Clayton Jones cartoon blocked by Facebook for violating their "community standards."

[crazytown]

The 'Hate is Not a Game' cartoon I posted here earlier was blocked by Facebook for violating their "community standards". After an outcry, it was posted and is still up. Community standards? I don't know, do you see anything offensive in this cartoon? Read about it at https://claytoonz.com

[Hoyt]

1. Excellent cartoon. I guess that means FB will block all the darn MAGA hats now.

[Brainstormy]

6. not at all!

If Facebook has an algorithm automatically blocking KKK hoods, lynchings, etc., good for them. This is an automatic thing. And just as it should be. The poster can ask to have the cartoon reviewed, and usually, if it's not hateful or provoking of violence the post will be released from Facebook "jail." Happens all the time.

[Gothmog]

2. Great cartoon

[dalton99a]

3. Community standards in St. Petersburg (Санкт-Петербу́рг)

[marble falls]

4. What a crock. Screw FB.

[GeorgeGist]

5. We must forget, we must forget ...

that we've been down this road before.

[Chakaconcarne]

7. It will offend those that don't take the time to think about it or understand it...

I get why it was pulled.

[Grokenstein]

8. It's a well-intentioned and powerful cartoon, BUT

...it casually depicts the lynching of black people to set up a punchline.

This is the sort of thing that has writers over at TheRoot saying "don't use us like that."

I know from personal experience that all the good intentions in the world don't matter in the face of potential misinterpretation. And I can see some knuckledragging klansman printing this in a flyer with zero sense of self-awareness (or worse, an altered voice bubble).

[erronis]

9. +1000. They will abuse and misuse this picture. But it makes it impossible to publish

anything that can't be misused.

[slumcamper]

10. Depends on whose "community" they're advocating for, right? n/t

[crazytown]

11. The Good Old Boys went Grand Old Party. nt