Reply #29: Fiar enough. [View All]

Would the crab cartoon have been racist to you if it had employed a scrawny white girl... or a man?

But never mind, much of this stuff is extremely offensive, some is sexist, and some uses racial stereotypes. I concede. Maybe I should've read the tiny captions on them before I answered these posts. My responses have been out of line. I will defend this stuff no longer.

However,

what I will say is that people - from Larry Flynt to Hillary Clinton - are complicated and multi-dimensional. If you want to disregard Flynt's efforts on behalf of the 1st Amendment - and for other worthy causes - and define and condemn him in his entirety for the impact this stuff has on our society, then you should use the same standard for politicians. If a politician votes to spend our tax dollars - even one single dollar - to fund the U.S military, then they bear personal responsibility for the small children burned alive by our bombs. Come to think of it, the same would apply to every taxpayer in the U.S. - and I assume that includes you and me both. Children burned alive. Our direct responsibility. That's moral absolutes for ya.