• For some reason, the NYT decided to publish an anti-semitic cartoon
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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1122164007316725760/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1122164007316725760&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html%231122164007316725760 They've already apologized for it, albeit as limply as possibly. The real question is how it got through editorial in the first place. https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1122143162506596354
'An error of judgment' is pretty fucking weaksauce, NYT.
the whole guide-dog analogy toes the line enough but I feel like it wouldn't be that bad in isolation... but they went and added the star of david and the yarmulke to just really nail in that "JEWS!!!" angle. oof
I mean, the primary statement it makes is totally valid, but... yikes.
For some reason political cartoonists are incapable of being any level of subtle so im not really surprised.
I mean, their target is for people at a third grade reading level to get the point, so subtlety is usually out of the question
There's always a possibility. It depends if the approving person is on the same side as the artist. You usually have just 1 editor to vet individual articles before publishing, so if say the editor hated jews, it won't be that surprising. You're not going to have a multicultural panel to review it. I understand what I said may be a stretch but it seems like the only logical reason why it got published. Or maybe the editor is a dumbfuck
I think it's far more likely that the editor just didn't care. Maybe he was swamped with work, was having a bad day, or was tired or had a headache. Something that led to a situation of "How's this look?" "Yeah yeah it's fine" "You sure you don't want to take a look at it first?" "I said it's fine" "Okay!" If there is indeed only one editor in charge of determining if something goes to press, then there are a million ways that something like this could slip through the cracks. It only takes one slip.
If the star of david were removed this wouldn't (shouldn't) be a problem. For any other nation, having the flag there wouldn't be a problem, but who doesn't know the implications of a star of david like this ffs
Inappropriate, but I counterintuitive. I thought the NYT was run by the jews?
I mean, political cartoons have always been caricatures, and that's kinda the point, which is why there was that controversy about a Serena Williams political cartoon a little while back. I have to say that I've always found political cartoons kinda disturbing because everyone's face is messed up.
Without the Star of David I wouldn't know who the dog was supposed to be
Wait I can fix it. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/237763/91dea540-3bc0-40a2-b030-2b93eb953892/DC9E5071-31D6-420E-9C2E-63C3B73F5D5B.gif
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