Why did they show off Jean-Baptiste Belley's hog like this (hexbear.net)

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Very based slave rebellion guy that fought in the french revolution. Maybe maxxing out your revolutionary stats so hard that people call you Mars, god of war makes french twinks do this to you in paintings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Belley

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[-] TheDeed@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe a combo of

The artist, Anne-Louis Girodet, has been speculated to be what we would consider nowadays as gay. He is known for erotic/sensual elements of male figures, including nudity in a lot of his work
A long time form of racism against black men is that they are considered to be hypersexual. Large penises are attributed to them, evoking "savagery" - the ancient Greeks idealized the small penis. This form of racism persists to this day.