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April 02, 2006
The Luddite Pillory, v1.6
A blog-carnival exposing anti-space silliness for ridicule and scorn, and otherwise showcasing funny space- and science-related news items.
Posted by T.L. James on April 2, 2006 12:20 PM
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Page 4, cartoon by W.B. Park entitled "Ancient Buffalo has a vision of the future": stereotypical American Indians sit around a campfire, as a man in a Flintstones "Grand Pooh-bah" headdress (!) speaks to them about the idealized "Noble Savage" conditions of the (pre-Columbian) Americas. Then he describes a dream in which "strange, pale-faced people" arrive, bringing with them death, overpopulation, disease, greed, and environmental destruction, with the clear implication that these are inherent traits of these "pale-faced" strangers that set them apart from the American Indians. Page 118, cartoon by W.B. Park entitled "The Boys in the Band": features caricature of Richard Perle, who is a Jew, with bony, clawlike fingers, darkened eyes, and what looks like a covetous smirk, reminiscent of the antisemitic cartoon imagery of 1930s Germany. Reinforcing this impression is the fact that his image is slightly larger than the other figures illustrated, and is top-center above the others, as though he is looming ominously above them and calling the tune. I thought there were more than that, but a couple of examples I thought were in cartoon form were actually in the text. Posted by: T.L. James at April 3, 2006 08:24 PM |
