Hitler B. Natural posted:

and of course the all-time classics

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20 (he re-drew this for Gore, but he didn't change the number)

colonel_korn posted:

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achillesforever6 posted:

I thought Obama was a dummy who couldn't beat manly man Putin in chess Branco?

colonel_korn posted:

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Mr E posted:

January 2014?

colonel_korn posted:

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Vargo posted:

This is... this is an accurate, non-Millennial-bashing cartoon from Ratland? Am I missing something here?

Rorus Raz posted:

And the bartender cleaning what appears to be blood.

What did Past Branco know

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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colonel_korn posted:

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Gilganixon posted:

He's cut eye holes in that bag so he can still see

colonel_korn posted:

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Kurtofan posted:

I don't get the washing dishes comment.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Parallel Paraplegic posted:

This is not getting enough love as far as I can tell

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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vyelkin posted:

Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, turned 200. By any standard nowadays he would be considered a racist, colonialist, alcoholic shithead, so naturally there's a large movement to overlook all that by judging him according to the standards of his own time/whitewashing Canada's horrible early history because he's Canada's version of George Washington and (perhaps more importantly) was a Big C Conservative so our current Conservatives claim him as one of their own.

Hitler B. Natural posted:

You're mistaking everyone for Branco lately.

colonel_korn posted:

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vyelkin posted:

Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, turned 200. By any standard nowadays he would be considered a racist, colonialist, alcoholic shithead, so naturally there's a large movement to overlook all that by judging him according to the standards of his own time/whitewashing Canada's horrible early history because he's Canada's version of George Washington and (perhaps more importantly) was a Big C Conservative so our current Conservatives claim him as one of their own.

vyelkin posted:

Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, turned 200. By any standard nowadays he would be considered a racist, colonialist, alcoholic shithead, so naturally there's a large movement to overlook all that by judging him according to the standards of his own time/whitewashing Canada's horrible early history because he's Canada's version of George Washington and (perhaps more importantly) was a Big C Conservative so our current Conservatives claim him as one of their own.

Agnosticnixie posted:

Considering he shocked the french media about five minutes into confederation with statements like "We should hang a french canadian on each tree on Mount Royal" and the handling of the Red River rebellion, it's fair to say he was already thought of as a shithead by what was, at the time, half the country.

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Randler posted:

Wait... So US newspapers aren't actually prining CH cartoons out of solidarity? Because that's what a lot of newspapers in socialist Germany are doing.

A Fancy 400 lbs posted:

Why is it so appalling to say that you should only do something you know a lot of people find offensive if the offense serves a point? Is it really that hard to not be a dick for no reason?

blowfish posted:

The point is that society should never forget to cherish hard-fought rights. Idiots going "you can't make jokes about that, it's offensive" have no right not to be offended and are fair game; they make causing offense in itself is a point worth making.
Firebombing the newspaper and causing a hilarious shitstorm over cartoons will get you mocked even more often.

Chamale posted:

Yes? Why wouldn't he?

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"Haaretz is where the terrorists should have gone,” wrote Riki Michael. “Death to traitors,” added Moshe Mehager. “I hope that terrorism reaches Haaretz as well,” wrote Tuval Shalom. “With God’s help, [there will be] a Hamas operation that kills all of you, like the journalists in France,” wrote Ruti Hevroni.”

Spiegelman posted:

But the result has been, over a period of time, that the political cartoon has become a variant of the gag cartoon, The New Yorker one-liner cartoon underneath, in which certain targets are present as tropes, but just to make a kind of amusing gag, certainly not to take a position that could offend, outrage or provoke thought. It’s the opposite. It’s like, "Har, har, isn’t Obama a Spock-like egghead?" or "Isn’t it amusing that Congress cant’ get anything done?" And it stays at the level of amusement without enough charge to unpack it. Like at this point I think that Jon Stewart and, until recently, Colbert have taken up the slack of what political cartooning used to be and should do.

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NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, at its best, what do you think political cartooning should be and do? And how did you get into cartooning yourself?

ART SPIEGELMAN: OK, it should make a mess, by God. The cartoonist’s job is that—it’s why I was at a demonstration last night at Union Square in support of what happened—of Charlie Hebdo, with mostly French Americans, a few hundred of them, shouting. I felt really like in a minority, not because I’m a secular Jew, but because I’m an American in this demonstration that was mostly the French, feeling this very viscerally. And so, among all of the shouts of "Nous sommes Charlie Hebdo! Nous sommes Charlie Hebdo!" I’m there going, "Cartoonists’ lives matter! Cartoonists’ lives matter!" And this had to do specifically with that mandate to say the unsayable. It’s an important thing in order to be able to focus you on what needs to be said, if you want to be talking about the primacy of language, of verbal language.

Spiegelman posted:

Absolutely, yeah, like—well, one of the ways that censorship works in America is, A, there’s the economic censorship that I was describing before of newspapers aren’t going to want controversy, thank you, even though Thomas Nast did a good job of stirring things up, and we pay lip service to him with his Tweed Ring cartoon in history books. But one doesn’t point to his anti-Catholic cartoons that were also part of his mix at the time and were quite virulent. But the economic imperative is one thing, and the imperative of "We must be mature adults, and therefore we have the right to do it, but we mustn’t do it" is a dangerous one. It’s important. I believe that the best response to stupid speech is more speech until you find your way through this, hopefully without machine guns entering the picture, but until you actually sift it enough to understand what the picture is unearthed, because we’re dealing with things that are deep in our brain.

Exclamation Marx posted:

Haaretz cartoonist Noa Olchowski has received death threats in Israel over this cartoon