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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   Helen Keller became a well known Socialist and champion of the poor an indigent. Human rights supporter.
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   win said, 4 months ago

   And her brother’s in touble next, he’s in the other room rearranging the furniture.
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   exoticdoc2 said, 4 months ago

   Somehow the punishment would seem to lack real impact…especially if she happened to be a neat freak.
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   margueritem said, 4 months ago

   Good one.
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   She couldn’t see what the problem was.
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   Bilan said, 4 months ago

   She understands this, but doesn’t get why she’s punished every time before she eat.
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   oceola said, 4 months ago

   Not sure if this cartoon is in good taste. From Wikipedia: Keller was frustrated, at first, because she did not understand that every object had a word uniquely identifying it. In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for “mug”, Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll.¹³ Keller’s big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of “water”; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
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   Alexikakos said, 4 months ago

   You’re right. This cartoon is in bad taste.
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   Linux0s said, 4 months ago

   “You hug your Mom with those hands?”
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    Andy Davison said, 4 months ago

    Very very bad taste and not at all funny. 0/10, Must try harder.
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    win said, 4 months ago

    Uh-oh, the culture police.
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    pcolli said, 4 months ago

    @Alexikakos

    Not bad taste because it reminded me of what I learned about Keller at school. Kids say bad things without knowing they’re bad and in this cartoon we’re reminded that the words were “said” using hand gestures. HK had to wash her hands not her mouth. Are we meant to separate certain people from the norms of society? I’m sure Helen Keller would have wanted to be treated as a normal human.
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    jreckard said, 4 months ago

    Anne Sullivan is the strictest teacher, hands down.
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    Magnolia42 said, 4 months ago

    Does every strip have to have a deep analysis? Take it at face value; if you speak profanity you get your mouth washed with soap. But Helen signs, so she gets her hands washed . Very simple.
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    PICTO said, 4 months ago

    Watch your language or it’s mittens for you.
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