Straight to Hell
Let me show you an image from a Dick Tracy comic strip a few weeks back:
What does it say about our society when a comic--let alone one as bland and conservative (not in a political sense) as Dick fucking Tracy--can not only casually refer to the fact that the US is running concentration camps, but considers them a normal, acceptable police procedural tool? Something involving a lot of profanity, that's for damn sure. That's the main thing: you have to make your outrages seem normal; to acclimate people to them. Thanks for helping out with that, Dick Locher and Mike Kilian. Your country salutes you.
What does it say about our society when a comic--let alone one as bland and conservative (not in a political sense) as Dick fucking Tracy--can not only casually refer to the fact that the US is running concentration camps, but considers them a normal, acceptable police procedural tool? Something involving a lot of profanity, that's for damn sure. That's the main thing: you have to make your outrages seem normal; to acclimate people to them. Thanks for helping out with that, Dick Locher and Mike Kilian. Your country salutes you.
posted by GeoX, one of the GeoX boys. at 11:24 AM
You know what I miss? I miss the Mallard Fillmore abuse page. Comedy gold, that was.