First they came for the cartoonists whose style and politics were different than mine…and I said nothing. You know the rest.
First They Came for the Purposefully Provocative Danish Cartoonists…
First they came for the cartoonists whose style and politics were different than mine…and I said nothing. You know the rest.
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The survival dilemma of systemically individualistic isolationism … as opposed to actually composing something funny AND relevant ~
This is why being obscure should never be considered an acceptable compromise to humorous insight.
DanD
About the only thing I hear “said,” or implied, in a “timely manner” is: “kill all 1.7 billion professed Muslims and then we will assuredly have eliminated the problematic 0.001%” … who are still only ~0.001% as depraved as official US government policy, which uses >50% of your income tax for perpetual global war, comprehensive domestic surveillance and full scale internal war on the poor … and nature itself.
In the spirit of their recent conference, (sponsored by Pamela Geller’s bona-fide hate group, http://tinyurl.com/pcszetg ) we can only assume the “right-wing Texas cartoonists” put up a massive backdrop of the image linked below as an example and inspiration for them to produce effective comic images. http://tinyurl.com/l8gt4dj
Disclosure: I am a proud “fallen-away” Catholic and I find the image truly hilarious and bound to infuriate a majority of “practicing” Catholics … and maybe some Protestants, too. I consider organized religion a
co-scourge of the planet along with capitalism. But I’d suggest that the more appropriately barbed the anti-religion cartoon, the less likely it will enlighten those who need it most. It is the nature, purpose and intent of religion to smother independent thought in order to command a population for power and profit. Cartoons defiling the central personalities of these cults will do nothing but drive the oppressed more firmly under the control of those who emotionally and intellectually enslave them.
Yes we have the right of free speech. We also have the more important right to life but even that doesn’t keep people from being murdered. “Law enforcement” is retroactive to crime. Let’s hope the families of the slain who “courageously” drew for their already “fallen,” or, conversely, rabidly tribalistic, audiences will someday find “closure.”
Okay,you got me. I was rolling my eyes right up until the last panel and WHAMMO!
(This may be a duplicate)
About the only thing I hear “said,” or implied, in a “timely manner” is: “kill all 1.7 billion professed Muslims and then we will assuredly have eliminated the problematic 0.001%” … who are still only ~0.001% as depraved as official US government policy, which uses >50% of your income tax for perpetual global war, comprehensive domestic surveillance and full scale internal war on the poor … and nature itself.
In the spirit of their recent conference, (sponsored by Pamela Geller’s bona-fide hate group, tinyurl.com/pcszetg ) we can only assume the “right-wing Texas cartoonists” put up a massive backdrop of the image linked below as an example and inspiration for them to produce effective comic images. tinyurl.com/l8gt4dj
Disclosure: I am a proud “fallen-away” Catholic and I find the image truly hilarious and bound to infuriate a majority of “practicing” Catholics … and maybe some Protestants, too. I consider organized religion a
co-scourge of the planet along with capitalism. But I’d suggest that the more appropriately barbed the anti-religion cartoon, the less likely it will enlighten those who need it most. It is the nature, purpose and intent of religion to smother independent thought in order to command a population for power and profit. Cartoons defiling the central personalities of these cults will do nothing but drive the oppressed more firmly under the control of those who emotionally and intellectually enslave them.
Yes we have the right of free speech. We also have the more important right to life but even that doesn’t keep people from being murdered. “Law enforcement” is retroactive to crime. Let’s hope the families of the slain who “courageously” drew for their already “fallen,” or, conversely, rabidly tribalistic, audiences will someday find “closure.”
Cartoonists are soft targets.
Revenge in response to murdered family members by drone is not possible, so soft targets get attacked.
The US government would have you believe that we are not at war with the Middle Easterners. It’s so easy to forget that the US government is at war, so there’s the surprise when someone gets hit by return fire.
Killing cartoonists is nearly as easy as doing drone murders, so there are no heroes on either side, just people trying to hit soft targets in the hero-less bureaucracy of industrial warfare. It’s not about free speech, it’s about violently attacking symbols of the other on both sides.
Don’t think the g-men wouldn’t love it if some minority (Arab, Black, etc., …) would attempt a foolhardy direct attack on them so as to justify the minority’s obliteration by them.
I happen to frequent the website of the cartoonist who claims to believe in «punching up, not down», just as I frequent Ted’s site here, but it’s been many years since I’ve seen any evidence of the former’s punching up. For six days a week, the site reruns cartoons published four decades ago or more ; reading them I notice very little punching at all….
Henri
Ted, do you really feel solidarity with conservative or liberal cartoonists? Propaganda is a weapon of war. Figure out which side you’re on. Please don’t elevate form and process over substance; that’s what liberals do. Free speech for the sake of free speech is pretty worthless.