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Six-panel black-and-white comic by Simpson. Panel 1, caption: "I still run into some people who think like this:" A bearded man in sunglasses with a ponytail raises a finger and says, "As liberals, we must be polite to EVERYONE and give equal credence to ALL views." Panel 2, a young man in glasses reads a paper: "Here's a piece where a right-winger is calling for the New York Times to be firebombed." The sunglasses…

Radiant Niceness Will Surely Fix the Firebomb Guy

A newspaper-style political comic mocks liberals who insist on treating every view, even violent ones, as equally valid. Sarcasm meets radiant niceness and false balance.

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Six-panel black-and-white comic by Simpson. Panel 1, caption: "I still run into some people who think like this:" A bearded man in sunglasses with a ponytail raises a finger and says, "As liberals, we must be polite to EVERYONE and give equal credence to ALL views." Panel 2, a young man in glasses reads a paper: "Here's a piece where a right-winger is calling for the New York Times to be firebombed." The sunglasses…

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