Quinton and I have strong ties which were forged within the hellish fires of our high school newspaper, and the interesting thing is for all our personality similarities (a sick, twisted sense of humor is one of them), we have very different views and philosophies of the purpose of cartoons, media and responsibility of the media thereof we have different ideas of what makes good satire. A good discussion to be had at his blog.
However, I've been wondering what other people have thought about the New Yorker cover. Is it offensive? Or is it clever satire? Or do you simply not care? Even if it's just a "Don't care. Stop talking about politics, you ivory tower elitist bastard" in the comments, I'd be interested to know what everyone's opinions are about this whole matter.
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Hahahaha...two comments: 1) That first cartoon definitely makes Obama look like black Bush (if anyone has seen Chapelle, they'll get that reference) with the big ol' ears and facial construction. Seriously, take a look at Beeler's Bush and compare the two. Almost identical. (Okay, not quite, but still.) 2) I thought that second cartoon was hilarious, but I do think context matters. For more on context relating to race, check out this discussion.
Ah, I totally agree with you in comment 1. I noticed that myself. Hilarious, really.
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