Go, Read: Al Nisbet Opinion Piece On Recent, Criticized Cartoons

The cartoonist Al Nisbet responds to recent criticism of a pair of cartoons trafficking in specific stereotypes here. It's basically every argument that usually gets trotted out when someone is accused of using racist imagery. It's weird how the conversations are shaped here: the racism is on the one hand such a giant bugaboo that its force and implications distort any sort of discussion, but at the same time we choose to define what racism means in such narrow terms that the conversation tends to be about matter-of-fact denial that whatever action being discussed clearly doesn't fit those terms. I wonder if there isn't a lost opportunity for wider discussion in these sorts of cases. Then again, folks can hardly discuss big-budget movie plot points without shrieking at each other, so I guess that a nuanced talk about an actual, real-world issue being beyond us shouldn't surprise.
 
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