The all time champion for cultural blindness, I think, was the Onion “Open Letter to a Starving Child” by some guy who urged an Indian street child to just come to America, and if he didn’t have money for a ticket, just “put it on the plastic.”
Hmm, and Cortez and Pizarro “saved souls” for the church by killing all the natives that resisted the stealing of their land, and of course, gold. Acts from Europeans goes back way beyond Walden.
I agree that much of what goes on on today’s campuses is anti-intellectual – the offense-free zones, the refusal to hear the other side. But are you saying that Sam’s interpretation of the statue is imaginary,and that B.D. is right , that Walden is captured hazing a fraternity pledge?
Both the dueling narratives here posit that there’s a second person in the statue, either a slave being beaten or a pledge being hazed, and both posit that Walden is the one doing the attacking. B.D. is no liberal, and he sees it. Upon what evidence do you base your belief that there is no second person, that this is merely the statue of a man with a cane or a stick and both Sam and B.D. have imposed a second person being attacked upon an innocuous tableaux? Other than your conviction that such a statue could not possibly exist in a comic strip?
No, I’m not DJDeSpain, but it’s just that what you wrote made no sense the way it was written, and this was highlighted by getting the character’s name and background wrong.
Dears, after going through the comments (and replying to them too much), could a native speaker please explain the last sentence in the strip to the rest of us? (no trolling, I also googled a little and still don’t understand the meaning)
NG,Please remember not al fraternities did such things. That said, I remember a pledge left chained to a cypress tree near UF. They were too drunk to remember where they left him. When hunters found his remains, they could see he had dug a hole for swamp water to seep into, eaten all the bark on the tree as far up as he could reach, probably lived for several weeks waiting for help which never came. . . . . . . As to the imaginary statue I’ve never seen: Being a kindly soul, Elias Walden’s beating back the dogs attacking the poor refugee from southern plantation horrors.
BE THIS GUY over 8 years ago
Sam, Walden had the first integrated fraternity in the nation.
AKHenderson Premium Member over 8 years ago
“Thank you sir may I have another?”
wdgnas over 8 years ago
one man’s fraternity pledge is another man’s slave
Darsan54 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Or an example of “good” parenting? No mollycoddling back in the day.
Widmerpool over 8 years ago
Must’ve been a Rhodes scholar.
David Shortell over 8 years ago
This is the first I’ve heard of Elias Walden. I guess he was kind of like Jebediah Springfield, or what Jubilation T. Cornpone was to Dogpatch.
Marsh1 over 8 years ago
Google whitesboro seal in NY. Classic.
BaltoBill over 8 years ago
It’s heritage, not hate.
montessoriteacher over 8 years ago
The times they are a changin’. Again.
dutchs over 8 years ago
The all time champion for cultural blindness, I think, was the Onion “Open Letter to a Starving Child” by some guy who urged an Indian street child to just come to America, and if he didn’t have money for a ticket, just “put it on the plastic.”
kaffekup over 8 years ago
Sounds like something rMoney really would have said.
summerdog86 over 8 years ago
I guess the statue is open for interpretation.
despain_ over 8 years ago
Um, before you go off on a rant about a comic strip, get your characters straight. That’s not Mike, it’s B.D. as Sam’s dad.
Dragoncat over 8 years ago
Isn’t that the same thing?
naninparis over 8 years ago
A monument to the acceptance of bullying to become part of a group….
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
Hmm, and Cortez and Pizarro “saved souls” for the church by killing all the natives that resisted the stealing of their land, and of course, gold. Acts from Europeans goes back way beyond Walden.
BE THIS GUY over 8 years ago
I don’t believe the children inherit the sins of their parents. But, it is important that children recognize and are honest about those sins.
DoctorDan over 8 years ago
I agree that much of what goes on on today’s campuses is anti-intellectual – the offense-free zones, the refusal to hear the other side. But are you saying that Sam’s interpretation of the statue is imaginary,and that B.D. is right , that Walden is captured hazing a fraternity pledge?
DoctorDan over 8 years ago
Both the dueling narratives here posit that there’s a second person in the statue, either a slave being beaten or a pledge being hazed, and both posit that Walden is the one doing the attacking. B.D. is no liberal, and he sees it. Upon what evidence do you base your belief that there is no second person, that this is merely the statue of a man with a cane or a stick and both Sam and B.D. have imposed a second person being attacked upon an innocuous tableaux? Other than your conviction that such a statue could not possibly exist in a comic strip?
DoctorDan over 8 years ago
Well, can’t argue with that logic.
tulpoeid_ over 8 years ago
Hmmmm, could it be so on purpose? Just saying. People like her are not so uncommon, right?
tulpoeid_ over 8 years ago
No, I’m not DJDeSpain, but it’s just that what you wrote made no sense the way it was written, and this was highlighted by getting the character’s name and background wrong.
tulpoeid_ over 8 years ago
Dears, after going through the comments (and replying to them too much), could a native speaker please explain the last sentence in the strip to the rest of us? (no trolling, I also googled a little and still don’t understand the meaning)
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs over 8 years ago
NG,Please remember not al fraternities did such things. That said, I remember a pledge left chained to a cypress tree near UF. They were too drunk to remember where they left him. When hunters found his remains, they could see he had dug a hole for swamp water to seep into, eaten all the bark on the tree as far up as he could reach, probably lived for several weeks waiting for help which never came. . . . . . . As to the imaginary statue I’ve never seen: Being a kindly soul, Elias Walden’s beating back the dogs attacking the poor refugee from southern plantation horrors.
tulpoeid_ over 8 years ago
Aaaah, yes thank you, it all becomes clear now. I love seeing two birds killed.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Oh my God, but I guess I should not be surprised that Trudeau actually buys into the PC crap on the nations campuses.