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posted by Lloyd Dangle at
9:50 AM
 Thursday, February 19, 2009
 
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We're waiting to see what Dangle says.
one is an obvious joke, an amalgamation of all the scare tactics republicans were trying to use to help their candidate win, and the other is trying bring us back to the 1950's.
On one you'd have to be an ignoramus not to get it, the other you'd be an ignoramus to be the audience it's intended for.
If the audience of the New Yorker is just the upper-crust intellectuals who it was meant for in 1925, then I would give it a pass.
Since then, there is a new thing called the Internet.
High-quality images of the New Yorker cover can be broadcast world-wide on Right-Wing or White Supremacist sites, just as the cartoon was.
So while I understand the "inside joke" intent of the New Yorker intellectuals, I still think it was in poor taste, and they knew that it would be used by others to promote hatred.
That's well stated, rcmpvern. So once it's ripped away from its context on the cover of the intellectual NYer, the irony is lost and the same image can be viewed by others as racist propaganda.
Interesting point.
BTW the ignoramus comment I made wasn't in response to you. We were both writing at the same time.
Thanks, Lloyd.
I can't believe I forgot to mention that the NY Post cartoon and caption also depicts an assassination.
That is the most glaring obscenity of the cartoon.
In the 1960s, the same New York Times was calling Malcom X a preacher of hate, portraying to the public that he was a troublemaker, when all he wanted to do was help uplift the masses of the black people in america from the enemy, the oppressor who today still keeps the people trapped in ghettos selling and using drugs that the U.S. Government put there.
And, so the same New York Times that were racist in the 1960s, are still racist today. They're just too afraid to speak their minds now, so they try to come off as if their racism is only an act of humor.
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