Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 23, 2020

Rat, are you trying to punish the guy or the general public by letting him wear tights?

Shouldn’t they be putting the bullseyes on other people instead of themselves?

The next generation of radical politicians have been created.

I like Pig’s little whistle in Panel 1.

Has Stephen been facing a lot of offended comments lately, more than the average cartoonist?

I thought at least one would say he was promoting self-violence! lol

Notice how the guy’s finger presses into Pig’s squishy head in panel 4? It’s a good thing there’s nothing in there to damage.

Tights on the wrong person can be offensive.

Not as easy as that, Rat.

Rat’s bottom left commentary is precisely how it should be.

Around here, we have meta-offendedistas: They get offended on behalf  of other people (who are, in fact, often not offended by whatever the mof-distas think they should be).

“Leaving creative people free to create”. Yes, but as long as they don’t start shoving propaganda down our throats, Rat.

As long as you’re not belittling people, that’s okay. Belittling anyone affects pretty much everyone.

God, I really love Pearls, but I wish Pastis would just stop with these repetitive “i’m offended!!” or “political correctness” jokes he does like every other week now. It’s boring and unfunny. I read stuff like Pearls to laugh at the edge and wit it has, not to be reminded about how life sucks and our social climate right now. It’s not entertaining at the slightest. Would suck if these past few years means that Pearls has gone soft and Pastis has finally been stumped with ideas (like what happened to all of those creative storylines he did from the beginning of the 2000s to the mid-2010s??)

Wow, for once, Rat has it figured out! If it doesn’t hurt someone deliberately, do what you like, and SCREW anyone who doesn’t like it.

Sorry Rat. It’s too late for that.

Looks like the “O” people are related to the “PC” people … Croc Power !

In Canada these people call themselves Wet’suwet’en.

They’re not offended at that solution?

I am offensive (at times)…so…fan club?

Future Condo Commandos

I suspect Stephan was on the receiving end of some idiots recently.

If I can’t piss off at least one self-righteous jerk a day, it hasn’t been a good day!

Who p!ssed off Stephan this time?

For once Rat speaks words of wisdom!

Really. Knock yourselves out! Here’s a bat.

If only they were that easy to deal with

To me, if you walk around with a Big “O” on your shirt, you’re just asking to be offended.

That’s right, Rat! These days, people just use being offensive to complain about things they don’t like.

I’m offended by all of these comments. It takes too long to read them all.

Welcome to the far right, Mr. Pastis.

I’m offended by today’s strip…

Sadly, most of this offendable nature don’t listen to reason like these do.

A word of thought from, Rat?!

“How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.” Wayne Dyer

Social Awareness, like most things: Behind every silver lining there’s a dark cloud. Bless the nouveau book burners of the original unabridged Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel by Mark Twain, they know not what they do.

Pastis harps on this issue so much (and from the point of view of the offender) I am really, really wondering about the opinions he expresses that cause this response.

General, personal self-restraint is the key to freedom. Love God. Do right by your neighbor. Exercise too much freedom, presuming on others, and you create push-back. When everyone selfishly takes, no one has much freedom.

Everyone should be offended by intrusive advertising.

Scott Adams calls those people “outragists”. I think I like that better than “offendedistas”.

I find this comic offensive. :P

Re: creative people, see today’s “One Big Happy” about art.

Too bad it doesn’t work that way.

I really like Pastis. Obviously very fed up with the stupidity of both conservatives and liberals. And he isn’t afraid to risk alienating one side or the other by calling them on their stupidity.

A sobering thought for offendedistas.

Being offended doesn’t, by itself, make you right.

At first glance I thought maybe the Fantastic Four were doing a guest turn in PBS. Then I read about the Offendedistas and said to myself, “T.S., Eliot”!

Does this have anything to do with Snoopy’s Twitter account recently?

Yeah racists free to create, misogynists free to create, homophobes free to create, but what do they create? An oppressive and backward society.

Must not be political

Liberalism/communism is a mental disorder

Why do they all have targets on their costumes? That’s just asking for trouble.