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Obama the Joker
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Re: Obama the Joker
I saw the picture..
I don't get it..
*waits for people to chime in about racism*
I don't get it..
*waits for people to chime in about racism*
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No racist comment here. Just an allusion to cluelessness...
Anyhow, I think it's a forced attempt at illustrating something "important." Looks to me like a first year art student with too much time on his hands.
Anyhow, I think it's a forced attempt at illustrating something "important." Looks to me like a first year art student with too much time on his hands.
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What picture?
The right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer to the real question.
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daddy1gringo wrote:What picture?
google it.. its a pic of obama looking like the joker with Socialism typed below it, that someone or someones posted all over LA.
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This one:daddy1gringo wrote:What picture?
An image search reveals that there are many similar images which have been created...
Neoteny wrote:No racist comment here. Just an allusion to cluelessness...
Anyhow, I think it's a forced attempt at illustrating something "important." Looks to me like a first year art student with too much time on his hands.
I think that sounds about right..
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Strife wrote:This.
We suspect not. The Joker white-face imposed on Obama's visage has a sort of malicious, racist, Jim Crow quailty to it that prompts us to ask, as Stephen Colbert puts it, "vomit, come on up."
And the verdict is in..
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GabonX wrote:Strife wrote:This.We suspect not. The Joker white-face imposed on Obama's visage has a sort of malicious, racist, Jim Crow quailty to it that prompts us to ask, as Stephen Colbert puts it, "vomit, come on up."
And the verdict is in..
you know you're awfully defensive about this whole racism thing bro
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Would it be racist if McCain had won and someone did that to his picture? No. Did the person have racist intent, we can never know, (unless of course he or she were to come forward and say so).
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Thank you.
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I don't think it's a racist thing. I think it's a dumbass thing.
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Agreed. Obama is a disaster, but this poster campaign is just stupid. Misrepresenting someone's face and putting "socialism" under it proves nothing.
If there is a lot of outcry over it, well, nightstrike's link answers that pretty well.
If there is a lot of outcry over it, well, nightstrike's link answers that pretty well.
The right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer to the real question.
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SultanOfSurreal wrote:GabonX wrote:Strife wrote:This.We suspect not. The Joker white-face imposed on Obama's visage has a sort of malicious, racist, Jim Crow quailty to it that prompts us to ask, as Stephen Colbert puts it, "vomit, come on up."
And the verdict is in..
you know you're awfully defensive about this whole racism thing bro
It makes me mad to see an issue like race being exploited by people who use McCarthy like tactics.
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Woodruff wrote:
I don't think it's a racist thing. I think it's a dumbass thing.
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It's good to see multiple sides coming together to decry idiocy.
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Gads, we agree on something else. Pass me a pistol.Neoteny wrote:It's good to see multiple sides coming together to decry idiocy.
The right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer to the real question.
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daddy1gringo wrote:Gads, we agree on something else. Pass me a pistol.Neoteny wrote:It's good to see multiple sides coming together to decry idiocy.
He doesn't agree with that though, remember?
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First I don't think the picture is racist, it is what all political figures face when they do something that people do not like.
Second, is it not racist to think that Obama (a black man) cannot handle the same kind of assualts that Bush and other white presidents have faced? And when I say that I'm talking about the multitude of people who demonize the artist who created the piece by calling the artist a racist.
Second, is it not racist to think that Obama (a black man) cannot handle the same kind of assualts that Bush and other white presidents have faced? And when I say that I'm talking about the multitude of people who demonize the artist who created the piece by calling the artist a racist.
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Serbia wrote:daddy1gringo wrote:Gads, we agree on something else. Pass me a pistol.Neoteny wrote:It's good to see multiple sides coming together to decry idiocy.
He doesn't agree with that though, remember?
This is true. Way to ruin the moment.
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The thing I don't get is, why would the artist portray Obama as the Joker (an anarchist), yet label it "Socialism"?
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Timminz wrote:The thing I don't get is, why would the artist portray Obama as the Joker (an anarchist), yet label it "Socialism"?
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Timminz wrote:The thing I don't get is, why would the artist portray Obama as the Joker (an anarchist), yet label it "Socialism"?
An excellent point you have there.
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Timminz wrote:The thing I don't get is, why would the artist portray Obama as the Joker (an anarchist), yet label it "Socialism"?
Like I said, I don't get it.
I mean I agree that Obama is a socialist and I also agree that he is a joke but I don't get the pairing of the image with the word..
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