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Well, when you put it that way, yes, he does look like a drag queen.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

It seems to me that mocking our adversaries has gone out of style somehow.

There used to be terrible cartoons and jokes about all the Russian dictators. But glasnost sort of made that inappropriate or something.

Of course, my perspective is a bit longer on this.

In my youth it was encouraged to call the Japanese "nips" and worse. It was WWII after all. German mockery was a little more precarious because we were of German stock and we lived in Eastern Pennsylvania. And we had German refugees living in our community. Non-jewish ones as a matter of fact. Politicals. A family of kids in school just made it out of there. So, no kraut jokes please. But it was open season on any orientals who might "worship the rising sun".

I suppose that once there was an atomic bomb it all got a lot less funny. If it ever was.

Nevertheless, I got a big laugh out of this cartoon and now that I have beat it to death I hope you laughed too. On the first bounce before you got all self aware and shit.

Labels: communists, humor