{"id":26978,"date":"2022-12-06T09:53:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:53:52","slug":"cartoon-why-wont-leftists-just-be-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=26978","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Why Won’t Leftists Just Be Civil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imagine a world without these political cartoons. Would life even be worth living? Obviously not. We’d all just sit around staring blankly at our piles of unwashed dishes and laundry waiting to die because nothing means anything. Oh, and, uh, patreon support blah blah blah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve made fun of the “civility” issue before, and I’m sure I’ll do it again. It’s just such an irresistible lump of hypocrisy. Plus, people being overdramatic means fun facial expressions to draw.<\/p>\n

I’m an extremely civil person, outside my cartoons. Even on Twitter, I work hard to be polite, even when I’m arguing with right-wingers. In college I was on the debate team (my only sport!), and being polite is crucial in competitive debate.<\/p>\n

So I’ve got a lot of sympathy for people who call for civility because that’s their aesthetic preference (which is where I’m coming from). Or because they believe that being civil goes hand in hand with kindness, and kindness is good, even when dealing with jerks (also where I’m coming from). Or because they personally have issues dealing with other people’s anger and contempt, and so they’re able to function more comfortably in an environment with politeness, even if it’s moderator-enforced politeness. (For a third time, that’s me.)<\/p>\n

My eyes only start rolling when calls for politeness are used as a partisan cudgel, Because there are rude people on all sides, and anyone who can’t see that is either being disingenuous, or is so far sunk inside of a partisan bubble they probably won’t see sunlight until the asteroids wipe us all out and dinosaurs take the Earth back.<\/p>\n

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This one was so simple (only two panels!) that it was a pleasure to draw. I got to spend a lot of time trying to make her hair look lively and right, and working on her expressions.<\/p>\n

The next cartoon I’ll post is a nine-panel strip. I usually have multiple strips written and waiting to be drawn. So I’ll tend to do the relatively quick to draw strips alongside ones that take forever, and hopefully it averages out to something like a reasonable workload.<\/p>\n

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TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/strong><\/p>\n

This cartoon has two panels. Both of the panels show a white woman with a stylish haircut, wearing a striped shirt with a calf-length skirt and black tights. She speaks directly to the reader.<\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman looks sad and distraught. She’s holding one palm up in a bewildered fashion, and has her other palm pressed against the side of her face.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: I was arguing with a liberal and she said…<\/p>\n

WOMAN: I can hardly even SAY it, it was so AWFUL!<\/p>\n

WOMAN: She said my argument was “RACIST.”<\/p>\n

WOMAN: She actually used THAT word! About ME! How can anybody be so MEAN?<\/p>\n

PANEL 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The woman now looks angry, her hands balled up into fists.<\/p>\n

WOMAN: Why won’t these lying libtard soyboy cuck groomer baby-killing totalitarian leftists just be CIVIL?<\/p>\n

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Why Won’t Leftists Just Be Civil? | Barry Deutsch on Patreon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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