Jeff Stahler for March 07, 2021

20-20 foresight is a myth. But, really, we can sometimes catch ourselves in advance of hindsight. Basically, it comes down, for me, to not doing things that seem would be even a little bit embarrassing, particularly if someone was watching. And treating every single person like you’d want to be treated.

Humor is based on an injury/injustice. We first laugh at someone who slips and falls on an icy sidewalk BEFORE we check to see if they’re injured. Much humor is based on inequality, i.e. it’s okay to laugh at an “inferior”. Equality eliminates inferiors as we become more civilized and examine our earlier society’s behavior. What was once humor is often seen as cruelty by future more diverse, more educated, more equal, generations.

I so very much appreciate this cartoon! May we walk forward with humility and a desire to improve how we treat each other.

Death cult Republicans will remain totally partisan and spread covid everywhere.

That’s what they said after the Civil War. It hasn’t worked that way.

Existing prejudices are causing more damage every day. Trying to change the present by erasing the past [can’t be done] is wasting the energy we should be using to solve the same problems from what should be a more enlightened viewpoint.

Dream on. :(

If we’re to learn from past mistakes, erasing written or visual evidence leaves no point of reference. In the human experience, nothing has ever been, is, or will be perfect. NOTHING!

Think about why there is so much screaming. Do it with your mouth shut. Notice how quiet it is?

I have learned that if I am about to preface a remark with “No offense, but,” I am about to say something really offensive. Or, if I give the prelude, “Nothing personal, but,” I’m ready to make a really invasive personal observation. There is a cure; if either of those lead-ins (or similar) occur to me, then maybe I should simply keep my mouth shut. Just because I have an opinion does not mean you have to hear it.

Truth is there will NEVER be a time when something’s not offensive to someone.

No one was screaming and Dr. Suess’ books were allowed to be remaindered. Even Suess evolved to realize he had been producing hurtful images later in life.

Maybe the white people will be crying less.

There will always be a need by some to dominate, and screaming is the easiest.

And then you wake up.

You can be sure her generation will scream at each other even more and will find many many more reasons to scream at each other.

I remember a Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk meets an alien in the form of Abraham Lincoln. When Abe is beamed aboard he refers to Ohura as being a “lovely negress” and then apologizes for the remark. But, Ohura wasn’t offended since that remark was from the past and their time had advanced beyond such negative stereotypes. It’s strange that we, in our advanced time, are still bothered by the negative stereotypes of the past. Statues torn down, books banned, lives dragged through the courts, business icons abandoned, that unlike Ohura, still bother us no end. Perhaps we’re not as advanced as we think we are.

Partisan republicans don’t give Americans any choice.

Oh, the thinks you can think.

The cartoon assumes that in the past, those things were truly harmless.

Just one example: for a time, large KKK marches and gatherings were commonplace and accepted in many communities. Until the early 1980s, there was a sign in front of a County Courthouse that said: “N……r, don’t let the sun set on your head in Crossville, Tennessee.”

In the movie “Harvey”, the character played by Jimmy Stewart is a guy who hangs around in bars and talks up strangers, introducing them to his friend, a 6-foot invisible rabbit. His sister tries to get him committed, and when the psychiatrist tells him this, he reacts by saying his sister is just a whirlwind. The psychiatrist asks, “Where’s your righteous indignation?” He tells the doc that his mother told him that to succeed in life, “you either have to be very, very smart, or very, very pleasant. I recommend pleasant.”

I’d quite happily settle for, “what seems offensive now may be deemed harmless in the future”…

When it comes to “inappropriate” media from previous times, I think it ought to be accompanied by a disclaimer pointing out the problem, but reproduced as it was originally created. Let it serve as a starting point for discussing what’s inappropriate, why, and why it wasn’t thought inappropriate at the time.

Nope, it will remain mostly the same. Supposedly the hippie protests against the status quo during the 1960s was going to “fix this”, but now those hippies are the elder generation yet we’re at each others’ throats just as much as ever…

Very well said.

The undeniably truth is We have so much more in common than not, certain groups make their living driving wedges between Us. This division could be the growing pains of becoming connected like never before. I hope America comes through this difficult time without War.

KKKancel KKKulture = preserve our white heritage. Making America Great Again like when White Makes Right. /s

Stay tuned to Fox, Newmax and One America Network.

Hopefully all of a generation will decide rape is always bad and never the victims fault.

Besides, when you’re my age you’ll have a spouse to scream at all day . . . . /S

Heard this advice from sane people during the turmoil of the counterculture and civil rights 1960’s. Guess our generation is too stupid to take heed in these days of hyperbolic social media, new age racial and economic segregation, cut throat political vendetta, religious tribalism, and 24/7 hate-filled cable and AM radio talking heads. Like the song says, “When will they [we] ever learn?”

American people problems.

1) Following the Golden Rule is time-proven guidance on how to treat others. 2) In treating the opposite sex, think about how you’d like your children, parents and siblings to be treated. 3) Finally, be interested in people as individuals: does someone enjoy teasing or not? Do they like to be offered a hand or not? Do they prefer to be left alone?

Ah! But the squeaky wheel gets the grease!

This cartoon hits the truth closely. I remember as a child watching very racist cartoons that were produced in the 1930’s. They almost always never showed black people and if they did they were depicted with exaggerated features or as slaves or savages. Even as late as the 1970’s when my sons were watching cartoons, some stations were still airing Popeye cartoons produced during World War II. These cartoons were not very flattering to the “Japs.”

I recall seeing a movie with W.C. Fields where he was dealing with a bunch of black laborers and asked to see “the head Ubangi”

These films and cartoons were “acceptable” well past their “sell by” date.

I remember as a child studying history and wondering why it took us longer to defeat Japan than Germany. The Germans were white and industrialized and civilized. The Japanese were backwards and lived in grass huts. I didn’t know that between 1904 (when Japan beat the Russians) and the Battle of Midway, Japan had the best Navy in the Pacific.

So we need to keep these things in perspective. I think it is a good thing that we “Canceled Culture” on overt racism starting about the middle of the last century. We still have slightly more subtle versions of it around.

A civilization should be a living entity. It needs to evolve and grow. In that way it’s a lot like people. People grow which means they must change. They can’t remain in diapers for their entire life.

Let’s look back on history like we do our childhood. Yes, for most of us, there are good memories. But there are also the times before we learned “how to play nice with others.” Not playing nice with others, is excusable in a immature toddler, however we expect them to grow out of it.

Maybe we are growing up.

Times truly do change!

Specifically next Sunday morning at 2:00 a.m.

Is he predicting the Demise of the GOP’s Reich Wing?