tone deaf.

dellinger63 · #1 02-19-2009, 09:09 AM

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That is so racist and so funny all at the same time!!!

I agree and expect Al Sharpton to be in a neon colored jogging suit today. Can't believe it made it in.

SCUDSBROTHER · #2 02-19-2009, 09:06 PM

What do you think is funny? You mean funny like laughing at the white-trash character Brad Pitt played in the movie Kalifornia? In other words..."the messenger" ...not "the message."

Antitrust32 · #3 02-20-2009, 09:06 AM

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What do you think is funny? You mean funny like laughing at the white-trash character Brad Pitt played in the movie Kalifornia? In other words..."the messenger" ...not "the message."

I think its funny because I find controversial humor to be funny. I still think its racist and did not belong in the newspaper... but I'm still going to laugh.

I tell jokes about all different races and genders and sexuality. Jokes are funny.

MaTH716 · #4 02-19-2009, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

I agree and expect Al Sharpton to be in a neon colored jogging suit today. Can't believe it made it in.

The protest is on. Tomorrow in front of the Post's headquarters in Manhattan. Neon colored jogging suit is optional.

timmgirvan · #5 02-19-2009, 10:57 PM

Racist? the fact that a chimp could have written the stimulus bill has nothing to do with our beloved president......I mean...really! How politically thin-skinned can you be?

hi_im_god · #6 02-19-2009, 11:52 PM

it's pretty disingenuous to pretend that black's haven't been portrayed as apes and monkey's in cartoon's by those trying to make a point of their alleged inferiority. for hundreds of years.

more troubling is the post's response which completely ignores the issue.

if i tried to post that cartoon here with a "guess derby trail needs someone else to post anti-turk rants" caption, how long would it last?

and nothing personal scuds. i think you're nuts but that has nothing to do with your skin tone.

at best, it was tone deaf. but more likely the tone was intended. which is even more troubling.

timmgirvan · #7 02-19-2009, 11:58 PM

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it's pretty disingenuous to pretend that black's haven't been portrayed as apes and monkey's in cartoon's by those trying to make a point of their alleged inferiority. for hundreds of years.

more troubling is the post's response which completely ignores the issue.

if i tried to post that cartoon here with a "guess derby trail needs someone else to post anti-turk rants" caption, how long would it last?

and nothing personal scuds. i think you're nuts but that has nothing to do with your skin tone.

at best, it was tone deaf. but more likely the tone was intended. which is even more troubling.

...I think you're projecting...and that's dangerous

hi_im_god · #8 02-20-2009, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by timmgirvan

...I think you're projecting...and that's dangerous

just to be clear.

are you unaware that we have a black man as president or unaware that portraying black people as monkey's is a slander?

timmgirvan · #9 02-20-2009, 12:05 AM

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just to be clear.

are you unaware that we have a black man as president or unaware that portraying black people as monkey's is a slander?

WHO said it was portraying Obama??? A total idiot would feel that he could get away with that portrayal of Obama......more likely that he was trying to point out the IQ of the authors of the stimulus bill

#10 02-20-2009, 12:05 AM

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...I think you're projecting...and that's dangerous

wonder why they had two white cops doing the shooting on a street?

and why are they wide-eyed, kinda like "heck that may not have been
the right thing to do..."

Kinda reminds me of an incident a little while back.

SCUDSBROTHER · #11 02-20-2009, 02:13 AM

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and nothing personal scuds. i think you're nuts

Thank You (forseriously!!)

Antitrust32 · #12 02-20-2009, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Racist? the fact that a chimp could have written the stimulus bill has nothing to do with our beloved president......I mean...really! How politically thin-skinned can you be?

you really dont believe this do you? It had everything to do with our beloved President.

Still hilarious... but in bad taste.

Danzig · #13 02-20-2009, 10:27 AM

i didn't find the cartoon to be funny at all. but my first thought when i saw some thinking it was bashing our president was that i thought the attack was on our congress, they're the ones who wrote the bill...
at any rate, in poor taste all things considered.

Danzig · #14 02-20-2009, 12:17 PM

just read that the post apologized.

saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, but "to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.
and then i read this:

The Post is owned by News Corp., which also is the parent company of FOX News.

i didn't know that.

GBBob · #15 02-20-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig

just read that the post apologized.

saying the cartoon was meant to mock the federal economic stimulus bill, but "to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.
and then i read this:

[I]The Post is owned by News Corp., which also is the parent company of FOX News.[/i]
i didn't know that.

That's one of the reasons I take what they write with a grain of salt..much as the right treats the NY Times