Are these political cartoons offensive?

[MrFun]

Re: Re: Re: Are these political cartoons offensive?

Originally posted by Sprayber


Why should it be strange to you? Double standards exist on both sides. Increasly on both sides as a matter of fact.

so true

[Stefu]

Incidentally, I'm still having a hard time getting over how much Rush L. looks like Archie Bunker. It's uncanny or something.

[Spiffor]

Just saw the Danzinger: this one is indeed offensive, as it makes a facile attack against Rice, using her feminity as a way to attack her. I wouldn't say it criticizes Rice because she is a woman (which would be the really mysoginist thing to do), but it's still very tasteless, and hints to sexism.

I wouldn't be surprised if a Feminist organization got uppity about that cartoon.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Arrian
@ Diplomat. Registered at Rush's site, eh? Not that I'm surprised.

-Arrian

And even proud of it!

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Spiffor

I wouldn't be surprised if a Feminist organization got uppity about that cartoon.

Somehow, I don't think the issue will come up. Just a feeling I get.

[Last Conformist]

I don't get the danziger at all.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
And even proud of it!

Why not? I get a monthly newletter, a secret email adress to Rush, all the political parodies, clips from the Rush TV show, the full stack of stuff and I can listen to the entire show commercial free anytime of day or night.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
I don't get the danziger at all.

I think it depicts Rice as unable to understand a complex issue (aluminium tubes)... That's because, as a woman, her "role of a lifetime" is to raise children, not to adress complex issues such as these.

[Gibsie]

It would probably help if any of them were funny, but I see no problem with them other than being crap. Are liberals meant to get angry and cry racism because the target is a black woman, or something?

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Gibsie
Are liberals meant to get angry and cry racism because the target is a black woman, or something?

I would think that Liberals should applaud the fact that an African-American woman acheived a great education and has risen to the top to become Secretary of State. Instead, we get cartoons from prominent left cartoonists depicting her as ignorant, a puppet of Bush, and good for nothing but staying home and having babies.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Spiffor

I think it depicts Rice as unable to understand a complex issue (aluminium tubes)... That's because, as a woman, her "role of a lifetime" is to raise children, not to adress complex issues such as these.

What's complex about aluminium tubes?

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
What's complex about aluminium tubes?

The complexity is that the aluminium tubes could be used for rockets not just in developing nukes. The cartoon is trying to say that Condi Rice was too ignorant to know that the tubes were not being used for nuclear weapons.

[RGBVideo]

For political cartoons, they're worse than offensive.

They're not funny.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Spiffor

I think it depicts Rice as unable to understand a complex issue (aluminium tubes)... That's because, as a woman, her "role of a lifetime" is to raise children, not to adress complex issues such as these.

I believe its a reference to a scene in Gone with the Wind, in which the black servant says shes knows all about delivering babies.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


I believe its a reference to a scene in Gone with the Wind, in which the black servant says shes knows all about delivering babies.

The phrasing is black dialect.