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If I saw those cartoons in a British newspaper, I'd wonder why they were being so restrained.
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Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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The doonesbury cartoon, using the term "brown sugar" (which means a negro prostitute) is racist.Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
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Originally posted by The diplomat
here's the danziger:
That is offensive to 50%+ of the population. Of course, it's on Rush Limbaugh's site, which is also offensive to 50%+ of the population.Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.comComment
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Originally posted by Azazel
POLITICAL CARTOON SHOWS POLITICIAN IN BAD LIGHT NEWS AT 10."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Ahh, no, since he is saying Bush would use that term-that is calling Bush racist.Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
The doonesbury cartoon, using the term "brown sugar" (which means a negro prostitute) is racist.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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yeah but Bush never used that term (that we know of), he is putting words in Bush's mouth. Thusly, we conclude the author is using racially insensitive remarks.Originally posted by GePap
Ahh, no, since he is saying Bush would use that term-that is calling Bush racist.Comment
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No, the writer is just mistaking nepotism for tokenism. That's to say, the writer assumes that Dear Leader appointed someone as inept as Rice because she's a minority, rather than because he rewards loyalty over competence."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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You missed my point then, I found putting Condi in the role of a black servant from Gone with the Wind to be offensive. Imagine the reaction if Powell had been treated that way in an anti-Powell right wing cartoon, or if Kofi Annan had been treated that way.Originally posted by GePap
This thread is so absurd. Political cartoons are about satire, and satire uses culturalreferences- like LoTM said, the Danzinger cartoon references Gone in the Wind (personally I also thought of the Color Purple for some reason).
."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Powell has been treated like that in plenty of political cartoons.
I am sure the robber barrons hated being depicted badly in political cartoons- and you know what? Who gives a ****?
Its political cartooning- people who offend easily about trivial things will always get "offended". If only they became trully offended at the things that matter the world would be better off.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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Are you saying that Condi Rice is incompetent???Originally posted by Drachasor
Some of us value competence over race. I'm all for competent minorities being put into positions of power, but I'll be darned if I am supposed to applaud someone incompetent.
-Drachasor
Do I have to remind you of her credentials?
'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
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Wow, now if she ran a university, or maybe a cultural instutition I might give a damn- she needs to be a public diplomat in her new role.If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard ShawComment
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Interesting how you only cite things she has done *before* being in office. I'd also note, like GePap touched on, that those activities do not necessarily correlate to the duties she has needed to perform for 4 years or now needs to perform.Originally posted by The diplomat
Are you saying that Condi Rice is incompetent???
Do I have to remind you of her credentials?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html
Her record in office is awful, so yes, I think she is incompetent for her current position. She should go back to teaching.
On a closely related note, I don't care a whit how good someone's credentials are if they are currently being incompetent. If you can make them competent quickly, then they should be moved to some other position. Either temporarily if they can get their act together, or permanently if the job is too much for them.
-Drachasor"If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother. If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It's that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper -- that makes this country work." - Barack ObamaComment
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The doonesbury cartoon, using the term "brown sugar" (which means a negro prostitute) is racist.
That's the point... Bush wouldn't realize the negative connotations of the nickname.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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These next two posts go together.Attached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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I didn't want to run this one out of context.Attached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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