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Five-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: a woman in colonial-style clothing says, "BLACK PEOPLE ARE INFERIOR!" Panel 2: a bearded man in a suit says, "I JUST DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE." Panel 3: a man in a bowler hat says, "BLACK PEOPLE ARE OKAY, BUT THEY SHOULD STICK TO THEIR OWN KIND." Panel 4: a man in sunglasses and suit says, "WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?" Panel 5: a man in a polo…

Same Old Racism, Just Updated Vocabulary Across the Centuries

A five-panel comic shows racist talking points changing wording across eras while the bigotry stays the same, ending with "too woke." Sharp political humor for adults who remember learning civics.

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Five-panel black-and-white comic. Panel 1: a woman in colonial-style clothing says, "BLACK PEOPLE ARE INFERIOR!" Panel 2: a bearded man in a suit says, "I JUST DON'T LIKE BLACK PEOPLE." Panel 3: a man in a bowler hat says, "BLACK PEOPLE ARE OKAY, BUT THEY SHOULD STICK TO THEIR OWN KIND." Panel 4: a man in sunglasses and suit says, "WHY ARE THERE SO MANY BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?" Panel 5: a man in a polo…

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Six-panel Doonesbury comic by GB Trudeau. A man in glasses on a bed asks a translator: "Tell me, honey--since you're the only translator in China who can still understand the Chairman, how faithfully do you actually carry out his wishes?" She replies: "Well, sir, he changes his mind a lot, and although his word is absolute law, I have to account for that. For instance, last Monday, he told me to have the Great Wall… 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… Black-and-white comic. A woman with a headband says "We're having a sit-in"; a man shouts "Ugh. Too hippie!" She says "We're blocking traffic"; he: "Too disruptive!" "We're boycotting"; "Too 'cancel culture!'" "We're kneeling during the anthem"; "Too unpatriotic!" "We're organizing a march on"; "Too intimidating!" "We're having a demonstration"; "Too scary!" "We're burning down the city"; "Too violent!" "I wrote a… Black-and-white Far Side cartoon of a rock band on stage, the guitarists tossing a bottle and objects into the air, while a crowd in front reaches up. In the foreground a technician's hand turns a mixing board with knobs labeled Channel, Midrange, Reverb, Suck, Treble, Bass and Mic. Caption: Raymond's last day as the band's sound technician Bizarro comic by Dan Piraro. A man in a sweater bends over, hand on his back, scowling at a young girl holding a newspaper in a living room. His speech bubble reads: "How about if your generation spends less time studying how my generation destroyed the environment, and more time figuring out a magical solution?!" Three-panel comic. A bespectacled man is grabbed by a fanged vampire in a cape in a castle hall, and says, "The moon has no light of its own. It reflects the sunlight." The vampire looks stunned as the moon glows in the window. In the last panel only the man remains, with the vampire's cape and clothes in a pile of dust. Caption: "SCIENCE SAVES LIVES." Signed Perscheid.

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