a blog by Peter Leonard
This awkward moment for the Dansk Folkeparti is brought to you courtesy of Nørreport station, where an enterprising adbuster crawled across the high-voltage tracks to adhere a triptych of "RACIST" blindfolds to the three politicians featured -- the middle of whom is the infamous Pia Kjærsgaard herself.
The great part about this color commentary is the way the slogan works just as well with the updated graphic treatment: "Vi står fast på vores danske værdier" (We stand fast on our Danish values) takes on a whole different connotation when the three politicians are literally blinded by prejudice. As the DFP would have it, the values in question here are a kind of mash-up of Quayle-era "Family Values" and Hitchensian anti-Islamicism in the service of "Freedom of Expression" (here a proxy for Mohammed cartoons and Lars Vilks.) Not surprisingly, everyone from the Christian Democrats to this particular subway editor disagrees.