Posted on 12/15/2011 9:21:17 AM PST by Alex Murphy
Thomas Nast, whose antislavery political cartoons propelled him to notoriety in the 19th century, has ignited another uproar: whether his anti-Irish and -Catholic drawings should disqualify him from the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Irish and Catholic groups are waging a campaign against including the father of the American political cartoon in that group of notable New Jerseyans, arguing that he routinely depicted them in an unfavorable light.
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There is room for CORZINE in there somewhere!
Because the left hates Christianity. Christianity imposes limits on their deviant lifestyles and they don't like it.
That's an odd spin. Same logic would blame the Public School Society. I blame those who secularized the public school system.
Famous doesn’t have to mean honored.
As opposed to Protestant parochial schools. I would say that it was the Jews, the ones that came much who secularized them.
“It is here in the present that Thomas Nast is being proposed for the Hall of Fame. Why are only white Christian ethnic groups supposed to accept insult?”
You’re absolutely right. If this vitriol was against any of a number of non-Christian faiths this discussion wouldn’t even be taking place.
For one example.....
Exactly.
Neither does great necessarily mean good.
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