Another Campus Controversy: University of Arizona Cartoon Labeled Anti-Semitic

According to media reports, on Tuesday the Arizona Daily Wildcat published Joseph Topmiller's cartoon featuring a restaurant credit slip with a seven percent tip apparently left by someone named "Mark Goldfarb." Underneath that was the message "Attention all crappy-tipping Jews!!! Just because you're 'screwing' the server... does not mean it's a mitzvah."

Negative on-campus response was immediate: complaints from students, student leaders, school administration, directors of the campus' Jewish Studies programs -- about 30 formal complaints in total. Some of them that took the form of letters to the paper can be found here. While the paper ran an apology yesterday, editors claim they did vet the cartoon and that it wasn't malicious in intent. The humor, they say, was directed at people who think Jewish people are cheap rather than at Jewish people being cheap. Opinion writers at the publication offered up a variety of takes here. A number of letters in support of the cartoon's publication from various points of view (the sophistication and actual target of the humor, the principles behind free speech, "lighten up") can be found here.

Topmiller's latest comic can be found in the paper today. I believe the offending cartoon has been eliminated from the paper's archives, but Dirk Deppey has a copy up in today's Journalista! if you want to scroll down a bit.
 
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