There has been a little buzz around this offensive (if non-sensical) cartoon in the Central Connecticut State University paper, the Recorder. I spent a lot of time looking for the actual strip. I am still not sure if the idea was to be offensive, to start a dialog - to encourage racism? I do wonder at what point, though, it's not more offensive to the Latino community how shitty a job we do educating their children or representing them in government, or whatever - compared to what a few drunk dull-witted whities (I'm guessing) at some random college do to get a rise. So, as I said when a certain Dutch cartoon ruffled the feathers of a group of people whose brethren's genocide in Darfur got (from the same people), barely a notice - fine, be offended, take action, but really, where's the outrage for the stuff that really matters?

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You have to wonder how much of this moral outrage is just an academic exercise. When you live in a bubble such as the state of Connecticut, or Dartmouth for that matter, the slightest disturbance in your bubbles perfection must necessarily be a source of outrage, while everything that goes on outside your bubble, your numb as a vegetable to. Oh well. One well. One day they'll graduate at least, with any luck.

By  Justin, at 11:32 PM  

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