Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “tricksy”, features a trademark tendency of Mo: he criticizes something, and then Jesus then points out Mo’s hypocrisy, for what he’s criticized is also true of Islam. Poor Mo, blinded by faith!
As the artist commented, “That’s exactly what you’d expect from Mo.”
Remember, the strip has been going 20 years, and you might donate a few bucks to support the artist.
I always love these, thank you, but this one is especially delicious!
Oof! Yeah. That’s a kill-shot.
True
These turns of phrase were identified as thought-terminating clichés by Robert Jay Lifton in his 1961 book (feel free to find a copy – perhaps a free 1989 reprint online).
Nowadays I’d refine that to be thought-inhibiting cliché.
Once I knew what to look for – the effect of a TTC – lots of things become transparent / emerged from a fog.
Yes, this is argumentum ad hominem. A much newer term captures the same phenomenon: Whatabout-ism.
Why do the hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against Israel have nothing at all to say about outrages that arguably are incomparably worse — pitiless slaughter in Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria; and relentless nihilistic terror from Iran. Many of those demonstrators will firmly rebuke us: “This is whatabout-ism.”
Such a thoughtful way of dealing with moral issues!
Exactly! Where is the outrage about the 300+ kidnapped catholic school children in Nigeria last week? What? No encampments at Columbia yelling “return our children”? Oh wait, that would be Islamophobia.
Yes indeed.
No Joos = no noos! Sadly.
Islam presents a civilizational level threat. But we’re worried about stupid little things instead.
D.A.
NYC
It’s so much more easy and popular to dumb down than to level up. Sort of the Second Law of Thermomoronics.