Steve Benson Cartoon On GOP Attacked As Out Of Bounds

Here's a good summary article on complaints received concerning a Steve Benson cartoon comparing GOP policies to Ariel Castro, accused of keeping women as slaves.

I'm always a bit fascinated by the kind of rhetoric employed in these cases. On the one hand, of course all cartoons are open to criticism. This include criticisms of distortion via excess and plain old impropriety. I'm also sympathetic to the point that criticism of content is necessary in a world that tends to view these things through a default mechanism of relativism where all opinions are equal simply by being opinions.

On the other hand, a lot of these complaints have less to do with the outrage about the actual crucial element involved and exist more as a sort of opportunistic defense of a set of polices one feels are correct or that represents their own "team."

In this case, I don't see how this is out of bounds or an exploitation of the women involved. I'm not sure it's the best, most enlightening cartoon, though.
 
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