News Break: Gallinao ... "farce"?

On 25 February 2011, Fashion house Dior announced that it had suspended designer, John Galliano following his arrest over an alleged anti-semitic assault in a Paris bar. The same day, Paris-based citizen journalism site Citizenside received video of Galliano on a drunken, anti-semitic rant in the same bar the previous December. In the video Galliano hurls anti-semitic insults at a group of Italian women and declares "I love Hitler... People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers would all be fucking gassed." This incident happened just before Paris Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2011/2012.
The video was licensed to British tabloid newspaper The Sun, who published the video on their website.
Natalie Portman, an Oscar-winning Jewish actress whose great-grandparents died in Auschwitz, had an endorsement contract with Dior for its Miss Dior Cherie fragrance. In a statement, she expressed "disgust" at John Galliano's anti-semitic comments. Portman said: “I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano’s comments that surfaced today...I hope at the very least, these terrible comments remind us to reflect and act upon combating these still-existing prejudices that are the opposite of all that is beautiful.” Not everyone in the fashion industry, however, shared Portman's "disgust." Stylist and costume designer Patricia Field went all out defending Galliano by sending an email blast to 500 friends, blogs and media. She dismissed Galliano's anti-semitic rants as "theater" and later, in a phone interview with WWD described Galliano’s videotaped behavior as “farce” and said she was bewildered that people in the fashion community have not recognized it as such. "It’s theater," she said. "It’s farce. But people in fashion don’t recognize the farce in it. All of a sudden they don’t know him. But it’s OK when it’s Mel Brooks’ The Producers singing 'Springtime for Hitler'.”
On 1 March 2011, Dior announced that it had begun procedures of dismissal for Galliano, with Dior's chief executive Sidney Toledano stating "I very firmly condemn what was said by John Galliano". The "maison" has taken steps to dismiss the operator after a video of a second incident emerged on the internet showing Galliano, visibly drunk, declaring "I love Hitler". After the incident Galliano's popular personal website was jammed and made unavailable for visitors.
Galliano has denied the allegations through his attorney.


Typical that some people are calling John Galliano's actions 'farce' and not to be taking seriously.
If John Galliano was straight and up there talking about gay people or black people - y'all would GAG.
‎"its not 'cunt' .. its tragic ... let's not make excuses cuz he's gay or 'an ARTIST' that its ok to get wasted n say shit like that"

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#smh