The picture in question has a caption which reads "OBAMACARE: Coming soon to a clinic near you". It's supposed to be about what ObamaCare will do if passed. Commenters at LGF have mostly condemned it as either being, at the least, in low taste, and at the worst, racist. There have been, however, several commenters who've noted that they either don't see the picture is racist or don't understand how it can be seen as racist.
For Charles Johnson, the fact there have been comments that don't support his own stance on the picture led him to comment that it isn't "LGF's finest hour". For me, I still don't see how it is racist.
I see Barack Obama as a witch doctor, and it has to do with ObamaCare, showing (if I'm not mistaken) what will likely happen to people once ObamaCare is passed; namely, the standard of health care will go way down (I think). How is it racist? Because it's Barack Obama's head and not say Hillary Clinton's in the picture?
Frankly, not only am I not seeing the supposedly blatant racism in this picture, but I suspect I'm also seeing the extreme hypersensitivity of those at LGF on this matter. I don't even see how this picture is in bad taste. Can somebody explain to me how this picture is in bad taste or is racist?
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To explain it, I'd have to understand it myself and I don't. Best I can figure is if anything is negative about a black person, it's automatically racist. Doesn't matter if you say the same exact thing about 999,999 white folks, once it's said about a black, it's racist.
I blame it on utter stupidity.
I don't understand it either, and utter stupidity is as good a reason as any I can think of for the reaction to the photo.
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