Comments on: NY Post cartoon fall out http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/23/ny-post-cartoon-fall-out/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Scott Timmins http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/23/ny-post-cartoon-fall-out/#comment-79996 Scott Timmins Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:55:43 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4035#comment-79996 I really think you'd have to squint at it, so to speak, to deem it racist. Bottom line... 1) Some people get offended at at stop signs. 2) The humor was a stretch at best. Not Delonas' best work. I really think you’d have to squint at it, so to speak, to deem it racist.

Bottom line…

1) Some people get offended at at stop signs.

2) The humor was a stretch at best.

Not Delonas’ best work.

]]> By: John Cole http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/23/ny-post-cartoon-fall-out/#comment-79982 John Cole Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:53:35 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4035#comment-79982 This whole snitfit - the posturing, the phony outrage, the cynical opportunism, the clueless insensitivity and the media hyperventilation - would make for great comic opera. This whole snitfit – the posturing, the phony outrage, the cynical opportunism, the clueless insensitivity and the media hyperventilation – would make for great comic opera.

]]> By: Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/02/23/ny-post-cartoon-fall-out/#comment-79968 Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:47:50 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/?p=4035#comment-79968 While I see it can be interpreted offensive to some people who still have it diluted in their mind that race is an important factor. It is still, just a comic. Many of those same people i'm sure were concerned about the muslim community taking such a hard stance at depictions of cartoons that they didn't feel were appropriate. Several things i've noticed. The most racist people are the ones that still consider there is a racial inequality in our social structure and that Al Sharpton is really pushing it in finding things to fight for. I personally do not care. The cartoon was *not* funny and should have just been axed from being shown in the Post to begin with for just that. It probably would have made more sense if the visual representation of obama was a donkey denoting the democrats and he was on his knee's begging america to accept the plan. America, get over it. The social norm is that everyone is equal, the only people who are bringing it up otherwise are the ones fighting for a race cause that doesn't exist anymore but to those who are fighting the cause itself or the ones who were raised with the backwater mentality that people need to blame someone for their own personal adversities. I find comedians on the Comedy Network talking about what a different race does in situations to be more offensive. Slap the editor on the wrist for approving it for print and move on to something important like better financing for our educational system. - Phil While I see it can be interpreted offensive to some people who still have it diluted in their mind that race is an important factor. It is still, just a comic. Many of those same people i’m sure were concerned about the muslim community taking such a hard stance at depictions of cartoons that they didn’t feel were appropriate.

Several things i’ve noticed. The most racist people are the ones that still consider there is a racial inequality in our social structure and that Al Sharpton is really pushing it in finding things to fight for.

I personally do not care. The cartoon was *not* funny and should have just been axed from being shown in the Post to begin with for just that. It probably would have made more sense if the visual representation of obama was a donkey denoting the democrats and he was on his knee’s begging america to accept the plan.

America, get over it. The social norm is that everyone is equal, the only people who are bringing it up otherwise are the ones fighting for a race cause that doesn’t exist anymore but to those who are fighting the cause itself or the ones who were raised with the backwater mentality that people need to blame someone for their own personal adversities.

I find comedians on the Comedy Network talking about what a different race does in situations to be more offensive.

Slap the editor on the wrist for approving it for print and move on to something important like better financing for our educational system.

- Phil

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