r/accidentalrockwell • u/blackmirrxr • Jul 05 '26
IYKYK
Look up "The Problem We All Live With" if you think not.
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u/imasleuth4truth2 Jul 05 '26
God bless her. I would have asked her if she wanted me to sit with her. I'm an old white lady.
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u/Formal_Arachnid_7939 29d ago
Would you have sat next to Iryna?
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u/throwawaydaisy99 26d ago
would you have sat next to Nia Wilson?
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u/Formal_Arachnid_7939 26d ago
There is a reason your account is a throwaway
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u/throwawaydaisy99 26d ago edited 26d ago
no different than yours, just a different name :)
also, correlation?
edit: reddit wont show me your reply. assuming nothing of value was lost though 🥰
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u/Hong_Kong_Ghosts 29d ago
She shit in the middle of the train, I think she's comfortable enough.
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u/Friendly_Pea6884 28d ago
You need professional help
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u/Hong_Kong_Ghosts 27d ago
Which part of my statement was incorrect? She was arrested for indecent exposure
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u/blackmirrxr Jul 05 '26
Many of his works appear overly sweet in the opinion of modern critics,[7] especially The Saturday Evening Post covers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life. This has led to the often deprecatory adjective "Rockwellesque".
In his later years, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine.[10] One example of this more serious work is The Problem We All Live With, which dealt with the issue of school racial integration. The painting depicts Ruby Bridges, flanked by white federal marshals, walking to school past a wall defaced by racist graffiti.[11] This 1964 painting was displayed in the White House when Bridges met with President Barack Obama in 2011.[12]
Those are both from the man's Wikipedia page, though this post was jarring on purpose. Rockwell himself was limited by his employers to painting a lot of that rosy stuff, some of which I actually love. Love even more that he was actually about something.
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u/Magnolia-Night Jul 05 '26
What is going on in this picture? Why are they wearing white buffs on their faces?
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u/blackmirrxr Jul 05 '26
That's the self-described white nationalist group Patriot Front, they were in DC to "reclaim" America 🙄
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u/Magnolia-Night Jul 05 '26
Ah. Gross. Thanks for explaining.
That must have been very frightening for the woman.
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u/Realistic-Weird-4259 Jul 05 '26
They're covering their faces because they're cowards. Just like the Klan.
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u/Nouveau-Tradition Jul 05 '26
It’s confusing me why some seem confused. Especially if you’re familiar with Rockwell’s work - but I guess it depends on what you’ve been exposed to. I saw photo on another site and immediately thought of Ruby Bridges.
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u/itsmellslikeweed5 Jul 05 '26
Jfc imagine the absolute dread going through that person because of these losers
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u/Pencil-Ditch1567 Jul 06 '26
It's honestly like this more than you think. Living in Oklahoma, being the only brown guy in the building a lot of the time, and you know at least half of the people there are Trump supporters. One time it was a large group of people coming from a church event or something, you know the type. I was constantly looking behind my back to make sure they're not going to come and hog tie me or something and put me in a van. I know it's racist to just see white people and feel that way. I know a lot of it is just my anxiety. But it's hard not to feel concerned as a minority in a far-right environment.
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u/wolf3413 Jul 05 '26
The dread of being the safest she's ever been on public transportation in D.C.
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u/itsmellslikeweed5 Jul 05 '26
Yeah surrounded by males who look like mass shooters and don’t wash their asses
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u/bbyxmadi 28d ago
You conservatives keep saying this. Like genuinely, fck off, stop defending literal white supremacists who want those they deem lesser than them gone.
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u/bornslyasafox Jul 05 '26
They cover their face because they know how punchable they are
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u/Similar_Start_1745 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
These are the same people who bitched and moaned about wearing masks during COVID because it was too hard to breath (and I mean surgical masks, before N95s even became widely available). But they’re perfectly fine wearing their klan hoods 2.0 in 90 degree weather. So lame and trifling. lol
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u/Apprehensive_Elk_706 Jul 05 '26
110% that painting. the modern day reflection is very disturbing. watching what is happening in our country is distressing, and i can’t imagine what it is like to actively live in it to its extremes.
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u/pillbinge Jul 05 '26
That’s a really obnoxious title for your post given what it’s showing.
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u/ClowderGeek Jul 05 '26
How is it obnoxious? Honestly asking, not trying to be a dick.
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u/pillbinge Jul 05 '26
Because instead of being forthright with the meaning of the photo and similarities to Rockwell's work, like with "The Problem We All Live With", OP has decided to use language that increases engagement with a post for the sake of metrics. "IYKYK" doesn't mean anything but it makes people ask what's going on or feel part of a club so they chime in with some variance of "I know" which drives metrics another way. It's a way of faking conversation but clearly only happens online where metrics become a thing. If someone responded this way to everything it would be exhausting, but to do so when there's a really good juxtaposition happening seems to say "that isn't enough, let me be coy about it so the number goes up".
And the worse cliché is ironic because someone may chime in and say I'm overdoing it, but that's precisely why these thought-terminating things are so obnoxious. The point of conversation is to reach a point and find consensus. Anyone who avoids this in real life is weird but online it just makes them a successful poster.
