Let me get this right...

[Indiana_Jones]

From the NZ Herald (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10557635)

So if one makes a cartoon like this (a rather lame one):


<img src="http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2009/02/18/image4809295.jpg">

It's deemed racist etc etc.



But when you do this:


<img src="http://greatparanoiac.files.wordpress.com/2006/04/bush_chimp.JPG">

No one gives a fuck.

Why's that?

Maybe Mr. Merde is right, it's just the WASP in me talking :bleh:

-Indy

[xwhatsit]

It's all a bit over the top as usual of course, but I think what pushes the civil rights people's buttons is the echoes of old racist abuse where African Americans were likened to apes (even in serious scientific circles -- they did things like measure skull circumfrence and brow ridges etc.). There wasn't ever stuff like that about white Americans so nobody sees a reference (imagined or not) and gets upset.

To me, though, the cartoon just looks like it's saying the original stimulus bill was crap and was about as good as what a monkey could do.

[MidnightMike]

From the NZ Herald (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10557635)

So if one makes a cartoon like this (a rather lame one):




-Indy


Holy shit!!!!

Its two murderous postman Pats !!!!

[Tank]

Difference being the intent.

Obama is being called a monkey because of his color (remember lines like - "they ruined a perfectly god monkey when they cut your tail off boy")

Bush was called a monkey because - well he had the intelligence of a chump.

Besides if you want a cartoon that really pisses people off go for uncle mohammad.

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/muhammeddrawingnewspaper1mm.jpeg

[Sully60]

Besides if you want a cartoon that really pisses people off go for uncle mohammad.

Mocchhhammed picture

I smell a fatwa a comin'!

[MisterD]

Obama is being called a monkey because of his color

No, that's just what Rev. Al Sharpton wants you to think. That angle never even occurred to me, I just read it as an attack on the intelligence of the Obamessiah...