I don’t know about you, but when I think of comics or cartoons, my first thought is not directed towards adult entertainment. I think of Garfield, Batman, Archie, etc. Since I don’t spend a lot of time reading the newspaper, I rarely bump into them in the newspaper, which, is exactly the place that I think of to look for them. I find that a large amount of cartoons are geared more towards adults, not always found in the newspaper ,but on TV.
This becomes obvious when you take into account The Simpsons, South Park, and the like. Not only would I never allow my children to watch them, I would not watch them myself. I find them intensely crude and lacking any type of entertainment value. I do not find them a bit amusing. I do realize that it is a personal opinion, and that I am not right and everyone else not wrong.
I would not consider these to be offensive to me, although I find them disgusting, I don’t particularly understand the mentality of those that enjoy them, and think very little of those adults that allow their children to watch this form of entertainment. I am disgusted but not offended.
While pondering this topic, I decided to look up some political cartoons to see what is really circulating out there. I found cartoons that poked fun at presidents, different wars, and other political issues. There were a couple of cartoons that poked fun of victims of Katrina in Louisiana.
I am unwilling to discuss the actual content of the cartoons, but I was completely mortified that anyone would consider it, not only funny, but also believed that others would find this humor funny.
These people have had their entire lives destroyed and altered by one very catastrophic event. They lost their homes, land and worst of all their family members. The pain and feeling of loss is hard for me to imagine. Some ridiculous person thought that they could gain something, probably in the form of money and fame, by targeting these victims as the center of a sick joke.
I cannot imagine the type of person that would possibly find this form of entertainment funny. To be able to take a disaster, whether it is a personal disaster or a community disaster, and laugh at it, I find it to be cold and inhumane.
I must say that some of these are cartoons can be distasteful and offensive to some people. But like everything else in America, they try to make money off of others disasters. For example you used South Park and that cartoon show is satirical, people usually know that whenever something happens in the U.S. or around the world and it's a big deal it will most likely be on South Park... likewise with anything that happens in the media world. They exaggerate the reality of it and that's what gets them ratings, although to many people it might be highly offensive and distasteful, but others may think it's 'hilarious'. Sadly enough you would be surprised at how many people actually find these cartoons entertaining. Some political cartoons can be funny, but others can go a little overboard.
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