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How would that play out in the media if it happened?

Well, if you're a Latino Senator from Texas, then your kids are fair game.
As Ted Cruz recently found out.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2015/12/23/ted-cruz-cartoon-children-washington-post-2016-campaign/77798556/


This was 100% pure partisan hatred by the paper.
They should stick to the more subtle approach so the pantie wasted liberals don't have to soil themselves trying to justify their filthy hypocrisy.

The media has no shame. That was wrong on so many levels.

That is not a good enough reason to depict them negatively in a political cartoon.

The libs would go into full blown meltdown if the big "O"s kids where portrayed as monkeys. Have to give Cruz credit for the way he has handled it without playing the race card.

But what's OK for the libs to do (steal secret voter data, store top secret data on private server, illegally run guns through Benghazi, etc) is not OK for the conservatives. The classic "do as I say, not as I do" scenario!

But I did hear Moochelle was trying-out for the role of Chewbacca's new love interest.

Yeah, for example if they were adults out on the campaign trail for their dad. Like Hillary's daughter or Jeb's son.

Tail,neither politician's kids should be drawn as monkeys. That being said, to pretend that drawing Latino kids as monkeys is the same as drawing black kids as monkeys is simply stupid. One is a nasty unnecessary insult to a kid, the other is a nasty unnecessary and racist insult to a kid.

Who called Moochelle a monkey?

I said Wookie.

Howard Cosell was fired for saying look at that monkey run .

There are no indigenous monkeys in Canada that I know of. Perhaps mules would have been more appropriate.

How utterly PC of you.
You say it's wrong with your first sentence, then explain how it could be even more wrong depending on the color of the kids. That's a viewpoint born from liberal thought inbreeding.
A 6 year old kid wouldn't know racism unless it was taught to them by the BLM movement or some other terrorist hate group.
But a 6 year old does know when they're being ridiculed or poked fun of.

And when it's a so-called adult doing it?
And when people say "well, it's not like they were black"?

So I guess we can burn a cross in Cruz's front yard. I mean, it's not like he's black so it wouldn't really be "hate".

He probably has at least one cross in his front yard, making that task easier.

I can only assume that people here are being intentionally obtuse.
To my knowledge (I will admit I'm not up on the latest racist insults) the black race is the only race which has been intentionally and in some cases institutionally linked to another animal. And incidentally that animal is a monkey.

Just because a 6 year old isn't going to know the institutional history of a racist slur doesn't absolve the adult author of one. As there is no historical racist association of either Canadians or Latinos with monkeys I have to assume that the cartoon, while inappropriate and insulting has no more racism behind it than there is when drafter's boyfriend calls him a bear.

I'm not surprised that this goes above the head of people here. This was the same group that was jumping up and down with joy at a picture of Obama drawn as a monkey.

And for those who are racist and believe in the bible, we are all the descendants one one couple. Maybe they want to change that with the story of creationism to fit their prejudices.

Drafter's girlfriends say he's hung like a bear...

Victor is deaf in one ear.... to many, well, I won't go there...

That's right, so quit picking on Drafter.

I thought it was frogs.

Now that's funny.

You're missing the point.
I'm not saying the cartoon is offensive because it's racist. It's offensive because it negatively portrays little kids.
You claim this offense would be somehow WORSE if it also were one of several neat little "Hate" categories. I say it wouldn't be. It's offensive First and Foremost because it's aimed unfairly at little kids.
Everything else is just dressing.

The artist KNEW it wasn't funny.
Wasn't even obvious.
So she went for offensive. Ridicule the 5 year old. And while you're at it be sure to choose a subject that will make people defend her artwork by default. Because "at least it's not racist". Which at the end of the day is a vote in her favor.



And for the record, I think the Italians might find the organ grinder/monkey association somewhat offensive.
But the Italians wouldn't b*tch about it.
They'd just put out a hit...

yea but racism and hate crimes and stuff are extra bad and stuff

True,
But it wasn't just the insult that made me mad, but the excused hypocrisy.
You yourself stated that it was "bad, but not as bad as it would be if it were racist".
And even though you don't mean to suggest that the cartoon is therefore OK, the cumulative effect of people half shrugging it off diminishes any negative impact on the artist.

Not saying there isn't a difference.
Just not buying that racism makes it a trump card in the offensive category. Pun not entirely intended.


If I call a guys wife a whore, that's an offensive insult.
If I call her a black whore I get kicked out of the lodge.

Treating both instances as equally wrong in no way diminishes the vulgarity of the racist remark. But treating the racism as "worse" actually does diminish how the non-racial comment is viewed.

Potato Patahto. But I've grown weary of the protected class demanding MORE outrage.

BLM anyone?

If you say so, I thought that was also hateful, bigoted, and offensive. Though that's just my opinion.

i have seen obama kids in the spotlight and pro obama ads but never in negative ones (as it should be)

so ya