02/19/2009 01:57:54 AM EST

NYP monkey cartoon: Racist? Irrelevant

posted by Perry

The New York Post monkey cartoon

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Is the cartoon racist?

My opinion is that you're all knucklehead for thinking that's relevant at all

 

What's relevant is that the cartoon is intentionally on the fence and ambiguous for a reason...press.

 

Now everyone is talking about this cartoon and the New York Post

 

If you were a political cartoonist, and you wanted to generate controversy, what is something you would think to do if you had no moral qualms about it? DO something vaguely racial about Barack Obama...duh

 

It's like that Vogue cover or whatever it was with Lebron James that made him look like a gorilla, or that Vanity Fair cover with Obama and Michelle lookin' like radicals and bumpin' fists. It was deliberately controversial to get free marketing

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Well?
You're right, and when you're right you're right....and you're right! 66%
You're wrong, THATS RACIST (insert GIF of black kid here) 16%
lol wut 16%
Fuck you Murdoch 0%
Lieberman stabbed us in the back 0%

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NYP monkey cartoon: Racist? Irrelevant | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
Racist? (none / 0)

by Twba on 02/19/2009 02:20:29 AM EST

At first.... (none / 0)
i thought they were making fun of policmen in some way, like they are bad.  This makes sense because from my understanding, policmen will suffer under obama and the stimulus but not quite sure....Then i thought that it must be racist because they called obama a monkey. But then i saw the story on the chimp being killed in real life and saw that the artist is just comparing both stories, the artist is totally not racist, but if he lived in hickville usa, then we might have another story.  But given the this instance, and he lives in ny, hes not guilty(not racist).

by AndrewInNY on 02/19/2009 03:59:34 AM EST

X.X what does living in ny have to do with it? (none / 0)

i live on an army base in georgia, so if i , someone that is of mixed racial blood whose family is part black , native american and mexican.... if i were to write that does it mean i'm racist against my blaack half?

it doesn't matter were they are from racists are everywhere. its just an edgy cartoon. i don't like that it was in a newspaper and not in a joker magazine or such but eh,the world is changing.

by jdiabla on 02/19/2009 05:41:14 AM EST

NYP monkey cartoon: Racist? Irrelevant | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
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