{"id":22763,"date":"2017-02-13T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22763"},"modified":"2017-02-13T21:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:10:32","slug":"cartoon-oh-those-intolerant-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22763","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Oh Those Intolerant Liberals!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whoops! This cartoon is from February 3rd, but I was tired then and forgot to post it here. Here’s what I wrote about it on February 3rd, on my Patreon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Another strip based on current events. I’ve been drawing all day to get this finished, and it’s now 11pm – but it feels nice to have gotten it done.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to have been able to take a day to turn an idea into a comic strip. And I can do that because of all the patrons here supporting me. Without you, this strip probably would have never gotten further than a doodle in my sketchbook. Thank you!<\/p>\n

I’m going to keep this one private until Monday, so my patrons can get to see it early. But as usual, if you’re supporting these cartoons at the $5 or above level, you can start sharing it right away. Everyone else, please wait until Monday. :-)<\/p>\n

I don’t think that leftist intolerance doesn’t exist – obviously it does. I attended Oberlin College in the late 1980s, and the social pressure to conform to liberal beliefs could be stifling. I don’t think it’s actually changed very much, except that now social media makes everything that happens on campus into potential nationwide news.<\/p>\n

But the media seems convinced that this is solely a problem with left-wingers; this strip is about how ridiculous that is. The black bloc protesters in Seattle who broke windows ((Who were not all the black bloc protesters there, I assume.)) were acting like jerks, and I don’t approve of them hijacking a much larger peaceful protest to make it all about them. But it’s not reasonable that a broken Bank of America window gets so much more coverage (and so much more hand-wringing) than a Republican official calling for a repeat of Kent State, or of a Milo fan actually shooting a protester. <\/p>\n

I read an article – I can’t find it now, sorry – which pointed out that the shooting at the University of Seattle protest (referred to in the second panel of this strip) got much less coverage in newspapers than some Oberlin student who complained that the food served in the cafeteria was not authentic enough.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, that was the inspiration for this strip. I hope the drawing looks good – it’s hard for me to judge, so soon after I’ve finished drawing it. I think the dude in panel 2 is my favorite.<\/p>\n

(I wrote a blog post<\/a> about the similar problems with how the media reacts to threats to free speech on campus. )<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful weekend, everybody!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s the transcript of the cartoon:<\/p>\n

Panel 1 shows two “black bloc” protesters, with black hoodies and faces masked, standing with broken glass around them. One is holding a brick, and both are waving a fist in the air.<\/p>\n

CAPTION: Berkeley: Masked far-left protesters set fires and break windows.
\nBB1: Oooh, look at us. We’re such hardcore rebels!
\nBB2: In your FACE, people who do tedious activism work that actually matters!<\/p>\n

Panel 2
\nAn angry man holding a smoking handgun yells at someone on the ground in front of him.
\nCAPTION: Seattle: A fan of a right-wing speaker shoots a left-wing protester.
\nANGRY MAN: Stop trying to silence me!<\/p>\n

Panel 3
\nA cheerful man in a suit and tie looks directly a the viewer, hand out in a “explaining things” gesture.
\nCAPTION: Michigan: A Republican party official suggests that student protesters should be shot.
\nMAN: Kent State is a model we should all aspire to!<\/p>\n

Panel 4
\nA young white man, face distorted by hate, is standing with his back to us, holding a gun, and glaring back at us over his shoulder.
\nCAPTION: Quebec: A white supremacist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-feminist, Trump supporter murders six people in a Mosque.
\nMAN: Being privileged in every way imaginable has made me so ANGRY!<\/p>\n

Panel 5
\nThree well-dressed people wear expressions of panic as they yell in unison.
\nCAPTION: And the pundits spoke.
\nPUNDITS: Why are liberals so intolerant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoops! This cartoon is from February 3rd, but I was tired then and forgot to post it here. Here’s what I wrote about it on February 3rd, on my Patreon: Another strip based on current events. I’ve been drawing all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22768,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22763\/revisions\/22768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}