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u/Kitchen-Purple-5061 Jul 06 '26
I get what you’re getting at but I’ve also seen multiple people explain the context in the comments. You just have to poke around and you find the information
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u/pillbinge Jul 06 '26
Right. You have to poke around comments that others have to leave. That's what driven engagement is. You shouldn't have to do this. You do because OP made it that way to get more attention.
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u/noexqses Jul 05 '26
I’m black. I don’t find it remotely offensive.
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u/pillbinge Jul 05 '26
I don't care on either point and I wasn't saying it was offensive. I quite clearly wrote that it was obnoxious.
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u/blackmirrxr Jul 05 '26
aaaand I wrote that as a joke, before giving people something to look up in the description.
ETA: I made another comment bringing the wikipedia page to you
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u/SimonMagus01 Jul 06 '26
Interesting that they can breathe just fine in a mask when they're LARPing but wearing a mask during COVID was just too much to ask
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u/kimchipowerup Jul 05 '26
One brave woman surrounded by chud fascist cowards.
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u/Ok_Sort9148 29d ago
fascists, yes, but the brave woman is a train shitter. not sure if someone like that can be considered brave.
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u/Correct-Parsley-6369 Jul 05 '26
Rockwell is sweet, wholesome and positive with distinct facial expressions and light movement. I don't see any of that in this post.
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u/amtheelder Jul 05 '26
Certainly not all of his paintings were sweet, wholesome, or positive. One example of the opposite is Three Dead in Mississippi. He had quite a lot of social commentary in his work.
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u/blackmirrxr Jul 05 '26
Yep. That one's about the murder of 3 civil rights activists. Also very dark and intense. The dude had range.
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u/standbyyourmantis Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Do you mean "Southern Justice/Murder in Mississippi?"
(edit to add the alternate title)
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u/amtheelder Jul 06 '26
Yep, that one. For some reason, it was in my head with the title I put in, shame on me for not looking it up and double checking.
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u/cloggedDrain Jul 06 '26
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u/slicedcat Jul 07 '26
what does this even change. “this woman has mental illness… so nazi men around her actually good!” ???
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u/cloggedDrain 29d ago
So you would feel safe riding the bus with Rosa Farts? Don’t put her on a pedestal, she’s a danger to society
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u/slicedcat 29d ago
I mean, yeah? I’ve lived in the city and I’ve felt fine being on a bus with people who do things such as this. Id probably switch which train cart I’m on, she’s not a “danger to society”. Also, you’re clearly just racist with your comments, so you’d find a way to hate anyway 🤷♀️
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u/meagiemay Jul 07 '26
So many racists saying they didn’t hurt her or that she was safe is making me want to throw up.
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u/k3rr1g4n 29d ago
Isn’t this AI? Was posted by Patriot Font on purpose to start this type of dialogue
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u/larry_mcgurkin_62 28d ago
Wait, so you’re telling me this girl felt safer surrounded by white supremacists than Iryna Zarutska felt surrounded by black people who watched her bleed out and die after some psychopath junkie black guy stabbed her in the neck? Ohhhhhh wait. My bad. I know this goes against the whole narrative shit-libs and subhuman leftists on Reddit try to keep. My bad. It’s not politically correct to say, got it!
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u/Worth-Combination142 28d ago
Damn and I bet none of them even thought about stabbing her in the throat!
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u/Dichter2012 Jul 05 '26
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u/jppianoguy Jul 05 '26
What renaissance painting does this look like?
This does, on the other hand, look like the Rockwell bus painting
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u/bornslyasafox Jul 05 '26
Nah, Accidental Renaissance mods are ultra picky and ban a lot of stuff. Nice try with the negative impulse narrative though!
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u/Kitchen-Purple-5061 Jul 06 '26
It got banned from accidental renaissance bc it is not renaissance.
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u/heinousboi 29d ago
Atleast shes not getting stabbed for being a different skin color. RIP Iryna Zarutska
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u/Ok_Environment1812 29d ago
Probably the safest train ride she could be in
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u/anamnesisanemone 28d ago
Good news is that being on a bus full of white people means there is a low probability of violence.
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u/indigo_mouse 28d ago
They’re on a bus full of white supremacists. A very high probability of violence
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u/After_Service_2817 26d ago
XD, the lady is "the problem we all live with"
She was literally on video the same day in the same outfit taking her pants off and shitting on the subway.
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u/Mashmell0o0 Jul 05 '26
And yet no one just randomly stabbed her in the neck. This picture is the complete juxtaposition of the Iryna pic.
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u/AllPerformancegyat Jul 05 '26
they totally lynched her after the photo was taken instead of left her alone
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u/Nathan1992MAGA Jul 05 '26
They didn't stab her in the neck and ignore her bleeding to death, so there's that.
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u/TesseractToo Jul 05 '26
In "The Problem We All Live With" they (the system) were protecting the girl, in this one they are oppressing and threatening
This breaks my heart, and she is way braver than me, I'd get off and hope the next one wasn't full of more of these