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MasterHypnotist -> RE: Open Letter to the New York Post (3/2/2009 1:17:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Go to Toronto and ask what the connotation of the cartoon of watermelons growing on the White House lawn is. They may be our neighbors but some of our culktural stuff they don't know much if anything about
That's what amuses me about these posts. Don't like getting caught out? Just ignore it, change the subject, do something, anything, but admit that it's your sorry ass out there wavin in the wind. No, just leave it out there like it's supposed to be there, and we should appreciate more inanity.
People... political cartoonists are there for the true believers. They grossly lampoon for the impact of the message, not the accuracy. All political cartoonists do this. The ones you like. The ones you don't like! You cannot have a double standard on what caricature images are acceptable and unacceptable, just because one set appeals to your sensibilities, and one set doesn't.
That said, PETA and the SPCA should be angry about the dead monkey cartoon. Why aren't they? Because that would dilute the greater liberal message.
Insisting something is something it is not does not make it what you see it to be. Perceptions, even heartfelt perceptions, can be wrong. Being offended, vociferous, and even Legion in number, does not make this a racist cartoon.
Yeah, I know... the dead chimp represents President Obama, just because a cultural angst requires it to be so. The intent of the cartoon (that I got, inspite of expecting a racist message) is irrelevant.
MH
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