Are these people seriously butthurt?

[Mechaman]

And seriously, why the hell are New Jersey people so sensitive?


I mean damn it man, Thomas Nast not only died over a hundred years ago or so, but his racist and bigoted cartoons (which considering the times......not really) make up like 20% of his writings (and I'm being very generous on that number).
I mean really, we got damned slaveowners and Indian killers on our damned currency and some butthurts in Jersey are worried about some guy who made cartoons about drunken Irish simians being inducted into some sort of Hall of Fame?

WASUPWITDAT!?

[Rooney]

I do not know what a "butthurt" is or looks like, but I can tell you that you should not be surprised when a lawmaker gets upset about something from the past that is now viewed as racially charged.

Also, has any other political cartoonist ever had such a long legacy as Nast? I can not think of one off the top of my head (perhaps Herblock).

[Mechaman]

Also, lol at this:

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerletters/2011/11/anti-irish_cartoonist_thomas_n.html

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Friginlololololololololololololololololocaust.
So I guess the Know Nothing Movement, the Law and Order Party, Boston Brahmin, and men in tight pants and powdered whigs didn't exist before Thomas Nast?

Frankly, if Thomas Nast was that well accomplished to have created the infamous "hateful and negative" anti-Irish stereotypes he should be given a damn Gold Medal along with his Hall of Fame induction.  After all, that would make him the only man to have ever created an original Irish joke!

[This user has not been convicted of 34 felonies]

Thomas Nast was a great cartoonist, so leave him alone. Ironically, I was in German class the other day learning about Thomas Nast, only to find out about his cartoon about Boss Tweed. I had this massive like...head explosion and was like "Atlas Forum get out of my LIFE!"

[Mechaman]

In closing:

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Sorry! I clicked No by mistake.

[tpfkaw]

[patrick1]

Nast was a chicken hawk. The Irish simians he depicted were dying on The Bloody Lane and Marye's Heights while he hid behind his pencil. 



Haha, seriously though this isn't worth the effort.

[I'm JewCon in name only.]

I am Klecly, the spaz, and I support Thomas Nast!


SHOO WITH THE HATERS!

[dead0man]

Just give 'em a couple of bottles of whiskey, they'll be fighting each other in 10 minutes and forget all about this.  Also, something insulting about potatoes.

[Mechaman]

Just give 'em a couple of bottles of whiskey, they'll be fighting each other in 10 minutes and forget all about this.  Also, something insulting about potatoes.

How dare you racist!
I'm going to report you to the Southern Poverty Law Center after I have lunch with my mother, who is an absolute saint!  And how dare you continue that whiskey stereotype, as if all Irishmen are whiskey drinkers!  Some of us prefer Rum!

[useful idiot]

I've never understood people who have to go out of their way to be offended. Also, the phenomena of people with Irish surnames constantly bringing up the "no dogs or Irish" stuff from the 19th century in order to pretend to be some kind of victim is bizarre.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I've never understood people who have to go out of their way to be offended. Also, the phenomena of people with Irish surnames constantly bringing up the "no dogs or Irish" stuff from the 19th century in order to pretend to be some kind of victim is bizarre.

Almost as bizarre as the "OMG 26 + 6 = 1!" crap and wishing they had donated money to terrorists from people who have never set foot on that island.

[fezzyfestoon]

Oh come on, his display was literally 5 miles from my house growing up and I've never even heard of him. People need to take a deep breath and stop clamoring to prove just how important their Irish heritage is to them. They're acting very un-Irish about the whole thing.

[dead0man]

Indeed, I've always thought that the Irish were one of those "good" groups that don't get their panties in a twist over every little slight.  I still think that way, even the "good" groups have their sensitive compatriots.  All (or at least most) of the Irish I've met in real life have been the first to make jokes about themselves and laugh when others do the same.