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[–] cdglow 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

a) I don't find the original cartoon that vile or offensive and BizPacReview's effort to make this into an "I'm a victim" type of thing is off-putting. Sure, the cartoon relies on a low-effort stereotype against the only group of people who it is socially praised to stereotype, but I think there's an interesting ethical discussion to be found here: is it hypocritical of people who are varying degrees of anti-government to use government services in the event of a crisis or otherwise? I would argue that it's perfectly fine in most cases: if you're taxed at the point of a gun, why would you not want to get some of it back at least? The cartoon seems legitimate in that it brings up at least a moral discussion that you can legit have.

b) Should people on the right waste their time in playing "I'm so outraged and offended and victimized by this argument game"? Sure, it's a way to score an extremely tiny political point in this specific instance, but is this perpetually outraged game something we actually want society to play? People on the left dreamed up 943 new micro-aggressions in the time it took BizPacReview to write up this article. Not only is this a game that we cannot win, but even if we somehow did, we'd all lose by living in a hyper-politically correct and joyless world.

c) Hasn't Trump's election shown us that the key to winning arguments among the masses is to be funnier than the left? We should have an intellectual debate about the cartoonists' point, use it as a platform to point out that taxation is always demanded at the point of a gun, thank him for illustrating that it now socially acceptable to stereotype different groups of people, and make funny subtle memes about niggers looting TVs that reality can't deny.

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[–] stinkymilkman 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Mostly it's stupid because the vast majority of the rescues have been carried out by private citizens who volunteered to save people. The local news estimates 80%+ of the total rescue trips were private.