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Monday, July 14, 2008

New Yorker Cover Revisited

There's a lot of controversy about the New Yorker cover featuring an illustration of Michelle and Barack Obama as militant Black Panther and Muslim, respectively. Now it is obviously intended to be satire, but it borders a very fine line between what is satire and what could be *perceived* to be a slur.

The satire is not making fun of Obama himself, but in showing the absurdity of what *some* people think of Obama. But is this evident? 

I thought that perhaps they could have provided a little context to it, perhaps putting the image in quotations, so to speak. So here you go:



or maybe even:

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4 Comments:

Blogger Stan said...

You need to give Keith Olbermann a link to this.

5:35 PM  
Blogger bran said...

Good call. with context, it becomes satire. Without, it seems like a raging slur.

2:20 PM  
Blogger Rowan said...

I like the bottom one! That's too funny!

Dawn

1:06 PM  
Blogger Ann said...

Thanks!

7:59 AM  

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