The Trump Administration has used baseless accusations of anti-Semitism to shake hundreds of millions of dollars out of colleges and universities, just as it’s extracting protection money out of law firms, media companies and, now big banks. Because they’ve paid out, however, the public believes these schools tolerated anti-Semitic hate crimes from pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Ironically, there were no credible, well-sourced incidents at those protests.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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In the first season of the much-missed animated series “The Boondocks,” there is a scene (about 15 minutes in) where a police officer, Ed Wuncler III, and Gin Rummy pull their weapons on an unarmed convenience store clerk. At first, the cop keeps shouting that he can’t see a gun. But after enough yelling from Wuncler and Rummy, the cop finally says, “I think I can see the gun now.”
I wonder what will be next.
Hmm. Yeah .. that was .. um .. hilarious.
Was always more of a “The Tick” guy myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcm-J7lQT3w
Food for thought, can one comprehend how uninteresting and un-entertaining an animated TV show based on Ted Rall’s comics would be? *shudder!* It’d have exactly two viewers, and I bet I know who!
It isn’t supposed to be hilarious. It’s educational, subversive, but it isn’t supposed to be hilarious. Any humor is incidental.
Joseph Goebbels wrote of the big lie. “The Boondocks” visualized that notion with this preposterous scene. Rewatch from the 15:00 mark. The policeman says, multiple times, that he doesn’t see a gun. But after Wuncler and Rummy scream at him long enough, he “thinks” he can see one. The big lie has, again, been successful.
Okay, I get it, Boondocks is at its heart meant to sort of illustrate the conflict of trying to be a Black person in America from numerous different angles, how the young and old deal with it, the affluent and not so well off, including a mixed race family. But ultimately it’s meant to be humorous, and this simply wasn’t that. If this clip is essentially what the teevee cartoon was, it’s easy to see why it didn’t survive.
I think a pretty good percentage of the public doesn’t think “these schools tolerated Anti-Semitic,” etc., but does think the schools are spinelessly grovelling to a Big Lie, and that, by doing so, they have totally destroyed their reputation for intellectual and moral integrity.
The Narrative,” of course, claims otherwise, but “the narrative” has lost its zing with that same increasing share of the public.