The normalization continues apace.
Former politician and presidential candidate Ron Paul shared a racist political cartoon featuring stereotypical caricatures of people of multiple races Monday morning — only to delete it minutes later.
“Are you stunned by what has become of American culture?” Paul’s tweet read. “Well, it’s not an accident. You’ve probably heard of ‘Cultural Marxism,’ but do you know what it means?”
Attached to the original tweet was a Ben Garrison political cartoon featuring racist caricatures of Jewish, Asian, Latino and black people with their arms melding together into a single red fist emblazoned with the communist hammer and sickle. The arm is seen punching Uncle Sam, and above it is a speech bubble coming from the four caricatures saying “cultural Marxism.”
Not “people” as Raw Story twice says, but men. Racist caricature PLUS erasure of women.
Not normal.
Not ok.
Not acceptable.
Updating to add: it’s not a Ben Garrison cartoon but a modification of one. I read somewhere that there’s a Reddit group dedicated to doing that.
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6 responses to “Too blatant?”
This is the new style? Tweet #BurnTheJews or Stürmer-style cartoons and then delete in a hurry? If you can even consider spreading such material, even for a split second, I don’t want to know what else is in your head and you have absolutely no business being within a thousand miles of public life.
Good lord, Garrison isn’t even drawing his own racist caricatures, either: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/happy-merchant
Oh, disregard that about Garrison. That’s not one of his; it’s just another one that the shitlords have put his signature on.
Ah, I wondered that – I saw people saying he gets it a lot. I’ll add.
This link to the original was posted by a commenter on Pharyngula.
https://www.deviantart.com/latuff2/art/XXI-EIJAA-93841232
Garrison has nothing to do with it.
#5
That one’s almost as creepy.