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“Whoever makes a DESIGN without the knowledge of PERSPECTIVE will be liable to such Absurdities as are shown above in this Frontifpiece.”

Luke Sullivan’s “Satire on False Perspective” is based upon a drawing created by William Hogarth. It is an ingeniously absurd image where William Hogarth’s depiction of every element contains a mistake. Among the most noteworthy foibles are the crossed fishing lines, the foreshortened sheep, the man discharging his gun ‘point blank’ into the bridge, the sinking church, the bird on the tree and the woman in the foreground lighting the pipe of the man in the background. There are many more.

This original engraving was designed by William Hogarth, engraved by Luke Sullivan and published by William Heath in 1822.

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Mississippi Judge Takes Baby Away From Mother, Says Lack Of English Would Cause ‘Developmental’ Problems

A federal judge has ruled that a case against two employees of Singing River Hospital and a state child welfare caseworker accused of unjustly separating a newborn baby from her mother may proceed – denying the defendants’ attempt to claim immunity for their actions

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Baltazar Cruz and her daughter. The mother – who speaks the indigenous Mexican language Chatino, limited Spanish and virtually no English – gave birth to her daughter at Singing River Hospital in November 2008. Two days later, the child was taken from her following allegations by a hospital employee who spoke only in Spanish to the mother.

They claimed she was undocumented, traded sex for housing and concluded she intended to give her child away. While she was at the hospital, her Chatino-speaking cousin tried to tell officials that she is actually employed at a Chinese restaurant, and did not in fact “admit” to allegations that she was involved in the sex trade. But a social services representatives who did not know her language nonetheless excluded her cousin from discussions between them.

After the state health department filed a “report of suspected abuse and neglect,” officials temporarily gave Baltazar Cruz’s baby to a couple who wanted to adopt a child, but were not licensed as foster parents, according to court documents. And at a court hearing that followed, Judge Sharon Sigalas agreed with the couple’s argument that the baby would have “developmental” problems because she would not communicate with the baby in English.

Baltazar Cruz was without her daughter for almost a year, and the court nearly terminated her parental rights.

It was only after a federal investigation of the case was initiated that the judge, prosecutor, and guardian ad litem all recused themselves from the case, claiming a new conflict of interest. The judge who replaced Sigalas granted Baltazar Cruz custody.

A federal judge ruled Friday that these officials could not now claim immunity from constitutional allegations against them, concluding, “This case is riddled with contradicting stories and potential indicia of misconduct.”

Yet another instance of abduction adoption employed as a tool of ethnocide against indigenous and brown peoples. #White Savior Industrial Complex

And if you think being branded as “disordered” simply for not speaking English or [insert adoptive Western language here] is wild bullshit, such racist ableism is actually quite common in the Western adoption industry. “Orphaned” kids are mass diagnosed with the disorder that in common parlance is referred to as “serial killer syndrome.”

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May Stevens, Three Boats on a Green Green Sea, 1999

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Franz Erhard Walther: Werkmonographie, Herausgegeben von Götz Adriani, DuMont Kunst/Praxis, Cologne, 1972

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