Posted on 11/10/2023 11:46:59 AM PST by thegagline
In February 2017, a month after Donald Trump was sworn into office, the Washington Post proudly announced a change in its online masthead, with it reading “Democracy dies in darkness.”
These days, democracy is dying in anti-Semitism thanks to the Post‘s cowardly decision to yank a cartoon done by Las Vegas Journal-Review cartoonist Michael Ramirez, which was originally published Monday, because it sparked an outcry among triggered anti-Israel staffers, readers, and other assorted Useful Idiots who claimed it was “racist” and allegedly unfairly put the lion’s share of the blame for civilian deaths in Gaza on Hamas terrorists and not Israel.
*** In a note to readers, editorial page editor David Shipley wrote about his “regret” over his decision to publish the cartoon, claiming the paper missed an opportunity to find “commonalities” and “bonds that hold us together”:
A cartoon we published by Michael Ramirez on the war in Gaza, a cartoon whose publication I approved, was seen by many readers as racist. This was not my intent. I saw the drawing as a caricature of a specific individual, the Hamas spokesperson who celebrated the attacks on unarmed civilians in Israel.
However, the reaction to the image convinced me that I had missed something profound, and divisive, and I regret that. Our section is aimed at finding commonalities, understanding the bonds that hold us together, even in the darkest times.
The Hamas spokesperson in question was Hamas official Ghazi Hamad, who has explicitly stated that Hamas won’t rest until Israel is “annihilated,” and that they will commit many more October 7ths to get the job done if necessary.
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the truth was contradicting their lies
cant have that
I haven’t read the Post in years, now; but the political cartoons were one of the best and most truthful parts of it.
Of course, I’m speaking of the long past...
Ramirez is amazing. Incredible artwork, beautiful themes, and outstanding insights into the issues. He is great.
The sniveling cowards at WaPo are pathetic.
Why so sensitive about this one? I’ve seen over a dozen similar ones.
I honestly had NO idea how many Jew haters resided in the United States..I always knew they existed but not to this scale
Its like those who still to this day deny the Holocaust ever happened
Buncha reality denying snowFLAKES.
Of course it is the WaPo birdcage liner supplier.
Doesn’t the WaPo have some additional staff to layoff?
Yeah, like long before President Nixon.. Or don't you remember each and every cartoon featuring Nixon?
1. islam is not a race.
2. hamas actually uses human shields.
The cartoon is completely accurate.
Considering the number of higher level Nazis that “escaped” to the US before Hitler offed himself, I’m honestly not surprised one iota.
“The cartoon is completely accurate.”
Da truff shall set you totally triggered, batcr@p crazy as you already were.
Many peeps these daze that emerge from The Darkness need to immediately return.
It’s clever for it’s obvious patency.
It is the truth, in an image.
It’s what they actually do.
and that’s why it makes waves.
Id like to ask these pro hamas protestors “Lets pretend you are the PM of Israel and 1400 of your citizens just got slaughtered in one day what would you do?” Probably nothing since they dont believe that Israel is a country anyway..heck those morons dont even know what Palestine is, they couldn’t locate it on a map, they are just parroting what their commie teachers have taught them
Quite a few of them post on FR too unfortunately
No issue making all the Palestinians look RETARDED.
The far more sophisticated forerunner of the Internet ‘meme’.
Obviously over the target.
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