New Animation: In Search of The Democrats
David Essman and I have a new Animated Editorial Cartoon out...and I do believe it's fucking perfect.
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8 Comments:
Wow. This one is good.
Your style is well suited to analyzing pie charts.
But seriously, I liked this one.
why you gotta diss faggots? you had me up til there. :(
Too true... I'm crying into my latte.
What about Bernie Sanders (who is not a Democrat, but is still part of the caucus)?
I'm not sure what to make of "pussies" and "faggots" in the video. Ted, from what I understand, is a straight man in a heterocentric patriarchal society, so HE's the one who has to make the effort to NOT malign, subordinate, or marginalize women and LGBTQers. I guess Ted is trying to equate progressive and leftist irrelevance and lifestyle posturing with female-ness. Not acceptable. There's another point here - given the full-spectrum dominance of our totalitarian capitalist state, it's a bit ridiculous to lay the blame on some feckless progressive wannabes. The left is irrelevant because we don't have guns and we don't proselytize effectively - the nazi Teabaggers show up with guns (to the shrugs or outright approval of govt operatives and most of the capitalist media) and reichwing churches and civic organizations operate round the clock.
Norman Finkelstein also has this problem, calling women he disagrees with "cows" and "bitches". Cows because they are irrational and bovine crowd-followers, bitches because they are irrational and cruel and vicious.
Both Ted and Norm should keep their eyes on the prize and not alienate their own progressive, leftist base. (Appeal to the Teabaggers, Ted? You ain't fooling anyone...)
Ted, from what I understand, is a straight man in a heterocentric patriarchal society, so HE's the one who has to make the effort to NOT malign, subordinate, or marginalize women and LGBTQers.
Ted is not doing that. Ted is obviously making fun of such language, and also the way the media works. (Well, it was pretty obvious to me, anyway.)
Yes, Grouchy, I thought about that. But I didn't the Nimoy character get any come-uppance. The Nimoy character was a stand-in for the audience/Rall who was asking the question: "Where are the Democrats?" and exasperated with the "pussy" "faggot" weakness of progressives. We are invited to have contempt for the latte-sipping "faggot" at the end for rather obvious reasons.
Look, I agree that PC is stifling and often used to destroy legitimate discussion (witness Sarah Palin and the "retard" comments by Emmanuel and Limbaugh). PC limits struggle to words and symbols, often leaving underlying political/economic arrangements in tact.
On the other hand, if we're trying to communicate and organize, and we already have a provocative political stance, why needlessly increase the work by adding "misunderstood" name-calling? I would also go further and question the question itself... "Where are the Democrats?" Come on! The Democrats are where the GOP is, where Wall Street and Pentagon and the CIA are. They are where they've always been. We really need to stop feigning shock when the Democrats act the role they have been assigned by the ruling class, while rhetorically appealing - in the most cautious and occasional way - to their disproportionately marginalized base (blacks, latino/as, LGBTQers, disabled, poor, unionists, etc).
(All that said, this was the best animation Rall has done so far. The plodding tempo of his animations actually works for this episode, given the Nimoy's didactic authority role.)
The Nimoy character was a stand-in for the audience/Rall
I didn't see it that way, but I understand your point.
I don't watch television, and haven't for 15 years, so I don't generally identify with talking heads--I tend to sneer at them.
I thought of it as another layer of satire...the idea of the "wise" television "personality," who was actually a bigoted, biased fool.
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