So THIS little example of "political cartooning" made its way into The New York Post this morning, created by cartoonist Sean Delonas. The one thing I will say for the The New York Post: when it comes to being insulting and tasteless, they sure as hell know how to multi-task.
SO LET'S GO TO THE SCORECARDS!!
Racist overtones? CHECK!
Implied violence toward a sitting President and/or members of Congress? CHECK!
Making fun of the killing of animals just because they freak out and don't want to wear train conductor costumes and dance for annoying children? CHECK!
Making fun of an incident where a woman was literally torn apart by an animal? CHECK!
Insinuating that cops are trigger-happy? CHECK!
FINAL SCORE: 5/5 (A+)
I personally find the cartoon pretty stupid and tasteless...but I sure as HELL defend the artist's right to draw it and The New York Post's right to print it. See, that's the joy of the First Amendment: you have the right to express yourself in whatever bat-shit crazy way you want as long as you don't infringe on the rights of others. Something both ultra-liberals and ultra-conservatives need to understand A LOT more.
I can't even see someone who agrees with the sentiment laughing at this. From the standpoint of an English student, this is just satire at its absolute worst.
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ReplyDeleteThe most insulting, insensitive, slightly racist, pieces of media always tend to be the most hilarious.
ie: the cartoon that made it into print of sigfried and Roy , that one is priceless.
Making light of others mishaps is how comedy works :
Bugs bunny snuck a firecracker in elmers cigar..... That's just genius.
It's unfortunate that racism still exists after so long...but we'll never live in an ideal world. It would be pretty interesting to hear the President's comments about this.
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