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Thursday Toon Roundup 1- Pray to the almighty corporation (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2014 OP
Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Jul 2014 #1
The last one. Scuba Jul 2014 #2
Thomas cracks me up! B Calm Jul 2014 #4
Yup. Same here. FiveGoodMen Jul 2014 #25
K&R madokie Jul 2014 #3
Last one's a bit racist... Lancero Jul 2014 #5
Long Dong Silver rides again The Blue Flower Jul 2014 #6
You don't recognize the male members of the USSC and Clarence Thomas in particular? FSogol Jul 2014 #7
Hmmm, let me think a minute hootinholler Jul 2014 #8
it plays to the racist viewpoint that african americans are drug addicts. AlbertCat Jul 2014 #10
A Coke can would have been better in his hand (Anita Hill case) . . . brush Jul 2014 #11
no the Viagra notes that it is still covered in HL insurance rurallib Jul 2014 #12
Very good point. nt brush Jul 2014 #17
Clarence: El Shaman Jul 2014 #20
Evidently you are not aware of Hill. olegramps Jul 2014 #21
Not at all arikara Jul 2014 #24
He's not addicted, he's just not recusing himself JHB Jul 2014 #26
Thus speaketh the Hobby Lobby Caliphate Augiedog Jul 2014 #9
Great bunch of toons! A Little Weird Jul 2014 #13
all toons planetc Jul 2014 #14
Dang, those are good! Enthusiast Jul 2014 #15
Political Sexual Violence of the Male-GOP Religion. DhhD Jul 2014 #16
Statism vs. the Constitution-needs to be brought or Go to the Vote, it. DhhD Jul 2014 #19
knr alfredo Jul 2014 #18
Thank-you! hedgehog Jul 2014 #22
Thank you! n/t Tom_Foolery Jul 2014 #23
brilliant set n/t BelgianMadCow Jul 2014 #27

Lancero

(2,979 posts)
5. Last one's a bit racist...
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 08:41 AM
Jul 2014

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)
6. Long Dong Silver rides again
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 08:45 AM
Jul 2014

I watched the Anita Hill hearings. This is not about Thomas' race, it's about his proclivities.

FSogol

(45,355 posts)
7. You don't recognize the male members of the USSC and Clarence Thomas in particular?
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 08:45 AM
Jul 2014

They even listed their names.



That comic is spot on.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
10. it plays to the racist viewpoint that african americans are drug addicts.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 09:10 AM
Jul 2014

Only if you're too clueless to actually get the cartoon.

brush

(53,467 posts)
11. A Coke can would have been better in his hand (Anita Hill case) . . .
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 09:17 AM
Jul 2014

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.

arikara

(5,562 posts)
24. Not at all
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 02:09 PM
Jul 2014

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.

Augiedog

(2,541 posts)
9. Thus speaketh the Hobby Lobby Caliphate
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 09:01 AM
Jul 2014

Coming soon to your neighborhood, the SCOTUS Caliphate featuring Scalia Law.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
16. Political Sexual Violence of the Male-GOP Religion.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 10:10 AM
Jul 2014
http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,6,6;journal,42,42;linkingpublicationresults,1:110910,1

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)
19. Statism vs. the Constitution-needs to be brought or Go to the Vote, it.
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 10:17 AM
Jul 2014

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.

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