroma-massively-defamed\/","title":{"rendered":"26.07.2014 Bucharest: exhibition on Rroma massively defamed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Jacob (2014) reports on a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tracist hostility towards an exhibition of the Rroma painter George Vasilescu in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBucharest. Vasilescu showed a series of portraits of 15 contemporary Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmusicians in the renowned <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Muzeul \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u021a\u0103ranului Rom\u00e2n<\/em> museum (museum of the Romanian peasant). Even before the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texhibition opened, the nationalist politician Bogdan Diaconu published a racist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttirade against the portrait display on his website: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThe member of the social democratic Romanian party USP, which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\totherwise primarily disparages the Hungarian minority in the country, called \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe exhibition a \u201cirresponsible insult\u201d to Romanian culture. The museum \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdirector Nitulescu has transformed his exhibition hall into a \u201crubbish dump\u201d and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthus \u201coffends common sense\u201d, [he stated]. \u201cThe culture\u201d must \u201cbe protected from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsuch damage and dirt\u201d, [he added]. With the display of Roma musicians, \u201cthe \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmuseum promotes homosexuality.\u201d<\/em> It is significant that Diaconu cannot even \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave seen the exhibition as it only opened a few days later. His hostility \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttowards the museum director and the exhibition is therefore clearly biased with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby a massive racial prejudice. In his absurd, xenophobic argument, he equates \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinterest and compassion with the Rroma minority with homosexuality, which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treveals his pathological way of thinking. After Diaconu made his public \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstatement, which received massive media coverage, Nitulescu received numerous \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thate messages and even a death threat. Nitulescu responded with an open letter \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin which he criticised the hostility of Diaconu and accuses him of demagoguery. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe prestigious daily newspaper <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Adev\u00e3rul<\/em> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thowever rejected the publication of the letter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jakob, Christian (2014) Hass und Homophobie. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">TAZ online <\/em>vom 18.7.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taz.de\/Roma-Ausstellung-in-Bukarest\/!142600\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.taz.de\/Roma-Ausstellung-in-Bukarest\/!142600\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob (2014) reports on a racist hostility towards an exhibition of the Rroma painter George Vasilescu in Bucharest. 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