July 19, 2008

Even Barack Obama said it: It's just a cartoon. I'm not sure the cartoon was as well thought out as The New Yorker might suggest, but in the end, it's a cartoon based on satire and therefore, protected by the First Amendment. All arguments end there. Might I add, however, that the concerns of the Obama supporters smacks a little too much of hypersensitivity. There has already been a backlash to Obama cartoons and in particular, one which depicts Obama as Curious George. Supporters, as well as those sensitive to equating black people to monkeys, charge that these images are racist. In the case of the New Yorker cartoon, it's a concern that the image feeds into the rumor about Obama being a secret Muslim. Most of us laugh it off, but not everyone is buying into the humor. It's interesting that we've been fine with images of George W. Bush depicted as a monkey and worse, but the hysterical left-wing minority finds great insult when the same treatment is applied to their hero. I get the historical reference of equating blacks to monkeys, really I do. I also understand the sensitivities of Muslims since 9/11, but I'm afraid that we are sliding into the same intolerance that we accuse Islamic nations of perpetrating . In the past, a disagreeable cartoon was met with a letter to the editor. Now, it's a case of pulling out the big words like "tasteless" and "disgusting," followed by "end my subscription" and calls for the cartoonist to be fired. If you get enough people angry, especially militant minorities, then look out for pickets outside the newspaper building. Or, if you just happen to be Danish, demands for your head on a platter and I mean that literally. Should the hysterical faction win (and they appear to be doing just that,) then expect more editorial cartoonists to be silenced, as editors begin hesitating regarding what is acceptable. In polite society, we don't stone people to death, like over in those other "less-sophisticated countries." No, we just quietly ask them to stop submitting and gently close the door, knowing full-well that we would have been kinder to publicly stone them. It's a cartoon. Get over it. And lay off the coffee (or Rooibos tea, if you just happen to be a left-wing fruitcake.)

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