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Fried chicken is another big one
Boston Herald prints Obama cartoon with 'watermelon' reference
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Zantetsuken
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Fried chicken
Print media is desperately trying to survive and has been crap for quite awhile now. It's all tabloid sensationalism with no boundaries, even racism.
It's sad because there was a time when some newspapers were considered an accurate and trustworthy source of info. Now it's all garbage and not even the slightest bit honorable. Newspapers are now pathetic.
davepoobond
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now i'm thinking about what it would be like if the guy said "fried chicken toothpaste." i'd probably be grossed out on top of it all.
HeisenbergLannister
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Sho_Nuff82
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Are you guys being for real? The joke here is that the white house intruder is racist. How does that make the Herald racist?
FFS
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
what exactly did the intruder do that was reported on that was racist?
you can't just associate the guy as being a racist and expect it to be funny. the context of the picture somehow matters, but not what he says?
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Are you being for real? It's mocking Obama, not the intruder. Why would a political cartoon mock the intruder? That's not what political cartoons are about. It's even in the apology.
I know, I agree. I don't know why stating something that exists in society is problematic. If the president was actually using watrermelon toothpaste in the comic that would be clear cut. The comic isn't funny but I think it's being blown out of proportion.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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dave is ok
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The joke isn't even that the intruder is racist. The flavor of the toothpaste is completely irrelevant to the punchline - which is that the intruder is in the personal bathroom of the president making small talk with him.
impetuous_silly
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IT IS MOCKING OBAMA; It's attacking him by proxy of his associations. i.e. the secret service that work for him, the whole White House in general, his political party.
There are white latinos. White latinos can be racist againdt black latinos as well.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
that can be accomplished a lot better in an infinite amount of other ways
"did you catch the basketball game?"
"can i borrow a pair of your boxers?"
yeah, let's go with watermelon toothpaste.
Sho_Nuff82
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They are mocking the absurdity of someone getting so close to the president. The punchline is him being in the president's personal bathroom, making inappropriate 'casual' conversation to a shocked Obama. The racism is just the cherry on top.
Writing a racist character is not = racism.
Here is the rest of the 'apology':
They apologized because of the backlash, that does not mean the backlash was justified just because people don't understand context.
No, he can't.
He can't use watermelon, fried chicken, running fast or the size of his dick. These are things known throughout the Western world as racial stereotypes, and can't be used 'innocently'.
Came here for exactly this. I leave satisfied.
impetuous_silly
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The cartoon is actually lumping racism with insanity; with mental ineptitude. The guy that broke into the White House was reported to have PTSD. Overall, the cartoon is portraying racism negatively. I repeat: the cartoon is not condoning racism.
Slamtastic
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CadetMahoney
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I bet no one gets punished or nuffin over this, setting a precedent to racist news corps about how much they can get away with.
This is an international forum.
Squirrel Killer
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That's a shade of grey that most people won't note even though it's almost certainly the intention. It's to make the Secret Service's lapses look all the more ridiculous, not to disempower a minority.
Thats some mental gymnastics to turn a pretty straightforward one joke one panel comic into a commentary piece on the connection of racism to PTSD and mental illness.
But I guess thats a more likely scenario then the artist trying to throw in a racist jab.
Red Mage
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...do what?
taffy. mention taffy in conjunction with any minority and watch people go nuts.
It's true.
Zen_Arcade
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Grape juice and alternatively, grape drink are both drinks that people in America use as racial stereotypes against black people.
bean breath
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He went too far. Get it? It wasn't bad enough that the intruder made it all the way into the White House bathroom and helped himself to a bath but to add a racist comment on top of that? Now he's gone too far.
Get it?
It's a play on the meaning of 'going too far' with regards to the lengths he trespassed into the White House and... moving from polite conversation to insulting remarks?
I don't know.
Red Mage
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LAUGHTREY
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stufte
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LAUGHTREY
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You know, half this thread is people explaining to other people the stereotype. Maybe it's not THAT far out there that this dude didn't know?
stufte
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When it's your job to write/draw political cartoons, it's kind of your job to be on the pulse of politics and society/culture.
I'm not saying he didn't know what he was doing, but if he didn't he's not very good at his job, especially in America.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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The cartoonist for some reason writes a character for the intruder, and he's racist for some reason? Nonsense. It's plain as day.
adamsappel
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I can sort of believe this. I don't think the intruder is supposed to be a racist. I think he's being portrayed as overly-familiar, rather than threatening. However, if you are so clueless that you don't realize combining watermelons and black people in your cartoon could be seen as racist, maybe political cartooning (and the subtlety it often requires) isn't your forte.
malingenie
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I'm gonna go ahead and say tacos. As a South American I am supposed to fucking love tacos, even though I'm not Mexican.
I fucking love tacos.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Holy shit! lol, that's amazing. You really can't make this stuff up.
LAUGHTREY
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I'm not saying I believe this poor deflection of an excuse to get away with racism, but if we're really giving him the benefit of the doubt, how does not knowing about racial stereotypes make him stupid?
Somebody who can't list every single racial stereotype off the top of their head shouldn't be the asshole here, it just means they don't think about that crap.
ActStriker
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It's the Herald.
LAUGHTREY
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It's low hanging fruit. It's a lot easier to rile up people about welfare and weed than it is to try to take the time to explain to them about the actual things he does wrong, and the GOP mostly agrees with the egregious foreign policy anyway.
Mechanized
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Which also shows he knew previously that people took offense to the obvious as fuck racism and decided if he could slide it under the radar and get away with it.
I agree. All you need to do is have the intruder say something - anything. Heck "hey, would you pass me the toothpaste?" would work just as well.
The humor is in the fact that the intruder got into the bathroom undetected long enough to start taking a bath, not in what he says. Sheesh.
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