Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
Article here. IMO the point that the posters lack ethno-genderal diversity is true. What's wrong is the basis of the criticism of it: that exclusive white male representation necessarily entails "white supremacy" or worse, Nazism. That's utter hogwash. Excerpt:
'But the agency has made a dramatic shift during the Trump administration, launching a social media campaign with illustrations that appear to be AI-generated and that almost exclusively feature White men — part of an effort to promote the hiring of American citizens over foreign workers.
Art experts and historians say the images mimic the styles of artist Norman Rockwell or historical government propaganda, including posters from New Deal-era America and fascist Europe. The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce and is sending messages that feel exclusionary, given that White men make up a minority of the workforce.
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Duke University art history professor Paul Jaskot said he would compare the images to a range of historic propaganda, including Nazi and Soviet art in the 1930s, as well as the campaign led by the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal era in the U.S.
“These images participate in a longer history of images of heroic white masculinity that extends well beyond the Nazi period,” Jaskot wrote in an email.'
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