Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 12, 2020

So cancel culture has always existed, just that its now online and a whole lot easier.

Wow

The same thing happened to Hank Aaron, only a thousand times more hateful.

Join Twitter (maybe Woodstock can help) and ask your haters to come there, problem solved! Nobody has been heard of being crushed under a pile of hate-tweets, at least not physically!

Old fashioned haters .

Schulz made a hard core stand back in the ’70s, back when I originally read the strip I was way too young to notice. Kind of like when Mr Rogers let Officer Clemmons dip his feet in his wading pool to make a point about the people who were angry about open, non segregated swimming pools in our fine country. They were probably the same jokers who sent hate mail to Hank Aaron! Good for both Fred Rogers and Mr Schulz!

Nowadays, it’s all nice neat electrons.

where’s a nice paper shredder when you need it?

Back in the day, this was a radical strip because it addressed the vitriol aimed at Hank Aaron — who had the audacity to be good at what he did while being black. The death threats, the names, the booing. For some reason, people insist on wearing their hate on their sleeves — when that hate makes no sense in the first place.

I recall rooting for Hank Aaron to break Ruth’s record because of all the hate mail and death threats #44 received.

Aaron got legitimate death threats, like Jackie Robinson before him. Funny thing was, he was chasing the record of a man who could have been of mixed heritage.

That’s every single fandom in a nutshell.

At least back then trolls had to shell out for paper, envelope and stamp.

Why would hate mail fall on you?

Anti-canineism.

Because of social media, things aren’t much better.

Sadly, that is the same type of mail Hank Aaron received.

Just pretend it’s fan mail, Snoop.

“We hate your kind.” What, shortstops?

Ol’ Babe’s record was broken by a nigger. I would have preferred the dog.

I rarely get hate mail anymore.

Probably bookies.

I remember that whole controversy. I never understood why people were upset. Records are made to be broken. I think it was more racist-inspired than anything else. Not that we Yanks have any kind of race problems………

thank god the hate mails are no more hardcopies.

Records were meant to be broken, fairly.

Younger readers may not know that Hank Aaron got a lot of hate mail and threats from whites who did not want to see him break Babe Ruth’s record. Yes, in 1974 racism was still pervasive.