Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Controversial cartoon appears in school's newspaper (People's Republic of Oregon Alert)
Fox 12 Oregon ^ | April 19, 2005 | FOX 12 Oregon

Posted on 04/21/2005 11:51:17 AM PDT by Jacob Kell

OREGON CITY -- Students and parents will discuss a controversial cartoon later today at Oregon City High School. It appeared in the school's newspaper.

The student-drawn cartoon shows two men wearing Minutemen volunteer T-shirts... Depicting the recent volunteer border patrol enacted in Arizona. One cartoon says, "let's go get us some Mexicans." The other says, "remember, women and children are only worth two points."

Several students took the paper home and complained to their parents. A teacher advisor and two student editors approved the cartoon for the paper.

School administrators have apologized to the students saying "it was not meant to encourage racism or discrimination in any way. As a staff, we are working to correct and heal the damage that has occurred."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; california; lol; mexicans; mexico; minutemen; newmexico; oregon; oregoncity; portland; prettyfunny; proregon; texas; twopoints
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last
If you want to see the cartoon, you can go to the link provided. I heard that the reason why Oregon is infested with so many pinks is because they came to the state from Los ANgeles, San Francisco and New York, is that true?
1 posted on 04/21/2005 11:51:20 AM PDT by Jacob Kell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell
School administrators have apologized to the students saying "it was not meant to encourage racism or discrimination in any way. As a staff, we are working to correct and heal the damage that has occurred."

Ah, yes. The often wildly successful "you're an idiot, no offense meant" approach.

2 posted on 04/21/2005 11:54:39 AM PDT by Egon (Liberals: The only group of people they don't want to kill are those that kill others.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell

I personally take offense to that cartoon. Those little highschool ninnies haven't a clue. Let them have illegals trespassing across their backyard, pissing on their porches, or raping their mothers and see how fast they wise up. This isn't about race. This isn't about jobs. This is about obeying the law of the U.S. This is about the safety of the American citizen. This is about securing the borders.


3 posted on 04/21/2005 11:58:43 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell

If I read this right, they are actually apologizing to Mexicans, and not the people in Arizona who are actually the butt of this "joke".

Kind of, "We are sorry for offending Mexicans by depicting Arizonans in our comic strip as racist hicks."

WTF?


4 posted on 04/21/2005 12:02:12 PM PDT by L98Fiero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell
As a staff, we are working to correct and heal the damage that has occurred."

Sounds like a doctors clinic, not a school.

5 posted on 04/21/2005 12:04:40 PM PDT by taxesareforever
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: L98Fiero
The left lives on lies -- and lies are easily disguised as "humor".
6 posted on 04/21/2005 12:11:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell
Mexican and Canadian are not races ~ they are nationalities.

Protect all of our borders and coastlines from foreign invaders ~ NOW!

Be Ever Vigilant!

Stop the attacks on Patriotic Americans by the lunatic left!

Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!

7 posted on 04/21/2005 12:14:12 PM PDT by blackie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell

Did I see a gun in the cartoon? Expel the students for depicting a gun! Zero tolerance!


8 posted on 04/21/2005 12:17:36 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (I'm not nearklym drunk enough tom deal with it. - FReeper Wormwood, 4/18/05)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell

When we finally take out North Korea we should also save a few warheads for Oregon.


9 posted on 04/21/2005 12:21:32 PM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mtbopfuyn

The absolutely incredible thing here is the cartoonists are being criticized for allegedly being rascist by publishing a cartoon which apparently encourages hunting of illegal aliens, when the cartoon was actually a sarcastic attack on the Minutemen. Go to the linked video and see what some of the parents and students who're interviewed say. They are so ignorant and uneducated that they don't even understand and appreciate a sarcastic cartoon that takes their side. PC thinking has gone so far in that school that obvious humor has to be explained literally to a bunch of morons.


10 posted on 04/21/2005 12:29:10 PM PDT by libstripper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell
I heard that the reason why Oregon is infested with so many pinks is because they came to the state from Los ANgeles, San Francisco and New York, is that true

Yes, one of five residents in Oregon moved here in the last five years. I recently attended a dinner party, with 18 people. Only 4 were Oregon born.

11 posted on 04/21/2005 12:31:02 PM PDT by aimhigh
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell

12 posted on 04/21/2005 12:50:07 PM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mtbopfuyn

Unfortunately those that are slamming the Minutemen have a LOT of room to talk. THIS coming from a state that actually has a sign posted at the Oregon/California border that says "Please Don't Californicate Oregon"...GIMME a damn break. Pathetically hypocritical doesn't even BEGIN to touch the tip of that iceburg.


13 posted on 04/21/2005 12:50:48 PM PDT by Rushgrrl (~brought to you from the illegal-rich state of California~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: add925

http://www.ochs.orecity.k12.or.us/


14 posted on 04/21/2005 12:52:04 PM PDT by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: L98Fiero
not the people in Arizona who are actually the butt of this "joke"

Your interpretation requires a lot of nuance, but a more obvious interpretation makes illegals the butt of the joke. Olde Media's meltdown probably makes it hazardous for jokers to assume that everyone shares a monolithic cultural perspective.

15 posted on 04/21/2005 1:14:42 PM PDT by Milhous (a possible South Park conservative)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Milhous
Your interpretation requires a lot of nuance, but a more obvious interpretation makes illegals the butt of the joke.

Hardly, they are belittling the minutemen. That is the way the instructor saw it too, else it would not have been published.

16 posted on 04/21/2005 2:15:19 PM PDT by itsahoot (If Judge Greer can run America then I guess just about anyone with a spine could do the same.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell

what the hell???

unless I am grossly misreading this, the people who should be apologized to are the Minutemen, as this cartoon implies that they are out to KILL Mexicans - an utterly contrary-to-fact assertion which at least borders on slander and defamation.


17 posted on 04/21/2005 3:18:51 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Milhous

you are mistaken.
see post#12.
the content clearly is a slam against the Minutemen, implying they are slovenly rednecks out to kill some "mudpeople".

this is anti-Minutemen defamation, plain and simple, and undeniably so.


18 posted on 04/21/2005 3:21:58 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: itsahoot; King Prout

You can also argue that it looks like a redneck cartoon drawn by a redneck cartoonist with the approval of a redneck instructor to amuse slovenly rednecks. To heal the school we ought to send the cartoonist, the editor, and the instructor to a few weeks of Diversity Training.


19 posted on 04/21/2005 3:56:42 PM PDT by Milhous (a possible South Park conservative)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Jacob Kell; oregon; abcraghead; aimhigh; Archie Bunker on steroids; bicycle thug; blackie; ...

Oregon Ping

Please notify me via FReepmail if you would like to be added to or taken off the Oregon Ping List.

20 posted on 04/29/2005 8:10:03 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson