Fashion,  Racism

Vogue Italia: Galliano Betrayed by 30 Pieces of Silver

by Joseph W

John Galliano made racist comments to people he thought were Jews recently in Paris. He has also been captured on film telling strangers how much he loved Hitler, and informing them that “people like you would be dead”.

Earlier this week, we reported on a comparison between John Galliano’s sacking by Christian Dior (apparently fearing a Jewish boycott), and the decision of Pilate to sanction Jesus’ crucifixion, printed in the London Evening Standard.

In antisemitic thought, Pilate gave in to angry Jews. Since then, Jews have continually sought to “crucify” wise people by calling them anti-Semites and reducing their influence.

Recently, there has been a comparison between John Galliano’s accusers, and Judas Iscariot. In antisemitic thought, Judas represents Jewish treachery, vice and evil.

The Vogue Italia blog published a piece which read:

An explosion was more than probable when you add together the amount of alcohol Galliano had consumed and the provocations of the people speaking to him. Of course we condemn the extremely seriously racist content of what he said (there’s even a hypothetical apology for Nazism).

Galliano’s outburst was not a “hypothetical” apology for Nazism. Instead, he spoke actual praise and admiration for Adolf Hitler.

Regardless of this fact, Vogue Italia continued:

We don’t want to go on an obsessive search for hidden motives, but perhaps behind this event are just some parvenus of journalistic scandal who, in our opinion, were waiting to have three minutes of video to sell to someone for a good deal more than 30 pieces of silver.

So Galliano is Jesus, and the people who posted the video of Galliano praising Hitler are collectively Judas.

Following an outcry, this paragraph was amended and expanded.

It now reads as follows:

We don’t want to go on an obsessive search for hidden motives, but perhaps behind this event are just some parvenus of journalistic scandal who, in our opinion, were waiting to have three minutes of video to sell to someone for a good deal.

We are not justifying at all his behaviour and we also think it’s grave and heavy what he said. We just wanted to point out how awkward it seems to listen to the voices of people recording: they seem to be messing with him.

[Via fashion website Refinery 29]