XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.simpsons, alt.censorship   
   From: no_offline_contact@example.com   
      
   On 2019-03-08 1:25 PM, Neill Massello wrote:   
   > moviePig  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Not that it matters, of course.  Merely making the gesture is the point.   
   >>    (No sarcasm.)   
   >   
   > Yes. In the Soviet Union, perhaps the most mendacious regime in history,   
   > they merely airbrushed the unpersoned out of photos, without talking   
   > about it.   
      
   Airbrushing was just one of the techniques they used. They also:   
   - used black ink to completely obliterate the person from each physical   
   copy of the picture   
   - cut out the offending picture with scissors   
   - expropriated every copy of the book that they could find from libraries   
   - etc. etc.   
      
   David King's book, The Commissar Vanishes, gives illustrations of many   
   of their techniques from King's *immense* collection of these photos (a   
   quarter million the last time I heard).   
      
   > In modern America, what counts is announcing your shameful   
   > acts.   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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