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Some social media users are claiming that the Prado Museum in Madrid is removing the world-famous piece of art for being a hate crime against people with restricted growth, known as dwarfism in English. But no, the claims aren’t true. This post published on X in Spanish says that Ernest Urtasun, Spain’s culture minister, is planning to remove Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez from the Prado’s permanent exhibition. It says the reason is because the painting constitutes a hate crime against people suffering from dwarfism and achondroplasia, which is a genetic condition that slows down bone growth. …

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