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Opinion: Balenciaga’s sexual exploitation exposes the Left’s cowardice and hypocrisy

Clothing company Balenciaga, known largely for absurdly expensive products ($1050 Platform Crocs!?), will now forever be the company that unwittingly put the lie to the Left’s support for #metoo.

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A young child poses in a photo on Balenciaga's website surrounded by an array of thinly veiled satanic, violent sexual and pedophilia-related references. Image credit: Balenciaga

Warning: this article contains references to vile sexual perversions. We have attempted to address these issues in as circumspect a manner possible, but the material is not suitable for young children.

 

Many years ago, back in the days when we shot and developed on film, I was a professionally trained photographer and worked magazine and product shoots.

 

The amount of forethought, planning and staging, not to mention the levels of approval, for every single shoot and image is enough to make anyone’s head spin.

 

That’s why the quasi-apology from Balenciaga, the scandal-plagued clothing company, rings incredibly hollow.

 

Balenciaga recently published their “Spring/Summer 23” campaign, featured a sickening array of children posed with violent sex paraphernalia, thinly veiled satanic symbols and references to pedophilia.

 

In one image, a young and innocent boy is posed near a stuffed bear in BDSM gear with black eyes and other signs of abuse, a reference to the ancient sex and child sacrifice god, Baal, and other demonic imagery.

 

I’ll spare you the rest of the disgusting details, though you can see some of them in the images below. And honestly, hats off if you’ve been able to remain blissfully ignorant of this disgusting scandal.

 

But if you care for your country and your world, and the children who will have to live in it when we’re gone, read on and fight back!
 

Balenciaga ad featuring a stuffed bear wearing BDSM paraphernalia perched near the backside of a toddler. Various liquor accessories are spread out in front of her like the slightly better organized remnants of a drunken orgy.  
Image credit: Balenciaga

 

From Balenciaga after they could no longer ignore the public outcry:

 

We sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused. Our plush bear bags should not have been featured with children in this campaign. We have immediately removed the campaign from all platforms.

 

Balenciaga, this is so much deeper than an unintentional “offense.” This was no “oops, it slipped past us! Our bad! Naughty, naughty ad agency. Very naughty!”

 

They are very deliberately pushing boundaries. How far can they go? What can they get away with to satisfy their own sick appetites and stir up attention-causing and money-making controversy?

 


Surprisingly (or perhaps, we should no longer be surprised at all), leftist elites don’t seem to care that one of their own was attempting to sell “children’s fashion” using pedophilia.


 

Clearly Balenciaga thought sexually exploiting children was not too far.

 

And surprisingly (or perhaps, we should no longer be surprised at all), leftist elites don’t seem to care that one of their own was attempting to sell “children’s fashion” using pedophilia.

 

Highly-paid actress Nicole Kidman, a mother of four, is a star model for Balenciaga’s shocking campaign. She is widely lauded for her philanthropic work, speaking out on violence against women, supporting victims of childhood disease and accepting awards with the likes of Nancy Pelosi.

 

But in the face of the public outcry over her lucrative relationship with Balenciaga, Kidman remains silent. So why the silence now? Is it because it is financially beneficial for her to remain silent?

 

Balenciaga promo displaying one of their purses on a stack of papers from the 2008 Supreme Court case, United States v. Williams, concerning a sex offender who created pornography of his own minor daughter. Image credit: Balenciaga

 

Model Kim Kardashian, another celebrity mother who maintains a close relationship with Balenciaga, did break silence after more than a week. But she refuses to end her lucrative deals with Balenciaga, so far, and was called out for recently allowing her nine-year-old daughter to wear a Balenciaga leather BDSM-style mask to a public event.

 

And what about actress Salma Hayek, her husband François-Henri Pinault, and their long history with Balenciaga? They both love to be seen supporting women’s and girls' rights. What you probably don’t know is Pinault’s company, Kering, owns Balenciaga. 

 

Nothing says compassionate liberal like making billions off sexually exploitive marketing and then giving some of it to help the victims of sexual exploitation!

 

The hypocrisy is sickening. So is the ongoing silence from the rest of the Left.

 


Nothing says compassionate liberal like making billions off sexually exploitive marketing and then giving some of it to help the victims of sexual exploitation!


 

Within the last week, leftist actress Alyssa Milano announced her boycott of Tesla and her faux outrage over Musk’s management of Twitter.

 

Adidas (as well as Balenciaga) was rightfully swift in distancing itself from Ye (formerly Kanye West) after he showed horrific antisemitism. Yet Adidas has yet to show the same horror towards the child sexual exploitation used by Balenciaga in their joint campaign.

 

So the Left certainly knows how to boycott when they feel like it. Funny how that works.

 

Social media has erupted with criticism for this disgusting duplicity.
 

 

 

 

 



The outrage is justified.

 

Corporate executives, models, actors and celebrities, millionaires and billionaires all, are openly glorifying the sexual and physical abuse of children. And for their own financial gain.

 

The same people and organizations who eagerly sacrificed Harvey Weinstien to the mob so they could get back to making money are now cowed and silent.

 

So much for #metoo.

 

 

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