If you have to explain the joke, it’s not a good joke. Michael de Adder, political cartoonist for the Washington Post, decided to depict the whole hubbub over the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law by drawing an analogy to Disney’s Snow White; Gov. Ron DeSantis is the evil witch with a “Don’t Say Gay” satchel offering Snow White an apple.
https://twitter.com/deAdder/status/1509941385641795586
This is just like the guy who couldn’t understand the backlash after he asked whether to have a maskless assembly or burn down the school; he had to come back and explain to the illiterate that he wasn’t actually suggesting burning down a school … it’s just that holding a maskless assembly was “the equivalent” of burning down the school.
Now de Adder has to explain that the kids in his cartoon aren’t really dead … they’re just all in comas and need a prince or princess (sorry for the gendered language) to kiss them and wake them up. (Deleted, but we got it.)
You drew your cartoon by using actual children killed in Syria on the beach but added Disney Mickey Mouse ears? 🤔 How much lower can the media go?
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) April 4, 2022
You think this child was a trans or gay child? Hl pic.twitter.com/g88T0HjGzn
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) April 4, 2022
Classy touch tracing the photograph of Alan Kurdi – a dead Syrian child who was photographed on a beach in Turkey in 2015. https://t.co/5mZaDMUcwz https://t.co/GKgljkNZSF pic.twitter.com/X9QSKB1OK3
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 4, 2022
Alan Kurdi was a defining moment in Canadian politics and refugee policy and played a big role in the election of Trudeau over Harper. Not surprised that Adder (who is Canadian) would utilize the imagery.
— Noam D. Gare (@5imulacrum_) April 4, 2022
That is disturbing. There are clearly differences but the similarities are unmistakeable.
— Nadine Smith (@1NadineSmith) April 4, 2022
In attacking Ron DeSantis, this WaPo cartoonist based his sketch on the famous photo of three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying dead on a beach after drowning, but is now explaining the plot of Snow White to try to pretend he didn’t do what he did. https://t.co/v8fY8tY3Vq
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 4, 2022
In case the original tweet gets deleted, here's the full version of @deAdder's dead kid fetish art. pic.twitter.com/XoFM0tusPi
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 4, 2022
Dead kid fetishist brushes off criticism that he traced pictures of dead kids. https://t.co/2kMUTeGPwy
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 4, 2022
Two things that bother me. 1. It’s the implied “morality” that these people believe they have. 2. While Gov. DeSantis is not Jewish, the artistic style reminds me of the Nazi antisemitic cartoons from the 1930s. Kind of disturbing
— CDC Cellular Repair (@CDCCellular) April 4, 2022
They claim the moral high ground while exploiting the actual death of a child to advance their deranged and sick political agenda (he drowned while fleeing a war, totally unrelated to LGBTQ+++ activism)
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 4, 2022
Oh my gosh this is f-ed
— Christine Rousselle (@crousselle) April 4, 2022
I can't even imagine the thought process that leads to the decision to do a drawing of that.
— The Wokest Numbersmuncher (@NumbersMuncher) April 4, 2022
Jesus Christ
— Spencer Case (@SpencerJayCase) April 4, 2022
I think it's funny how political cartoonists can be some of the most socially disconnected people on Earth
— WaywardRobot (@Wayward_Robot) April 4, 2022
They are SICK!!!!
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 4, 2022
Man these people are really upset that they can’t talk about their penises to 6 year olds
— Couch Radish (@CouchRadish) April 4, 2022
They don't see people, they see either a potential vote, or a prop to be used.
— 🇺🇸 Blockchain Drifter 🇺🇸 (@ChiefDrifter) April 4, 2022
Nothing is sacred. Ghouls.
— Greg Reilly (@Greg_reilly) April 4, 2022
So his thought process was, I need a picture of a kid in a coma from eating a poisoned apple; guess I’ll Google “dead child” for a reference image — and then get pissed when people assume the kids in the cartoon are dead.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 2, 2022
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