one for lather and his bitch tori.

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[kko.livejournal.com]

a bit heavy handed

[borgseawolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you could say that much in three panels.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

A cartoon even.

[wight1984.livejournal.com]

Quite accurate in a number of cases.

I found it annoying that when Obama was elected so many people suggested that it meant that black people in America can't complain of racism any more. As if having a black president means that all racism has disappeared.

[weswilson]

I keep hearing these right-wing blowhards expressing irony over the left's idea that racism is over. But I never heard any left-wing pundits saying racism is over. Who started this strawman?

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

I think a few mindless cable news talking heads probably did say something like that in the immediate aftermath of Obama being elected. And since the right assumes the media is "the left"... well, you can see how these memes start.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

I am annoyed by Tori's newly discovered love of trolling too, but calling her (???) a bitch is excessively personal and nasty. Just my two cents.

Rise above, and all that.

(Except for badlydrawnjeff... I still think he's a condescending sh*thead (http://community.livejournal.com/politicartoons/1590970.html?thread=33960122#t33960122).)

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Tori'a a him. Badlydrawn may be condescending from time to time, but at least he's got a brain. I'm pretty sure we can turn on the condescension when it serves us.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

From time (12:00:01 am) to time (11:59:59 pm).

[i.livejournal.com]

calling her "someone's bitch" is different from calling her "a bitch".

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Lather = Beavis; Tori = Butt-Head.

Butt-Head's "I have an idea" is a dusty 15-watt night light; Beavis's is a cracked shard with one bit of wire in a rusty socket that's not plugged into anything.

[chasovschik.livejournal.com]

Is any posting of non-liberal cartoons considered a trolling here?

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

It is when they admit (http://community.livejournal.com/politicartoons/1593780.html?thread=34005172#t34005172) they're simply posting to start shit. That is, literally, the definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)) of trolling.

[chasovschik.livejournal.com]

Well, in according with Wiki it probably is. Never liked that definition, though. Posting irrelevant stuff is on thing, and posting something controversial - totally another. Without that there will be no discussions. Wouldn't it be boring just to pat each other's backs?

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Hope not. Some really fun discussions happen more often than not in right-wing cartoons than in left wing ones. Some really great, devastating left cartoons have gone nearly uncommented, whereas some right wing slapfights are epic.

That's a fine balance though. Some of what lather posts and Tori have posted recently have been marginally NSFW.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

and he always has to raise his hand and argue some inane point with the professor

and he's worn polo shirts since he was potty-trained

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

Again, it's not that we're less racist, we're just better at hiding it. Give people anonymity on the internet and it all comes out (cf. 4chan).

Or if people assume you already agree with them, as in my customer who said something like, "Hope they don't put that nigger Obama on any coin."

Ah yes, I love you Kansas.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

it's just racism 2.0

at best obama will be called "one of the good ones"

a figure white people can point at and say "why can't you be like him? talk nice to us, don't raise your voice, have a non-threatening family. we might let you join our country club then. oh you also have to look like you just have a tan, we're not quite ready for really dark ones."

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

White people like black people who act like white people (see also: Tiger Woods).

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

4chan isn't racist, they just use racism as part of the overarching joke that is 4chan.

[donolectic.livejournal.com]

It is the cancer that is killing /b/.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

I like pie!

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

No wai!

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

It makes me so warm in my heart that white people, especially pretty white ladies, are proud of me! I just love this post-racial society. I hope someone pets me on my head and tells me my hair is really pretty tomorrow!