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11 months ago
in With Friends Like These…… on Jack and Jill Politics
Heres why I think this is a good thing:
They New Yorker brings all the worse parts of the Obama myths together and puts it out there on a National Forum, knowing full well people are gonna holla over it, but theres discussion there and generally things get resolved
This is the summertime and theres time to discuss all these things. The fact that Obama is in this position to begin can hopefully simmer some people down, but I cannot back any politician before I make sure my Constitution is intact, I dont care what color he is.
Im not gonna fight Obama's fights for him--this is the job, people, he asked for this.
These things arent true and by bringing them all up at once you can lump all of these arguments into "The Cartoon Argument" and move forward--the whole point of it being a cartoon means youll the people who are dumb enough to think its true and you can work on them.
Because I refuse to even discuss these topics in polite company and refute the facts when I see or hear them--theres no more power to this issue.
This is what we call a "head fake"/
They New Yorker brings all the worse parts of the Obama myths together and puts it out there on a National Forum, knowing full well people are gonna holla over it, but theres discussion there and generally things get resolved
This is the summertime and theres time to discuss all these things. The fact that Obama is in this position to begin can hopefully simmer some people down, but I cannot back any politician before I make sure my Constitution is intact, I dont care what color he is.
Im not gonna fight Obama's fights for him--this is the job, people, he asked for this.
These things arent true and by bringing them all up at once you can lump all of these arguments into "The Cartoon Argument" and move forward--the whole point of it being a cartoon means youll the people who are dumb enough to think its true and you can work on them.
Because I refuse to even discuss these topics in polite company and refute the facts when I see or hear them--theres no more power to this issue.
This is what we call a "head fake"/
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There's no question in my mind that this cover makes fun of what it perceives to be stupid white Americans.
I also have little doubt that those Americans targeted by this cover are not so stupid as to not realize they're being caricatured and looked down upon by the cultural elite.
I don't see this primarily as a conflict between liberal white and black America (although because the artist wasn't looking in that direction, I think he f'ed up). It's an intramural battle between educated and lower-class white America, and it doesn't look too good from that angle either.