I’d say I want to see someone try to turn this into Maoist, Third Worldist propaganda, but Ben did a good job himself.
irony aside this is like, his most outright racist cartoon yet. literally a brown foot labelled "third world" stomping on the white yankee man.
The CPC's Destroy America Department gives you benefits that include really good mani/pedis
I find it frustrating that the phrase "third world" has just become a stand-in for the word "poor" in modern usage. Since the original definition of "third world" was nations not aligned with either the USA or the Soviet Union. That makes this double racist and xenophobic because at least if he made it a Soviet foot that would track with their fear of communism. Instead, it's a brown foot labeled with a definition that implies that the rest of the (poor) world, not aligned with any specific ideology is taking over the USA. That makes no sense. Basically, they're just afraid of poor, brown people. Not very surprising.
it hasn't become a stand-in for "poor," it's become a stand-in for "nonwhite and also poor"
Or just “nonwhite”. I doubt these guys would be happy about all the Asians and Indians in Silicon Valley.
Steve Bannon wasn't, and thinks that half the CEOs are from those demographics lmao
The third world, through the NAM, definitely sought to assert itself as an independent force. But I don't think that's what Ben's getting at here
I mean, what you're describing isn't subtext, it's text. "If we let in too many poor immigrant the country will turn to shit, not because they're bad people with bad ideology, but because there's only so many poors we can integrate." I remember a South Park episode that exemplifies this kind "compassionate anti-immigration" sentiment. I think it was called Goobacks or something.
third world can also be very affirmative. in vijay prashad's history, the third world is the noble and dignified revolutionaries that both resisted colonialism and rejected capitalist imperialism, and rejected the militancy and authoritarianism of the eastern block. the ones that learned from both and were to build a new world system based on bilateral cameraderie and pluralism. i use that definition, but am always overrun with people with this kneejerk hatred of the term
Right after I posted this I was listening to the most recent episode of Death is Just Around the Corner and the host said basically the same thing.
and rejected the militancy and authoritarianism of the eastern block
I mean, the Eastern Bloc was far from ideal but this sounds like a reductive holdover from liberal readings on the Cold War. One side was actively "imperializing" while the other was giving weapons and aid to people resisting that.
Is Camp of the Saints the Nazi book about Europe being overrun by brown people? The name rings a bell but I forgot the context, and if I remember correctly, I'm not gonna bother googling it.
I read the wikipedia, and the only thing I thought was "Get owned cracker lmao" my favorite parts were:
The mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three African-American families from Harlem;
:sicko-yes:
migrants gather at coastal ports in West Africa and South Asia and swarm into Europe, Australia, and New Zealand
:sicko-hyper:
millions of black Africans from around the continent gather at the Limpopo River and invade South Africa (then under aprtheid)
:sicko-charging:
London is taken over by an organization of non-white residents known as the "Non-European Commonwealth Committee", who force the British queen to have her son marry a Pakistani woman
:sicko-surveillance:
I like the implication that African-Americans are a foreign horde and not people whose ancestors the mayos dragged all the way from Africa.
Ben is a common link between George Lincoln Rockwell and Dan Schneider.
Between this and the one about Trump tilting at windmills it's almost like he's making a heel turn. Of course not, but it would be funny.
The perspective on the foot/sandal is kinda fucked now that I'm looking at it
lol just noticed the dashed 'line in the sand' - like this is just too great at showing how dumb borders are - on accident
Look where Uncle Sam's feet are. Fucker got stomped for stepping across his own imaginary line
Once again left wishing I lived in the world conservatives think we live in.
