People downvoting this thread because they’re not getting that this is satire by the onion makes this post infinitely funnier. Well played OP
I don’t get it… Is the joke just that conservative cartoons label everything and use straw-man stereotypes?
The Onion is a parody of normal newspapers; since normal newspaper political comics follow satire, The Onion goes double up to satirize their satire.
I suppose it’s probably funnier if you actually encounter these irrationally conservative people in real life - though I suppose I prefer the situation where I don’t 😅
Somehow this isn’t satire
Nice try, I’m not eating the onion this time.
(Seriously though, the satire isn’t actually worse than this. Which makes sense, because… What the actual fuck. But yeah, that does make it unclear that it’s satire and what point it’s trying to make.)
Why is this being downvoted? All this artist does is spoof conservative political cartoons.
Oops. Maybe I should have made that quite clear that it’s satirising the American right 🤣
As a man that owns a long sleeve Sickos shirt I would like to see more comics by him on Lemmy.
requires knowing (and caring) about the artist and knowing they work for The Onion and knowing they do spoofs – I think this is only the third time I’ve seen anything of theirs and I’m far more likely to invoke Poe’s law than to spend any time questioning the lack of humor …
Knowing that the artist does satire is not a prerequisite for recognizing that this is satire. It’s very obvious. And also hilarious.
Unfortunately, a lot of “obvious satire” turns out to be serious. This is a bit more obvious than most, but it can be hard to tell, these days.
Wait… But how could Homer be a crude stereotype of a white male?
… He’s bright yellow!
Nah, he’s Ethinically Ambigaus
I’ll admit, I ate the Onion.
Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from “haha, WTF?” to just “WTF?”.
Lady Liberty crying and holding a beer labeled “beer” didn’t give it away for you?
“To stop racism, you must stop playing the victim.”
-- A “woman of color” that belongs to a “minority group”.
