Mike Constable Backlash
Ottawa Citizen columnist Janice Kennedy weighs in with her response to the controversy over Mike Constable's cartoon of the new Pope. Reprinted at rabble.ca:
"Never mind that the thing is actually a clever swipe at a perfectly valid target, the former Cardinal Ratzinger's indisputably authoritarian impulses — and at the Church's, too, under his and the late John Paul's rigid direction. And while the more literal-minded might see the Nazi salute solely as a malicious and misinformed commentary on the Pope's personal history, many others understand it for the edgy observation it really is. Like it or not, “Nazi” has become culturally synonymous with tyranny in all kinds of arenas — remember Seinfeld's “Soup Nazi?” — so if the shoe fits ... "
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