Pat Oliphant for October 21, 2011
Transcript:
Flower: Can this be? Gaddafi gone? Really gone? No more brutal oppression? My! My! Arab Spring becomes reality. What now?? Stability! Honest government! Human rights! Education! National pride! Wealth! Tranquility! Peace! REVENGE! Punk: Waddayawant? They're Arabs.
i used to have such tremendous respect for Mr. Oliphant and his work. Especially during the 80’s, Mr. Oliphant’s comics about the juntas and the fallacies of the Monroe doctrine where the creative, well composed and biting standard everyone knew they had to live up to. i look back on them now and know the goal has always been to provoke thought and spare no one, and that has inspired generation(s) of cartoonists and commentary.These shallow, poorly composed racial stereotypes about Arab people and Islam are trash and you know it Mr. Oliphant. You’ve always been bashed for your depictions of this or that group, but you’ve always been able to defend yourself on the merit of your creativity and intellectual insight. We can see, Mr. Oliphant, that you clearly have nothing important to say anymore. You and we both know the quality of these cartoons shows that you are a relic. Retire and salvage your legacy.