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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis cartoon was actually published in an actual newspaper
By Gary Varvel, in the Indianapolis Star:
They do know other people can see this, right?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)cartoons, they can be quite provocative.
Spazito
(50,393 posts)all too often racist as well.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,648 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)him unmistakeably Latino/ethnic.
The paper photoshopped it out.
Warpy
(111,292 posts)Great catch, though.
madokie
(51,076 posts)Ykcutnek
(1,305 posts)underpants
(182,843 posts)From an iPhone 4
arcane1
(38,613 posts)On the outrage meter it's not making much of a dent...
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Thanks for the hint.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)(breaking in) thru the window , not a door
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Actual AP cutline (paraphrase from memory): "Dan Quayle, left, holds a pumpkin next to his head at a country fair..."
lame54
(35,295 posts)LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)I saw the photo, still hot after it came out of the WirePhoto machine. LMAO.
underpants
(182,843 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)The deer in the headlights look...the slow speech pattern when answering truthfully...
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)except for a pitied few progressive liberals, and those bums are just as bad as the coloreds. And the victims, of course, but they don't count.
Americans are philosophically Fadists. When left-leaning Actor/Celebrities were more fashionable than skeevy politicians, they were horrified by the plight of those poor "People-of-Color". Now that Politicians are "sexy", especially radical-right politicians, it's all about those Shifty Darkies and Job-Stealing Mesican(sic) Drug-Pushers and the Disease-Ridden Homos.
Face it, our white "Independent" fellow countrymen are intellectually lazy, morally flexible, and honor-challenged; thus, they are predictable and easily led. Since a large percentage of politicians are manipulative sociopaths, they are most willing to take advantage of those conditions.
The fate of this nation is, and always has been, in the hands of chronic gossipers. Control the gossip, control the election.
Politics isn't nearly as complex as is let on, you just have to be honest in order to understand it
To my LGBT friends, I'm very glad you're getting marital rights, but that's a political bargain-chip just like Desegregation and Affirmative Action were in the '60s and '70s. Ask the Brothers and Sisters how that's working out now. Gay marriage is what they give up to retain minimum wage and non-meaningful immigration reform and to abolish unions.
I mostly vote in protest and to spite our aristocrats-w/o-titles.
villager
(26,001 posts)Intellectually honest?
Emotionally honest?
that eliminates about 97% of our countrymen...
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)So this mouthbreather Varvel thinks brown people will be coming to steal his bland, antibiotic-infused turkey and his GMO dinner rolls?
( Quite the spread there, Varvel. You people eat anything green? Peas? Beans? Not Broccoli, of course, even I know racists don't touch that healthy stuff....)
Sorry to break it to you, Varvel, but they'll be cooking far better food on Thanksgiving, even in a sharecroppers hovel, than that "feast" you've scrawled out there with your FoxNoos Official Master Race Crayon Set.
What a TOOL.
Wella
(1,827 posts)Of conservative attitudes.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)The guy has a portfolio.
He is not a satirist.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Because you KNOW how it is every Thanksgiving, when illegal immigrant start pouring through your windows looking for a free meal. Happens EVERY YEAR! YUP.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)No dog whistles there!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Not the worst, but usually pretty bad.
Here's another example of RW toons
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)That's what I see.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)by still more immigrants.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)And the guy even signs his name to something so pathetic? Luckovich he most certainly is not.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Plenty of Turkey...
mnhtnbb
(31,396 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,929 posts)THE most ironic comment of all.
spanone
(135,851 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)they edited out the moustache and kept the cartoon. Because that's what was offensive about it
Indianapolis newspaper alters, then deletes racist Thanksgiving cartoon following complaints
Responding to criticism that a cartoon depicting undocumented immigrants coming through a window to share Thanksgiving dinner with a white family was racist, an Indiana newspaper edited out the stereotyped housebreakers mustache, ostensibly to make the cartoon seem less racist.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/indianapolis-newspaper-alters-then-deletes-racist-thanksgiving-cartoon-following-complaints/
Here's the original:
Gothmog
(145,374 posts)The cartoon has been retracted http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/indy-star-erred-in-publishing-immigrant-thanksgiving-cartoon
The cartoon by Gary Varvel showed the white family's patriarch holding a turkey at the head of the table and saying "Thanks to the President's immigration order, we'll be having extra guests this Thanksgiving." A man in a mustache and two others are shown climbing into the family's dining room through a window.
The cartoon was in bad taste and the paper was called out on it.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)malaise
(269,087 posts)didn't post it.