What's accurate about this cartoon? I can get just as many statistics to show other races have just as many single parent homes as African American's do.
I very much enjoyed the cartoon. I have to say though that I enjoyed the comments even more. I love how people get so up in arms about racism. Look, sometimes it is okay to laugh at things that are funny. "OMG... I'm black and take offense to that!" If that is how you feel, great, but no one wants to hear about it on this website and i am willing to bet that no one cares. Now, if you were to say, "You turned a stereotype of my race into a funny cartoon. While I am able to shelf the race card for a few seconds to laugh, it is still racist." I am willing to bet that still, no one will care.
Sit back, smoke a bowl and enjoy shit that is funny. If you don't like it, keep it to yourself because most people are tired of hearing you claim racism. I started viewing people that call racism at the drop of a hat when I saw a news snippit of a man saying, and i quote "See, computers are racist because they make them so hard to use. They need to make them easy like TV, so people in the community can have good jobs. Computers are made by whites and Chinese, and they don't like it when we try to get a head." - Rakim Oakland
You want to know why racism is still around, read that quote again. A bank will end up hiring that guy to fill a quota. Yeah, racism is still around and kicking. It's people like him that perpetuate it.
I would Like to note that, all of the kids in the upper panel were all abnormally grotesque to enhance stereotypes, leading them all to be ugly, some by nature, some by proxy, but otherwise all in the same group.
In the lower panel, the singular black-skin boy is notably NOT 'grotesquified'(made-up word, don't bother correcting) into the African-American/Negro sterotype.
What does that imply? Not certain enough to say here, but please also consider how the sign in the lower panel SPECIFICALLY wishes his mother a Happy FATHER'S Day, and Indirectly at that! No insult is as insulting as the indirect and unintended and unknowingly PERSONAL insult, which to a divorced mother is exactly what that sign is.
I've seen and read enough of PK's work to know that everything has a reason and a meaning, albeit it is often an arbitrary or artistic one, but he always has a GOOD reason for the differences in the main points of his comic.
I am not claiming PK is deep, just that he thinks things through and makes people think what he wants them to think through his often-offensive artwork, the crafty bastard.
(P.S. I am a pretentious blow-hard, as if that wasn't already obvious. And if you don't understand what that means or if you think that it is some lewd sexual reference, then you are officially a nim-wit.)
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I'm just going to ignore all the morons that are angry about it being offensive and ask the question of why in the hell are they in school at the end of June?
fucking best comic ever. People in the comments need to TAKE A JOKE. P.S. @LJ they aren't fucking african americans. there's nothing african about them except for their skin colour. their fucking black people. get over it.
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simpsons did it.
If it was, I apologize for wasting dozens of people's time... it was not intentional.
Well thats really racist, I mean come on! Being a deadbeat Dad is not a racial thing. This is just not funny.
I would be standing next to Trey....
and I don't think he aims to offend, just to be accurate about life.
What's accurate about this cartoon? I can get just as many statistics to show other races have just as many single parent homes as African American's do.
The detail in the wood and curtains are pretty accurate... I spent some time on those.
well im standing next to trey
im white
yea...make a racist joke about it
no seriously i would like to hear it
white kids are stupid. lol.
oh come on, thats just funny. you people need to lighten up
I very much enjoyed the cartoon. I have to say though that I enjoyed the comments even more. I love how people get so up in arms about racism. Look, sometimes it is okay to laugh at things that are funny. "OMG... I'm black and take offense to that!" If that is how you feel, great, but no one wants to hear about it on this website and i am willing to bet that no one cares. Now, if you were to say, "You turned a stereotype of my race into a funny cartoon. While I am able to shelf the race card for a few seconds to laugh, it is still racist." I am willing to bet that still, no one will care.
Sit back, smoke a bowl and enjoy shit that is funny. If you don't like it, keep it to yourself because most people are tired of hearing you claim racism. I started viewing people that call racism at the drop of a hat when I saw a news snippit of a man saying, and i quote "See, computers are racist because they make them so hard to use. They need to make them easy like TV, so people in the community can have good jobs. Computers are made by whites and Chinese, and they don't like it when we try to get a head." - Rakim Oakland
You want to know why racism is still around, read that quote again. A bank will end up hiring that guy to fill a quota. Yeah, racism is still around and kicking. It's people like him that perpetuate it.
i get it but not really your best stuff dude
Sorry 'bout that 'Sunolet', but don't blame me, blame my ghostwriter, Matt Groening.
casket, you are so deep and such a political activist hot shot. Keep up the good work you hippie
I would Like to note that, all of the kids in the upper panel were all abnormally grotesque to enhance stereotypes, leading them all to be ugly, some by nature, some by proxy, but otherwise all in the same group.
In the lower panel, the singular black-skin boy is notably NOT 'grotesquified'(made-up word, don't bother correcting) into the African-American/Negro sterotype.
What does that imply? Not certain enough to say here, but please also consider how the sign in the lower panel SPECIFICALLY wishes his mother a Happy FATHER'S Day, and Indirectly at that! No insult is as insulting as the indirect and unintended and unknowingly PERSONAL insult, which to a divorced mother is exactly what that sign is.
I've seen and read enough of PK's work to know that everything has a reason and a meaning, albeit it is often an arbitrary or artistic one, but he always has a GOOD reason for the differences in the main points of his comic.
I am not claiming PK is deep, just that he thinks things through and makes people think what he wants them to think through his often-offensive artwork, the crafty bastard.
(P.S. I am a pretentious blow-hard, as if that wasn't already obvious. And if you don't understand what that means or if you think that it is some lewd sexual reference, then you are officially a nim-wit.)
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No Matter What You Are Doing, Who You Are, Or What You Believe, In All Things: 'DFTBA'.
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I'm just going to ignore all the morons that are angry about it being offensive and ask the question of why in the hell are they in school at the end of June?
Brilliant work btw, you never dissapoint.
fucking best comic ever. People in the comments need to TAKE A JOKE.
P.S. @LJ they aren't fucking african americans. there's nothing african about them except for their skin colour. their fucking black people. get over it.