Vicariously Offended

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I don't know who stormtoss is. I took it you were saying that this comic artist was like stormtoss but not as bad. Then I offered that we skip all that and talk about the comic instead.

Clear?

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Meh, it wasn't extreme, I was just trying to figure out what it might have been, and when re-reading it I found it may have been that. I'm just a random 3rd party so take what I said with a grain of salt. Or a grinder, I do really like nice salt/pepper grinders. They are just satisfying... Though the electric ones are annoy me. Why take away all my satisfaction and overcomplicate something nice.

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I’m a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!

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In reality? Like anyone else.

As a costume?

The not-puerto-rican editor of the magazine bon appetit went to a Halloween costume dressed as a caricature of a Puerto Rican with his also not Puerto Rican wife.
It came into my head as an example of something less obviously problematic than blackface, but more obviously problematic than dressing as a Disney character that's a depiction of a different race.

Feel free to substitute any other ethnicity or race into my example as it makes sense to you.

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It's a fairly on-point criticism actually.

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Maybe I'm alone, but I didn't read their comment as saying the artist is somewhat of a Nazi, but just somewhat bad. As in there's a certain level of "badness" before the term Nazi applies. It felt like they were commenting on the level of "badness", not the level of "Naziness".

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Stormtoss

It's Stonetoss, but I'll be damned if that isn't an amazing intentional typo. (Likening Stonetoss to Stormfront.)

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Something can be a fair criticism while also being Boomer humor.

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So it's fine for a culture to pretend to have invented something or take something as their own as long as that something is from a culture that happens to be in the same country?

To me, that's cultural appropriation, no matter whether it happens within the same country or not.

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LandedGentry

As, you must have been a mod from that "shit hole site", I heard they were landed gentry!

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No, I remember Speedy Gonzalez though.

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I don't necessarily know if that's the artist's intention here, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't cross my mind.

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fair enough

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hmm, yes. Maybe I translated it in my head

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I don’t think it’s offensive, but if you’re wearing that just to make a point then maybe you’re just looking to offend people. This is less directed to the comic and more directed to the YouTube clips I have seen of similar scenario.

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I'm unfamiliar with the show, but thank you so much for engaging with the nuance of the situation, here. I agree with what you have to say regarding context surrounding “Moliendo Café”. Context matters. OP's comic is a bit too "strawman" for my tastes.

There's discussion to be had, for sure, but this comic squeezes all the nuance out of a complex topic just to score an easy gotcha.

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Definitely. Innocent until proven guilty. But then, the conversation does still have to happen, sometimes. That's how people (on both sides of the debate) learn the difference in the first place.

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If one Mexican says it’s ok, it’s ok.

If one Mexican say it’s not ok, they’re called a triggered snowflake and lectured about 1A by republicans.

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Well, is just a Small comic, it hasto be this way or else it would not be funny. But yeah, the real world is a lot more complex that any piece of entertainment could ever portrait.

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How is that being dressed as a Puerto Rican?

You'd go to Venezuela or Colombia and see people dressed the same as well

Hell even Ecuador or Peru I think

Baseball is very popular in Latin and central America, is not unheard of that someone is fan of a baseball team from another country

I don't see how being dressed with something resembling merchandise of a baseball team means you are Puerto Rican or dressed like one

And to go further, I believe it is EXTREMELY racist to think so.