Artist Kent Monkman's painting of partially nude Trudeau with laughing women creates uproar (from left) online

CBC news ^ | May 20, 2020 | Austin Grabish

[jerod]

Renowned Cree artist Kent Monkman has come under fire for his new painting that shows Prime Minister Justin Trudeau partially nude, on all fours, preparing for what Monkman called "a consensual act" while Indigenous women surrounding him laugh.

The painting, titled Hanky Panky, has been condemned by many who believe it portrays sexual violence and disrespects First Nations traditions. But it is also being praised by some, including Ojibway Senator Murray Sinclair.

Monkman posted the work on Facebook on Saturday and said the piece was meant to highlight problems with "the Canadian (in)justice system" and the victimization of Indigenous women, who experience violence and sexual assault at rates higher than other women in Canada. But it provoked a backlash....

[jerod]

A 'backlash' from the Trudeau loving CBC and our dear leader Just Not Trudeau's worshipers... The CBC Story doesn't even show the full painting because it will 'offend'... Too funny. They also ban all comments, as per their efforts to squelch freedom of speech within Canada.

Trudeau is a feminist fraud and he was caught being white liberal racist when pics emerged of him wearing black face on several occasions. He is always kowtowing to any liberal or female cause he thinks will get him some left of center votes... One of those causes was being kowtowed into creating an inquiry into indigenous woman being murdered more often than white woman... The result was a complete joke of an inquiry that cost millions and produced nonsense...

This is the full painting...

This is what the CBC shows readers on it's website...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

What does the painted red hand raised by the indian signify? I don’t get that part....

[allendale]

Political correctness trumps creative freedom in the world of the Left.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Simpson noted the prominent central imaging of the red hand, which to many in the Indigenous community is a symbol meant to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG). While Simpson believes the hand is a sex toy that has appeared in Monkman's previous work, others see it as an insult to MMIWG.Simpson noted the prominent central imaging of the red hand, which to many in the Indigenous community is a symbol meant to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).

While Simpson believes the hand is a sex toy that has appeared in Monkman's previous work, others see it as an insult to MMIWG.

I still don't get it. Never have been in to kinky sex.

[nwrep]

I also don’t get it. Who are the other men? Are they the equivalent of Founding Fathers of Canada?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Waahhhhhhh! It’s only funny and/or art if the targets are conservatives! Waaahhhhhhhhhh!

[ecomcon]

The blind leading the blind; and they all fall into the ditch together.

[jerod]

Yup... They are.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

That’s some weird sh*t, man. Trudeau is a loser, but the mind that conjured this work is defective as well.

[null and void]

What does the painted red hand raised by the indian signify? I don’t get that part....

Did you catch the RCMP guy in the foreground?

Obviously the mountee, not the mounter...

[Phil DiBasquette]

O jibe way

[Savage Beast]

"the way that the likeliness of Trudeau was being held down and forced into it"???

Looks to me like he's looking forward to it.

He can't brush those two women aside?

[Kriggerel]

The best part is that the artist (Monkman), is actually Native (Cree), so, the lefties can’t attack him as fiercely as they could, were he white and/or conservative.

[Savage Beast]

Also the "former prime ministers" don't seem to be interfering.

[martin_fierro]

“Royal Canadian Mountee “

[martin_fierro]

BEAT ME BY THAT MUCH

[familyop]

Totally disgusting. Those people have been propagandized with feminism, environmentalism and negativity for too long to keep the few young men of ingenuity in their communities from rising to compete in productive business.

[DesertRhino]

But land of lakes butter is a problem??