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Thread #123206   Message #2709970
Posted By: Little Hawk
27-Aug-09 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Which side are you on?
Subject: RE: BS: Which side are you on?
Ha! Pretty good, Donuel. ;-)

Now, just imagine the cartoon that a conservative would come up with along that line. It would be designed along the same general principles of stark contrasts, but slanted from a completely different perspective.

On one side, for instance, there'd be a dippy looking unwashed dreamer in tattered jeans and bare feet, hugging a tree, puffing on a joint, and thinking about cashing his welfare check so he can go and buy more dope. On the other side there'd be a hard-working responsible middle class guy, clean and neatly dressed, conscientiously doing his 9-5 job to support his community and his family...

And so on...

;-D

You see, it's easy. You just form the worst negative stereotypes you can think of of the people you inwardly fear and despise and put them on one side of the cartoon....and then on the other side you form the most positive stereotypes that make you feel good, secure, and proud.

Dead simple.

Conservatives and liberals are both naturals at the art of demeaning one another.

Thus the Great Divide is perpetuated.

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In your cartoon, however, I'm definitely on the same side as you are...but don't expect it to sway anyone in the conservative camp. It will just piss them off, because they won't identify at all with what it's saying.