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1 posted on 01/16/2010 5:47:13 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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Geeze, when are these kids going to learn. You can only make fun of white Christian men. Nascar lovers a plus.


2 posted on 01/16/2010 5:51:04 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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I couldn’t locate the original comic strip online, just the editorial board’s apology here:

http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/viewpoint/responsibility-for-offensive-comic-1.1011631


3 posted on 01/16/2010 5:51:58 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Unfortunately, the language of hate is an everyday reality in our society

And when you give someone else the power to define "hate" hence control over you and your actions, you are lost.
There's a difference between poor taste and "hate".

4 posted on 01/16/2010 5:53:43 PM PST by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: DogByte6RER

No, that is Woody Woodpecker in drag.


5 posted on 01/16/2010 5:54:29 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: DogByte6RER

an old joke that no one remembers anymore, “How do you make a fruit cordial?” “How?” “Be nice to him.”


6 posted on 01/16/2010 5:59:47 PM PST by Namyak (Oderint dum metuant)
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Maybe N.D. would have appreciated the cartoon more if it was, “what’s the fastest way to turn a fetus into a souffle?”


7 posted on 01/16/2010 6:01:47 PM PST by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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But yet drag queens make fun of women....


9 posted on 01/16/2010 6:02:19 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Seriously, the cartoon seems in such obviously bad taste (as well as being not at all the kind of humor used in cartoons), that I have to suspect that it’s uproar bait. Probably a professor in gender studies.


12 posted on 01/16/2010 6:05:40 PM PST by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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To: DogByte6RER

That’s a pretty rough caption. Joking about causing brain damage to a homo just because he’s a homo crosses the line for me. I think they’re mentally ill, and their habits are revolting, and they should shut the hell up already, but I don’t see any humor in the suggestion of causing brain injury on top of the underlying disorder.


13 posted on 01/16/2010 6:06:51 PM PST by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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"“What’s the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?" “No idea.” “A baseball bat.” "

That makes NO sense at all - even if you take it literally. It is really stupid. And, as a play on words, it's just cruel.

17 posted on 01/16/2010 7:24:31 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: DogByte6RER

Gays acting like Muslims??


19 posted on 01/16/2010 8:54:19 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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1St Amendment is not just for liberals.


20 posted on 01/16/2010 9:21:54 PM PST by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Combat Economist.)
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I thought Notre Dame was a private CATHOLIC school. Must not be so any longer, when considering how they support so many anti-Catholic/Christian views of the far left.


21 posted on 01/17/2010 12:22:38 AM PST by octex
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To: DogByte6RER

In the college campus setting, I can have no problem with the cartoon, as an act of an individual, in the form of a flyer, leaflet, etc., floating from person to person or post to post around campus.

I don’t think it belongs in the official campus newspaper.

The situation usually is that there is only one campus newspaper and even the courts have agreed that monopoly paper, as part of the institution of the college, does not have the fullness of “freedom of the press” as a group of public competing publications have.

For the fullness of those rights, we would need to abolish the “official” campus press and let the students make whatever competing campus newspapers as they chose, on their own dime and on their own time.

With no official press the KKK campus club and the Black Panthers campus club, and the GLTB campus club and the We-hate-the-infidel-sodomite campus club, can all print their own news-sheets with hatever cartoons please them.

Meanwhile, the monopoly campus rag can and should apply a standard that attempts to be an agnostic in areas that may offend - an equal opportunity denier of language that exceeds some limit that is applied equally.

I don’t think a “lynching” cartoon would be accepted by that standard, and neither would this one.


22 posted on 01/17/2010 5:58:54 AM PST by Wuli
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