Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
He pointed out the RNC's retraction, to wit:
Now that we acknowledge our error we hope People For the American Way and the NAACP and the 9 Democratic Presidential candidates will repudiate this offensive political cartoon.
First of all, there's hella difference between The Black Commentator, PFAW and the NAACP's sites. It reflects poorly on SOMEbody's intelligence to get them crossed up.
Secondly, I wish I had thought of the cartoon.
Third, Aaron's commentary is superior to mine.
Posted by P6 at October 27, 2003 04:24 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2119...we hope People For the American Way and the NAACP and the 9 Democratic Presidential candidates will repudiate this offensive political cartoon.
Those holy hypocrites! Why should People For the American Way, et al do that? They didn't have anything to do with it.
How about the RNC repudiate the offensive Aztec policy of human sacrifice? How about the President of India repudiate the policies of Wallenstein in the 30 Years War? How about Martians repudiate...
After seeing people "publicly call on all Black leaders to repudiate" fill-in-the-blank, this doesn't surprise me at all.
I suspect the Democratic candidates will be smarter than "all Black leaders" were for YEARS, and just ignore it.
If I had a penny for every time someone has told me that as a Muslim I need to repudiate terrorism, I would be a wealthy woman. I can guarantee that if there's some major misdeed (terrorist act, anti-Semitic remark, etc) by a Muslim in the news and I don't say anything about it on my blog there will be at least one comment posted about how bad Muslims are because of our "silence".