As far back as 2001 Snopes has been actively trying to stifle discussion on controversial content that deserved investigation. Look into the works of "performance artist" Zhu Yu (warning, pictures are not for the weak-stomached and I truly mean it)
Before - When shown what he did, they are very rarely shown this image
During - Again, very few people have seen this picture
After - the highest res I could find of the most infamous shot
Snopes claims "Zhu Yu acted out a performance in which he appeared to eat a stillborn or aborted child (likely constructed by placing a doll's head on a duck's carcass)"
DO THOSE PICTURES LOOK LIKE A FUCKING PLASTIC DOLL'S HEAD ON A DEAD DUCK'S CORPSE TO YOU?
Wikipedia's article on Yu has 15 sources in a row peddling the doll/duck narrative: https://i.sli.mg/Ynmook.png
In addition, here is what Zhu himself said about his "art":
"No religion forbids cannibalism, nor can I find any law which prevents us from eating people."
"I took advantage of the space between morality and the law and based my work on it."
And even better, here are some of Yu's other "works":
- The Foundation of All Epistemology: This work appeared in the 1998 group exhibition It’s All Right in Shanghai. For this piece, Zhu Yu cut and boiled five human brains which were purchased from a local hospital. He placed them in neatly labeled jars that he then signed with his own name. Zhu put these jars of brains up for sale in a market that sponsored the exhibit. He ended up selling 15 bottles each for the price of 98 yuans.
- Pocket Theology: Appearing in the 1999 group exhibition Post-Sense Sensibility- Alien Bodies & Delusion in Beijing, curated by Wu Meichun and Qiu Zhije. A long coiling rope was gripped by a severed, decomposing arm which was suspended by a meat hook. This display was held in a small room in the basement that was being rented by a group of Chinese artists who organize the exhibition. Viewers were forced to walk over the rope which filled the entire space.
- Skin Graft: This performance art installation appeared in the 2000 exhibition Infatuation with Injury organized by Li Xianting. In the exhibit, Zhu uses his own flesh as a canvas. Photos were shown of trunk of a quartered pig lying on a hospital bed. Zhu grafted a piece of his own skin onto a section of damaged skin from the pig. Two photos of this process appeared in the exhibit; one that showed the surgical process, and another which featured the artist sewing his own skin onto the pig carcass. Zhu stood by the exhibit and lifted his shirt to show the scar which stood as evidence of the procedure.
Every single search into this weird man's antics always sends me to some useful idiot copy-pasting Snopes. The only site on the whole internet that I could find that questions it at all is fucking STORMFRONT of all sites. It's pretty goddamn sad when the only site that dares to challenge the Snopes narrative is a forum for White Supremacists.
Oh, and by the way, China has had an actual confirmed booming fetus trade for years, the real news says so: http://archive.is/DEiYh
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zoot3d ago
The point is that snopes "debunked" it - not what this man did