A) It’s the only cartoon that appears in the sports section in my paper, so one can’t help but glance at it while reading the other sports items around it.
B) Was not a lot of trouble to try to make a point and maybe get a few people to think about it.
Yes, not reading it would solve MY problem, but the greater problem of intolerance and insensitivity would NOT be solved. Voicing my opinion is my little contribution to that end.
I’ve never cared for Tank McNamara cartoons in general but this 9/3 one steps over the line of mediocre to just plain repulsive—on so many levels that I can’t cover them all here.
It doesn’t matter that Millar and Hinds are trying to show us how people who take football too seriously might think. That’s no excuse to show a black-clad, masked terrorist reminiscent of the Munich Olympics tragedy, a terrified couple tied up and kidnapped, and a box of stolen swine flu vaccine to be withheld from Wisconsin residents.
Yet another example of the good ol’ boys of the sports world being insensitive to the real world. Millar and Hinds should be ashamed of themselves.
A) It’s the only cartoon that appears in the sports section in my paper, so one can’t help but glance at it while reading the other sports items around it.
B) Was not a lot of trouble to try to make a point and maybe get a few people to think about it.
Yes, not reading it would solve MY problem, but the greater problem of intolerance and insensitivity would NOT be solved. Voicing my opinion is my little contribution to that end.