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onwardsand upwards

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20. Now you've done it!
Wed Jan 30, 2013, 06:43 AM
Jan 2013

You've gone all the way to equating it with racism!

This is precisely the sort of rhetoric that is so unhelpful and divisive. Instead of discussing whether or not the cartoon points to a truth, you are tarring the messenger with the accusation of racism.

Here's an analogous situation to put this into perspective. Suppose the year is 1938, and a cartoonist depicts Hitler as a monster massacring Jews, on a day that happens to commemorate an event that is very sensitive to Germans. Someone in your role (if you're able to make the abstraction) would be saying: "Depicting Hitler in this way is anti-aryan, because of the timing."

This, of course, is ludicrous -- but entirely analogous to the position you are taking.

Do you see it?

What the Fuck is ant-Semitic about the TRUTH? CBGLuthier Jan 2013 #1
Such a phony! procon Jan 2013 #5
I don't see it as anti Jewish notadmblnd Jan 2013 #2
Scarfe apologised for not knowing it was Holocaust day dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #3
Calling this cartoon "anti-semitic' is nonsensical and disingenuous onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #4
A couple things HERVEPA Jan 2013 #7
A curious couple ... onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #15
The "common" word being misunderstood is "anti-Semitic." Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #16
Well, I learned something today! onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #18
The cartoon may not be anti-Semitic, but the timing is suspect. Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #19
Now you've done it! onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #20
No, you have done it. Missed the point! Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #21
Now we're getting somewhere! onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #22
Perhaps we are getting somewhere; we shall see. Behind the Aegis Jan 2013 #23
Yes, yes, ... onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #24
It is the blood that makes it antisemitic. OldEurope Jan 2013 #6
He isn't drinking it. This isn't even remotely "blood libel." eom leveymg Jan 2013 #10
The blood here is not about the "Blood Libel", its about the killing of Palestinians. Arabs ..... marble falls Jan 2013 #8
Grotesque, yes. But, anti-Netanyahu & anti-Occupation Wall is not anti-semitic. leveymg Jan 2013 #9
Obama ... GeorgeGist Jan 2013 #11
If the art style has a familiar look to you ... brett_jv Jan 2013 #12
Thanks for the Pink Floyd Wall connection onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #17
The toon is grotesque but is only anti apartheid. DavidWD72 Jan 2013 #13
I wonder how he feels about all those cartoons with Middle Easterners strapped with bombs? Ash_F Jan 2013 #14
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