Comments on: When comics ATTACK! http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/07/28/when-comics-attack/ The comic that leaves a STAIN! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Bert Ferrero http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/07/28/when-comics-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-19218 Bert Ferrero Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:07:54 +0000 http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/?p=3379#comment-19218 The right seem to get off on the perverse race baiting one sided screaming match amongst themselves. This is why I think not just the Tea Party movement, and Republicanism are tied to the crazy contingent of the US. The discourse we could be having about better living, has slowly de-evolved into a shouting match of monkey's flinging poo. I've had to turn off the spew mouths on the cable, and local news channels. It gets to be a weight of negativity, and there are so many other things to be occupied with. The right seem to get off on the perverse race baiting one sided screaming match amongst themselves. This is why I think not just the Tea Party movement, and Republicanism are tied to the crazy contingent of the US. The discourse we could be having about better living, has slowly de-evolved into a shouting match of monkey’s flinging poo. I’ve had to turn off the spew mouths on the cable, and local news channels. It gets to be a weight of negativity, and there are so many other things to be occupied with.

]]> By: Danny Vegas http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/07/28/when-comics-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-19214 Danny Vegas Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:04:02 +0000 http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/?p=3379#comment-19214 I remember my psych prof-this was in the late 80's, he said we'd accomplished nothing with the civil rights movement, that racism was alive and well, that in the future we would be looking at turmoil which would make the southern violence look like a tea party(guy had a crystal ball-the wording he used). History recreates itself in 40-50 year patterns, each beginning(or ending)in a 5-10 year instance of great upheaval. Personally i've been waiting for a long time to see what these years would bring. Not long ago I thought it to be forced governmental reorganization, but its become increasingly apparent that the difficulties we now face are in fact racially based no matter what color you paint it. I'm personally ignorent regarding the motivation post Martin Luther King-I learned something, was I alone? "those who dont remember their history are destened to repeat it" I know too many college educated people who need to be reminded what a terriff is for, or what Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" was about. Education isnt the problem, memory and the appreciation of what has gone before is. I remember my psych prof-this was in the late 80′s, he said we’d accomplished nothing with the civil rights movement, that racism was alive and well, that in the future we would be looking at turmoil which would make the southern violence look like a tea party(guy had a crystal ball-the wording he used). History recreates itself in 40-50 year patterns, each beginning(or ending)in a 5-10 year instance of great upheaval. Personally i’ve been waiting for a long time to see what these years would bring. Not long ago I thought it to be forced governmental reorganization, but its become increasingly apparent that the difficulties we now face are in fact racially based no matter what color you paint it. I’m personally ignorent regarding the motivation post Martin Luther King-I learned something, was I alone? “those who dont remember their history are destened to repeat it” I know too many college educated people who need to be reminded what a terriff is for, or what Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” was about. Education isnt the problem, memory and the appreciation of what has gone before is.

]]> By: Jody http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/07/28/when-comics-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-19207 Jody Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/?p=3379#comment-19207 Excellent caricature of that drunken rage gorilla. And part of the reason their audience is so easily smothered by their rhetoric is the fact that they WANT to be bamboozled. These people are not interested in the truth so much as they are validation for their perpetually self-pitying worldview. Excellent caricature of that drunken rage gorilla.

And part of the reason their audience is so easily smothered by their rhetoric is the fact that they WANT to be bamboozled. These people are not interested in the truth so much as they are validation for their perpetually self-pitying worldview.

]]> By: Heretic http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/07/28/when-comics-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-19203 Heretic Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:23:53 +0000 http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/?p=3379#comment-19203 The thinly veiled racism that the tea baggers cater to was already present in their "base". They did not have to deceive their cohorts into taking a racist stance. All they had to do was tell them that it was ok to do so. Most of their kind would rather see this country fail than to see it succeed with a black president. Education will not help this mindset. The only thing that will is the fact that their close minded, racist, fundamentalist belief set does hinder them somewhat and will make them less able to compete in a increasingly vicious world. Most will discard their beloved predjuices as the luxury that they are leaving an increasingly marginalized, desperate, well-armed fringe of racist zealots. At that point, the problem will sort of solves itself when they finally go on a Beck and Limbaugh fueled suicidal rampage, leaving nothing but a few poorly written protest songs and the occasional cache of overpriced gold coins to remember them by. The thinly veiled racism that the tea baggers cater to was already present in their “base”. They did not have to deceive their cohorts into taking a racist stance. All they had to do was tell them that it was ok to do so. Most of their kind would rather see this country fail than to see it succeed with a black president. Education will not help this mindset. The only thing that will is the fact that their close minded, racist, fundamentalist belief set does hinder them somewhat and will make them less able to compete in a increasingly vicious world. Most will discard their beloved predjuices as the luxury that they are leaving an increasingly marginalized, desperate, well-armed fringe of racist zealots. At that point, the problem will sort of solves itself when they finally go on a Beck and Limbaugh fueled suicidal rampage, leaving nothing but a few poorly written protest songs and the occasional cache of overpriced gold coins to remember them by.

]]> By: Jorpho http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2010/07/28/when-comics-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-19200 Jorpho Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:57:17 +0000 http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/?p=3379#comment-19200 Education? Are you implying that political ills could be cured by mere schooling? That seems unlikely. Education? Are you implying that political ills could be cured by mere schooling? That seems unlikely.

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