115. Shadysider wrote:
I agree with Cedarford and mwl on this one. That cartoon was incredibly disrespectful. The past uses of monkeys depicting black people in the paper, and the presence of the photo of Obama signing a paper just before this cartoon indicate the thoughtlessness and possibly racist undertones held by Post cartoonists and editors.
Peter writes: Let me ask you this; If three days ago a LION had gone berzerk and maimed someone and a cartoonist drew a cartoon depicting a lion being shot and comparing it to the writers of the Porkulus package, would there be all this racist outcry? What about if a bear had mauled people and the next day a cartoonist depicted it? Is THAT racist?
It’s called CURRENT EVENTS, something you probably haven’t had in school if you attended in the last decade. Editorial cartoons parody current events ALL THE TIME. Get over it.
Get up to speed on current events before you start making outragious assumptions on what a cartoonist does and doesn’t mean in his/her work.
