I love how this just blatantly accepts the premise that cops are racist.
It's like that movie Crash, racist cops don't mean to be racist, they just need a personal tragedy to help them overcome their previous bigotry
Just like how Sandra Bullock found out her real friend was her maid the whole time
Sandra Bullock also won the Oscar for 'The Blindside' in which she plays a rich white lady who steals a black kid from his mom.
We had to watch that shit on rainy days at school and even dumb sheltered kid me was like "this seems really racist and condescending"
Crash also taught us that if a racist cop SAs a black woman, it all balances out if he saves her life later
We were shown that movie, with that scene in full, in high school and frankly I memory holed that so hard I had to double check to make sure it was the right scene I was thinking about. I don't even remember the tertiary reason we started watching it back then and I don't remember any of the plot, but that scene has stood out to me for well over a decade.
Never watched Crash, more amazed that a film decided that was a good plot point and wasn't shamed for it.
Not just not shamed, it won the Oscar for Best Picture lmao
Crash as a whole was a libshit "we're all humans man, we're more similar than we are different, and that means I can be racist" kind of thing, it's really really bad in a way that's honestly pretty illuminating when you consider how liberal hollywood LOVED it
Jesus I remember the phase of liberalism in hollywood in which it started with the "everyone's a little bit racist and that's okay" and then also went into the "better to not see someone by their color" colorblindness propaganda shit.
Until this point in the thread I was getting it mixed up with Speed
There'd be so much pearl clutching if you published that cartoon today. The cartoonist would probably have to issue cops everywhere a formal apology.
Not racist! They don’t hate blacks, they just innocently hassle them with the violent instruments of overwhelming state power
they're not evil bloodthirsty mutants, they're just disenfranchising African Americans!
I've looked up the cartoonist John Slade. If it is a Stan Kelly-type joke, then he's been committing to the bit for several decades.
Even in a comic they can’t bring themselves to even draw an equivalent and HAVE to still paint the cop in a better light. If you’ve always “hassled blacks” you hate blacks.
neat how "hated", an emotion by a group with no institutional power, is equated with "hassled", actions by a group with immense institutional power and the ability to murder with impunity
Have you considered that black people are the real bigots for resenting violent state oppression?
Too bad every cop in America wasn't in the top floor of the WTC.
I love the Marvel one where Doctor Doom is crying at ground zero
Just an entire lineup of dudes who at one point or another carried out attacks that were just as bad, if not worse, than 9/11
Yes, even Kingpin
9/11 taught us all that we're all Americans* on the inside**
*Except for brown people from the Middle East
** And for just long enough to pull us into two wars
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- people with anti-war sentiments. Those people were Saddam's lapdogs, I'm sure.
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"And don't fughet we gotta whole aiport with more where that came from, muddafucka"
I've helped people that I hated before.
It did not make me hate them less.
man i know the standard of craft for newspaper cartoons is low but this is really shoddy
