{"id":1756115,"date":"2022-11-30T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756115"},"modified":"2022-11-30T08:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:02:51","slug":"the-balenciagas-of-an-anti-christian-world-condemn-child-abuse-while-castrating-traumatizing-and-exploiting-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-balenciagas-of-an-anti-christian-world-condemn-child-abuse-while-castrating-traumatizing-and-exploiting-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balenciagas Of An Anti-Christian World \u2018Condemn\u2019 Child Abuse While Castrating, Traumatizing, And Exploiting Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-balenciagas-of-an-anti-christian-world-condemn-child-abuse-while-castrating-traumatizing-and-exploiting-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It\u2019s hard to think of an episode more tailored to confirm the wildest conspiracy theories of QAnon \u2014 that global elites are a bunch of Satan-worshipping pedophiles \u2014 than the ongoing Balenciaga scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Here you have a luxury fashion brand literally caught in the act of grooming, with a recent ad campaign featuring small children in Balenciaga apparel holding teddy bears wearing sexual fetish and bondage gear, and another ad campaign that included images of court documents from a 2008 Supreme Court decision in\u00a0<em>United States v. Williams<\/em>, which ruled on a law banning the pandering of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga has since pulled all the ads and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/28\/balenciaga-addresses-controversial-ad-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a nonsense excuse<\/a>\u00a0about how it was a \u201cwrong choice\u201d to feature kids with BDSM teddy bears, that it was a \u201cfailure in assessing and validating images,\u201d and that it was \u201cnever our intent\u201d to include child abuse in the company\u2019s \u201cnarrative.\u201d The whole thing, the company says, was the result of \u201ca series of grievous errors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the court documents about child pornography, Balenciaga is claiming ignorance, blaming a third-party contractor\u2019s \u201creckless negligence\u201d for using \u201cunapproved documents\u201d in the photo shoot, and has since filed a $25 million lawsuit against the set designer \u2014 even though Balenciaga also \u201ctakes responsibility\u201d and admits it \u201ccould have done things differently.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Another image in that campaign is of a woman posing in a Manhattan office with a stack of books behind her. One of those books is by Belgian painter Michael Borremans, whose work frequently features children and has included images of toddlers smeared in blood, eating severed limbs. So far, the brand has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11478251\/Balenciaga-campaign-features-book-Belgian-Michael-Borremans-known-depicting-naked-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said nothing about the Borremans book<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Balenciaga\u2019s \u201capology\u201d doesn\u2019t hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people saw the photos of toddlers holding BDSM bears before the ad campaign launched. How did those images get approved? How many Balenciaga executives, and which ones exactly, signed off on them? How many staff members were on set when the images were shot? We won\u2019t ever know because Balenciaga will likely never say, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2022\/11\/28\/kim-kardashian-balenciaga-teddy-bear-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admonitions of Balenciaga brand ambassador Kim Kardashian notwithstanding<\/a>. The company only issued its fake apology after its creepy ads provoked outrage online. The idea that anyone there is sorry for any of this is laughable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there is a deeper story here beyond the hypocrisy and depravity of a single luxury fashion brand, which is that companies like Balenciaga, along with nearly all corporate brands today, have no criteria for saying\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00a0such images are a \u201cwrong choice,\u201d or that publishing them is a \u201cgrievous error.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, Balenciaga says, \u201cWe strongly condemn child abuse.\u201d But does it? The photo shoots themselves, in which young children were exposed to teddy bears in BDSM gear, were arguably abusive. How can a brand both condemn and engage in child abuse?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that the term \u201cchild abuse\u201d has no meaning to the people who run Balenciaga, just as it has no meaning to the people who provide \u201cgender-affirming care\u201d at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rapidly de-Christianizing society like ours, we shouldn\u2019t be shocked when luxury fashion brands both condemn and engage in child abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":1756118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}