← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Sertorius
Thread ID: 12118 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-02-02
2004-02-02 15:48 | User Profile
This guy will catch hell for this.
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I can't believe they allowed this. :lol: The letters to the editor should be very interesting, to say the least.
2004-02-02 15:59 | User Profile
You can vote whether you liked the cartoon or not here.
[url]http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/luckovich/index.html[/url]
2004-02-02 17:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]This guy will catch hell for this.
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I can't believe they allowed this. :lol: The letters to the editor should be very interesting, to say the least.[/QUOTE]
That cartoon can be deciphered in at least two ways. In the first (which is probably the intent of the cartoonist), the reader is to be left believing the movie is some sort of "blood libel" or whatever monkeyshine term our semitic friends are using this day. This is a common cartoonist tactic--employing hyperbole (the sign affixed to the cross) and having some character "state the obvious" in an attempt to ridicule the subject, in this case, "The Passion."
Another way this cartoon can be deciphered (the way I first viewed it, as did, I think, Sertorius), is that the man in the audience is a foolish, bullshit artist. After all, we have 2,000 years of tradition--as well as several books of the Bible, the #1 bestseller for nearly half a millenium--that state the cartoon sign affixed to the cartoon cross is only a very slight overstatement of fact.
I'm guessing the psychologies of "Mike Luckovich" and the slightly-left-of-Trotsky editorial board of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution view the cartoon in light of the first description. However, the people that keep the AJC afloat are the lily-White residents of the lily-White Atlanta suburbs, many (most?) of whom attend, at least occaisionally, a lily-White church, and most likely posess a psychology similar to Sertorius and me.
So, let's count the ways the AJC f'd this one up:
1.) Never ever show Jews in a bad light, not even in jest to make the opposite point. Luckovich and the editorial board screwed themselves on this one because of their own arrogance.
2.) Always know your audience. This is the first lesson to be learned by any public performer, even employees of newspapers. A corollary to this is to know yourself. Two strikes here.
3.) Do not, under any condition, make an ambiguous point, particularly one that can be analysed in ways 180 degrees apart. This was bound to happen with the failures at (2).
4.) Don't smugly attempt to contravene 2000 years of tradition with a poorly drawn doodle. You reveal yourself and your compatriots as the stupid assholes you really are. Again, "know thyself."