Did they read it?
Lloyd Dangle points out a controversy over a Keith Knight cartoon that reveals a startling lack reading comprehension in our schools.
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Sep 29, 2009
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7 Comments:
What?! I am mortally offended...by something...and I am upset and tearful as I are a victim of something.
For FSMs Sake, these are allegedly college students.
Mold
Wow, that's rather sad.
That whooshing sound you hear is the cartoon going over all their empty little heads.
I agree with Kyle. In fact, the cartoon is something that I agree with in the new 'post racial' society that was ushered in with the Obama presidency.
It is something to get angry at because it makes you stop and think. Most people don't want to do that. And college students only consider it a way station on their way to getting rich and getting their Saab and Audi's to drive.
face it, there were too many words in that cartoon for anyone to actually read it and understand it. i stopped after the first "word balloon" and therefore i am with the students of "slippery slope" university. . . how dare Keith draw a picture of a black man being lynched!
The fact that this happened at a University scares the hell out of me. Y'all are supposed to be able to read more into it than the picture. Set your Offensensitivity level at stunned!
To be fair the news report was going for a sensationalist approach. I wonder how many students were interviewed and said "The whole point of the comic was illustrating racism in today's society", but didn't get on TV. Then again, you never know, I've meet way to many stupid college grads to hold out too much hope.
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