Why the fuss over the NY Post political cartoon?Follow

Pathetic over reaction from all conserned.

Oh, the White Man's Burden.

You mean people protesting, questioning the portrayal of a president? Free speech goes both ways. It's not just for self-righteous white men to bemoan the oversensitiveness of others. If you really believe that satire is supposed to offend, even poorly conceived ones such as the unfunny cartoon you referenced, you shouldn't bemoan the fact that it did provoke the reaction of people who apparently matter to the NY Post.

I mean, Jesus, Natalie Maines made one minor complaint about the president in England and republicans were out in force, steamrolling her records and banning it from the radio. That was all par for the course, wasn't it. That and Freedom Fries.

Free speech isn't just designed for you to throw your sh*t around like a fecophiliac. It's an interactive process. You give sh*t, you best be ready to take it.


Edited, Feb 21st 2009 2:05am by Annabella

Who is calling for censorship here, Totem? Are you trying to take any controversy and cry oppression? As if the right is being silenced, especially after the hyperreaction of republicans in the last eight years, which included the kowtowing of the press. I didn't forget those "press conferences" Bush had or the insinuations from the right that liberals aren't real Americans and maybe should be shot or jailed or liberals should be tried for sedition.
Don't be such a hypocrite with a short memory.

Of course, I think the right is looking to use this for political mileage so they can seem oppressed by the big bad liberal media and gain some semblance of political traction. Or have something fun to write in their columns for the Rush fanboys.

I think that there is a misconception out there that somehow white men are the only people freely criticized. It's a myth. We all get criticized. They can characterize Obama however and you know, people--even black people-- are entitled to express their feelings. The comic artist, just as you, will survive the withering disappointment of not getting a lolly every time you go to the bathroom.

I survived eight years being a ***** liberal woman with Bush in the white house with all with the sketchy, Godless, devil-worshipping, entitlement grabbing, PC-being, Europhile, terrorist supporting, blame America firsting and maybe fisting, but in sensible shoes that apparently it implies. You republicans can survive people being protesting when they think a black man is being portrayed as an ape in a cartoon that doesn't really make much @#%^ing sense.





Asking to clarifying the point or feeling offended or people thinking that they are owed an apology /=censorship. It's people expressing their opinion.





Edited, Feb 21st 2009 2:51am by Annabella

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Wait, are you still in Angola?

Edited, Feb 21st 2009 4:33am by Annabella

There is no president in England!