Posted on 08/31/2007 5:44:56 AM PDT by SJackson
The cultivated inside-the-Beltway paper suggests we ship all the Cubans back to Fidel.
The Washington Post specializes in detecting racism that is undetectable even by the most vigilant Politically Correct Policeman -- then self-righteously denouncing its alleged perpetrator. Let a sports team owner defend his team's name (Redskins) and the Post pounces: "Redskins is not a term fashioned by American Indians." Let Bill Bennet, who has spent a lifetime idolizing Martin Luther King Jr., make an oblique reference to black crime rates and a Post editorial promptly brands him "the poster child for racism."
A WaPo editorial even sniffed out:"Yellow-peril imagery," in recent advisories about unsafe Chinese imports. "They conjure images of the fiendish juggernaut of the Chinese Poison Train bearing down on the hapless American consumer, tied to the tracks by a nefarious evildoer with a Fu Manchu mustache."
With this in mind I invite you to examine this editorial cartoon by Pat Oliphant run last week by this hyper-sensitive guardian of leftist sensibilities.
Note that a smiling Uncle Sam brands an American ethnic group “nuisances" while forcibly expelling them from the nation in a rickety boat entitled "Cuban-Americans." These scowling, elderly, Mafiosi-clad people scream “we demand a chance to interfere with the '08 election!”
By “interfere” we have to assume the cartoonist refers to the right, privilege, and duty bestowed upon U.S. citizens known as "voting." It so happens that the cartoonist, Pat Oliphant, is himself an immigrant to this country. Coincidentally, in an interview with Time magazine he admitted to “leaning Democratic” in his politics.
The immigrant (actually, refugee) group the Post insults in a manner utterly inconceivable for any other, is in fact the very one that “implanted roots" and "contributed to the national economy” like few others. The 1998 census shows Americans of Cuban heritage to have income and educational levels higher -- not just than other "Hispanics" -- but higher than the U.S population in general, with ower crime rates than the national average. But these insufferable people consistently vote close to 80 percent Republican, which instantly nullifies all of The Washington Post's usual ethnic hyper-sensitivity.
Imagine the fire (literal, perhaps) if instead of Fedoras (which are rarely worn by Cuban-Americans, BTW) the group had worn Kuffiyehs, Burkhas and Chadors. What if the boat's passengers had been labeled "nappy-headed" and were headed for Africa? Imagine the rallies in Los Angeles if they'd worn sombreros.
Such cartoons are indeed imaginable with other ethnic groups -- but only with Uncle Sam cast as the villain, wearing a white hood, a swastika, or an Ann Coulter mask. In dispatching Cuban-American Republicans, Uncle Sam smiles benevolently while handing the boat's ethnic occupants off to a gulag.
When earlier this year authorities in Virginia's Prince William County attempted to enforce U.S. laws against illegal immigration The Washington Post denounced it as “shameful," "hypocritical," and "ugly." "Hounding Immigrants" ran the editorial's title. "By singling out illegal immigrants, local politicians are contributing to what is becoming a poisonous, increasingly nativist atmosphere that will infect relations with Hispanics generally."
But WaPo sees nothing "poisonous," "infectious," "shameful," or "nativist" about a cartoon gloating over the mass expulsion of U.S. citizens of Hispanic origin from America's shores.
When U.S. Federal authorities attempted to enforce U.S. law against illegal immigration in New Bedford earlier this summer the Post once again stormed to its pulpit and denounced it as: "cruel," "lurid" "hypocritical, "self-defeating," and "illogical." "Stop the Raids! Stop Hurting Children!" blared their editorial headline. "The New Bedford raid is an inelegant example of how badly this country needs a clear-eyed immigration policy, one that provides...a path to citizenship for immigrants who have put down roost and contributed to the national economy." After all, they were likely to vote for left-wingers, just like The Washington Post's editorial team.
But a cartoon celebrating the expulsion of Americans who happened to be foreign-born, who legally became U.S. citizens, outpaced even the overall U.S. population in educational and income levels, and who dare to exercise their right to vote -- such vermin should be shoved off en masse to Stalinist prison camps by a smiling Uncle Sam.
The Left supported this decision too:
I’ll note that the above scenario of an ATF agent seizing a child in order to send him to a totalitarian hellhole for brainwashing by a dictator’s secret police was heartily endorsed by palaeolibertarian and Ron Paul/Cindy Sheehan booster Lew Rockwell.
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“The cultivated inside-the-Beltway paper suggests we ship all the Cubans back to Fidel.”
“But a cartoon celebrating the expulsion of Americans who happened to be foreign-born, who legally became U.S. citizens,...”
I don’t interpret it that way. In fact just the opposite. To me it’s condemning to ridicule anyone in the country who thinks that what we should do.
As it would and does in Democrat party circles everywhere.
I really hope people wake up and deliver the Democrats a final surprise in '08, and bury this party of corrupt, traitorous, wanna be dictators forever. Then this nation can get on with being a nation again, after the trials and hangings of those traitors that didn't flee the country when their influence collapsed are over.
I don't think anyone thinks that. As an alternative explanation, I wondered if he's making an allusion to opposition to illegal immigration and our policy, not necessarily practice, of deportation.
Not the first time a cartoon has been misunderstood. If he's not taking a shot at naturalized Cubans, an explanation will be forthcoming in short order. If it doesn't, it's fair to say they were his target.
Made me think back to the Elian Gonzales case. And how the 'Rats were so eager to send that little boy back to Castro's Cuba.
So let me get this straight: According to the 'Rats: Mexico, bad. Cuba, good.
Riiiight....
The thing I noted is that she claimed to have a different opinion about a provision in the constitution.
You mean the one that entitles the entire planet to live in the US?
Oy.
And I see Powers has been flapping her gums on this subject on at least one other occasion...
It’s like the conversation stop;per of Hillary. “I am going to keep saying it, because I believe it.”
It's OK with the Left to hate blacks or Hispanics if they are perceived to be "right-wing" (Clarence Thomas, Miguel Estrada, Cuban-Americans generally).
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