Guardian apology

[Ihavenojob]

for this cartoon. No one has been decapitated yet.

MSN

www.msn.com

This bit surprised me
(The squid is a reference to Mr Sharp's former employer, Goldman Sachs, once described by Rolling Stone as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” But it is also a well-recognised anti-Semitic trope.)
Never knew that, a bit like slopes I suppose, only racists know what it means.

 

[fillyboy]

for this cartoon. No one has been decapitated yet.

MSN

www.msn.com

This bit surprised me
(The squid is a reference to Mr Sharp's former employer, Goldman Sachs, once described by Rolling Stone as “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” But it is also a well-recognised anti-Semitic trope.)
Never knew that, a bit like slopes I suppose, only racists know what it means.

Think the squid reference is a bit obscure, I'd never heard of it. The big hooter and other exaggerated features are a little more offensive.

 

[noseall]

Greedy Tory scum.

 

[JohnD]

I'm looking forward to pred's grovelling apology for his repeated anti-Rothschild smears.

 

[noseall]

I'm looking forward to pred's grovelling apology for his repeated anti-Rothschild smears.

I'm laughing at faux right wing outrage.

Greedy Tory scum.

 

[Odds]

Dave Rich writes about this in todays edition and starts by saying:
"Other than his closest friends, it is unlikely that anybody would complain if a Guardian cartoonist drew Boris Johnson as a gorilla. All’s fair in political satire, cartoonists are expected to be scurrilous, and the former prime minister is fair game. But if that same cartoonist drew a black politician in simian form, it would be obviously racist."

Why obviously?

This is another example of someone looking at a subject and exhibiting their own bias/prejudice.

Ursury has been a plague of civilisation for centuries. Even Christ kicked the moneylenders from the Temple. It's a damn shame we can't do the same thing.

 

[noseall]

it is unlikely that anybody would complain if a Guardian cartoonist drew Boris Johnson as a gorilla

I'd be offended on behalf of all Gorillas. Is there such an animal as a buffoon?

 

[Odds]

I'd be offended on behalf of all Gorillas. Is there such an animal as a buffoon?

A cross between a buffalo and a baboon?

 

[JohnD]

Even Christ kicked the moneylenders from the Temple.

You are mistaken.

Perhaps you are misremembering Matthew 21.12

Which says something different.

 

[Odds]

You are mistaken.

Perhaps you are misremembering Matthew 21.12

Which says something different.

Yes; only that he 'overturned the tables'...which can be viewed as a metaphorical interpretation of a literal event.

“It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it ‘a den of thieves.’”

 

[JohnD]

It refers to moneychangers (not moneylenders)

Due to temple dues having to be paid in a special currency.

 

[Odds]

It refers to moneychangers (not moneylenders)

Due to temple dues having to be paid in a special currency.

Again, true.
How did they make money from this transaction?

 

[JohnD]

Change in and out, buy cheap and sell dear both ways

 

[Odds]

Change in and out, buy cheap and sell dear both ways

So, in effect, the people who wished to pray at the Temple had to pay a toll in order to do so.

There's no bank in our village but the local store had an atm installed for our convenience. But in order to draw your money out you had to pay a £1.50 surcharge. Same difference. And no, i didn't pay it, either.

 

[Ihavenojob]

There's no bank in our village but the local store had an atm installed for our convenience. But in order to draw your money out you had to pay a £1.50 surcharge. Same difference. And no, i didn't pay it, either.

Buy something in the store, pay by card and ask for cash back.