France - Lyon School “Blackfaced” Students For US Website

The Emile Cohl art school in Lyon is in the midst of an international scandal after certain students noted that they had been ‘blackfaced’ in pictures on their US partner website.

The school, seeking to open a second venue in the US, had copied their French website over to a US-based URL and the class presentation had been slightly ‘retouched’, aka certain students had been ‘browned’ in order to make it seem more normal and diverse to a US crowd.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">Et sinon : pour se lancer aux USA, une école d&#39;arts lyonnaise a cru bon de…trafiquer une photo et d&#39;y faire apparaître des élèves Noirs.<br><br>Les visages de 3 étudiants blancs ont été foncés &amp; 2 personnes ajoutées.<br><br>La diversitayy oui, mais avec Photoshop.<a href="https://t.co/0dIo8GpjDS">https://t.co/0dIo8GpjDS</a> <a href="https://t.co/Xn5TWKHvhw">pic.twitter.com/Xn5TWKHvhw</a></p>&mdash; Sihame Assbague (@s_assbague) <a href="https://twitter.com/s_assbague/status/1039262725719973893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Already on September 7th several students discovered that the physical appearance of some of them had been modified, their skin deliberately darkened and other black people had been added.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">Bug du <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/blackwashing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#blackwashing</a> d&#39;une école française (Cohl <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lyon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Lyon</a>) pour le <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/march%C3%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#marché</a> américain. Une illustration typique du mensonge permanent du <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Capitalisme?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Capitalisme</a>, de sa soif de fabrication du <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/communautarisme?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#communautarisme</a> dans un objectif de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/division?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#division</a> et de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rentabilit%C3%A9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rentabilité</a>. <a href="https://t.co/sttiA1cv4i">https://t.co/sttiA1cv4i</a></p>&mdash; upgradepc (@upgradepcfr) <a href="https://twitter.com/upgradepcfr/status/1039535306545000448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2018</a></blockquote>

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"We have made our arrangements by having this transferred data deleted immediately without our authorization," the school explained, stating that the website copy was provided by an outside company and that they had now "broken the provider's contract."

"We apologized to those concerned because it goes without saying that we disapprove of this process. We do not need to manipulate images to demonstrate our openness to the world as it is."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This forced PC crap has to stop. The Emile Cohl art school in Lyon, France, is accused of &quot;blackwashing&quot; a group student photo to fake the appearance of diversity. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder</a> <a href="https://t.co/FYc8j5wH9r">https://t.co/FYc8j5wH9r</a></p>&mdash; CNN Is Fake News (@CelebNews1234) <a href="https://twitter.com/CelebNews1234/status/1039886822116126720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2018</a></blockquote>

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However, the school’s excuses have not fully convinced some users, who left their skepticism on social networks.

The person uploading the pictures, which have since disappeared from the school’s websites, stated: “For the opening of Emile Cohl’s new wing in Los Angeles they fiddled the class picture by adding students and retouching some skin colors to simulate a class of more varied origins.”

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Source:

https://www.20minutes.fr/lyon/2334123-20180910-lyon-etudiants-noirs-ajoutes-photo-ecole-dessin-faire-promotion-etats-unis

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