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(143,999 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Lancero
(2,979 posts)Seriously - 5 people, a comic implying rape, and the decision is made to show the minority as the one popping a bottle of pills?
Implications are twofold - One, it plays to the racist viewpoint that african americans are drug addicts. Second, that he will be the first one to 'participate', for lack of a better term, which plays to the racist view point that african americans are criminals who attack anyone in sight.
Even if the implication of rape wasn't intended, this comic still portrays african americans as drug addicts.
The Blue Flower
(5,419 posts)I watched the Anita Hill hearings. This is not about Thomas' race, it's about his proclivities.
FSogol
(45,355 posts)They even listed their names.
That comic is spot on.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)NO.
Seriously?
NO, but nice troll attempt.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Only if you're too clueless to actually get the cartoon.
brush
(53,467 posts)but neither is really needed since Thomas is easily identifiable.
You may have a small point but the larger, clear implication is that they're all about to participate in whatever happens next.
And those five did, in a symbolic rape, with their horrible Hobby Lobby decision.
Sure makes you wonder about the mental capacity of those 5 men on the court. How could they think that decision was anything but religion trumping women's rights, and how could they not foresee the backlash it has already generated?
As they continue to lose women voters the repugs will be sorry they ever heard of Hobby Lobby.
rurallib
(62,343 posts)brush
(53,467 posts)Wasn't he the one that said," I'm being low-tech lynched!"??
olegramps
(8,200 posts)I saw it and didn't think black man - drug addict - rape. I thought of Anita Hill, I expect most people did. They all give me the willies.
JHB
(37,128 posts)Augiedog
(2,541 posts)Coming soon to your neighborhood, the SCOTUS Caliphate featuring Scalia Law.
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)Thanks!
planetc
(7,718 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)Uncovering Collective Rape : A Comparative Study of Political Sexual Violence
JENNIFER L. GREEN A1
A1 Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Abstract:
Collective rape is an internationally important issue but it has been the subject of little academic research. In particular, comparative empirical research is missing from the literature. This article discusses the first steps in a comparative sociological study of collective rape, defined herein as a pattern of sexual violence perpetrated on civilians by agents of a state, political group, and/or politicized ethnic group. News source data was used to identify international incidents of collective rape for the period 1990-2002. Despite the methodological challenges involved in studying this issue using media-based data, the procedure produced a reasonable valid data set of thirty incidents. A comparative look at these incidents reveals several trends in collective rape offenses, perpetrators, and victims. Perpetrators are typically agents of the state and victims are typically discriminated-against minority groups. Most incidents occur in the context of internal war and other collective violence, indicating an intimate tie of collective rape to other major human rights problems. These trends suggest that further sociological research on collective rape is both necessary and feasible.
My comment: All cartons depict the GOP/Male Religion, which is violence against women and minorities.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)Statism vs. the Constitution is depicted in this OP, especially the last carton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism
State, society and individuals[edit]
Some analyses[who?][16] use a dichotomy between state and market, viewing the state as a homogeneous institution capable of using political power to force policy on the market which is the sum of peaceful human action. Such an analysis depends on an elitist theory of power rather than a pluralist theory of power; that power is exercised by individuals and competing organisations within society.[17]
Authoritarianism, on the other hand, views a strong, authoritative state as required to legislate or enforce morality and cultural practices.[citation needed] The ideology of statism espoused by fascism holds that sovereignty is not vested in the people but in the nation state, and that all individuals and associations exist only to enhance the power, prestige and well-being of the state. It repudiates individualism and the family and exalts the nation as an organic body headed by the Supreme Leader and nurtured by unity, force, and discipline.[citation needed] Fascism and some forms of corporatism extol the moral position that the corporate group, usually the state, is greater than the sum of its parts and that individuals have a moral obligation to serve the state.