Truth in comics?
By Capt. Fogg
The truth is that "controversial" cartoonist Sean Delonas is a provocateur who really doesn't care about the limits of decency, or about appearing to be joking about murdering the president, or comparing a man of exceptional intelligence, education, and achievement to a dead ape.
Humor is a wonderful tool for saying what is difficult to say, but when the difficulty stems from offending the dignity of people of African descent and indeed of the United States of America, the tool is no longer wonderful. I've been vilified for criticizing George Bush, as has everyone who disagreed with him. Bush's mildest critics have been called vicious, unpatriotic, and "deranged," but although he's often been depicted as a monkey, I can't recall a single cartoon in the mainstream press showing him being shot by the police. Double standard? We need a better word than understatement to describe it.
said New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan. No, it isn't. I'm the last one to go hunting for racist innuendo, but this isn't innuendo, it's a classic piece of bigotry right out of the Jim Crow era, and it can't be whitewashed by slurs against Al Sharpton, whether you like him or not. Everyone on the planet who believes we are a violent nation of racists will nod his head at this. It will be reproduced in papers all over the world just at the time when Obama's election was beginning to change people's minds, and that's just what the rabid right wants: failure for America, resurrection of the policies that have torpedoed the world.
Delonas has left us a long slime trail of disgusting cartoons pandering to the demented, deranged, stupid, bigoted, homophobic, and social misfits who read Murdoch publications looking for justification and stories of alien abduction.
It's time the Rupert Murdoch-owned Post found someone else to write the next cartoon. It's time America found better places to look for information.
The truth is that "controversial" cartoonist Sean Delonas is a provocateur who really doesn't care about the limits of decency, or about appearing to be joking about murdering the president, or comparing a man of exceptional intelligence, education, and achievement to a dead ape.
Humor is a wonderful tool for saying what is difficult to say, but when the difficulty stems from offending the dignity of people of African descent and indeed of the United States of America, the tool is no longer wonderful. I've been vilified for criticizing George Bush, as has everyone who disagreed with him. Bush's mildest critics have been called vicious, unpatriotic, and "deranged," but although he's often been depicted as a monkey, I can't recall a single cartoon in the mainstream press showing him being shot by the police. Double standard? We need a better word than understatement to describe it.
The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, it broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy,
said New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan. No, it isn't. I'm the last one to go hunting for racist innuendo, but this isn't innuendo, it's a classic piece of bigotry right out of the Jim Crow era, and it can't be whitewashed by slurs against Al Sharpton, whether you like him or not. Everyone on the planet who believes we are a violent nation of racists will nod his head at this. It will be reproduced in papers all over the world just at the time when Obama's election was beginning to change people's minds, and that's just what the rabid right wants: failure for America, resurrection of the policies that have torpedoed the world.
Delonas has left us a long slime trail of disgusting cartoons pandering to the demented, deranged, stupid, bigoted, homophobic, and social misfits who read Murdoch publications looking for justification and stories of alien abduction.
It's time the Rupert Murdoch-owned Post found someone else to write the next cartoon. It's time America found better places to look for information.
Labels: Barack Obama, economic stimulus, newspapers, political cartoons, racism, Rupert Murdoch
posted by Capt. Fogg at
5:00 PM
2 Comments:
Great post title.
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creature, at 9:12 PM
I think I've seen something similar - somewhere.
By
Capt. Fogg, at 10:57 PM
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