Not Comics: The Simpsons Go To Auschwitz

This isn't something that appears in a notebook from a heavy stoner sitting the back of a 7th grade study hall, but an actual "controversial artist" of note, driving a thinkpiece by what I assume is someone who makes their living writing opinion articles. My dad wants to leap out of his grave to make a "slow news day" joke.

Weirdly, as I think the article points out, the family looks okay in that last one suspects-it's-supposed-to-be devastating photo, all things considered.

I could have the artist's intentions all wrong -- it could be an absurdist joke, for instance, or a commentary on the limits of media, or a sly dig at tropes like "go to Auschwitz." I mean, any recurring character on a TV show would be a bad, serious-face choice for something like this because the finality involved with the Holocaust is a big part of the horrifying element involved and characters like these simply can't convey the grimness of that end. Unless someone convinces me otherwise, this might up there for worst image-appropriation ever.
 
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