That was my thinking as well. Nast’s Black character is a Union soldier with the American flag, clearly that’s the person we’re supposed to sympathize with.

The caricature of the Irish guy looks a lot more offensive than the black guy getting trampled in that cartoon.

I think you’re doing Nast and Blitt dirty: the former was (notably and commendably, particularly for that era,) commenting on how the 3 competing parties quietly agreed on one issue - keeping blacks “under foot” - and he did so with one of the least-offensive portrayals of race of any of his contemporaries. You also el…

That way you can yell “Alexa, make me a cup of coffee”, to which she responds “Sorry, I didn’t get that.” You then say “Alexa, coffee pot on”, and she replies with “Ok, starting up the Roomba”. By the time you actually get it brewing you’re wide awake!

Okay, I’ll bite. Why not.

White anxiety over identity is so real and toxic. These people are actually doing all this shit and enacting all this policy because they’re afraid of America becoming a less white nation... in the future... when they’ll all be fucking dead. Despite the fact that we need immigration to keep our working adult populatio…

He’s a Republican. Who made the effort to go to a Trump rally and hold up a sign instead of doing any real activism.

Yeah, we are seeing the logical (or should I say “illogical”) result of decades of misinformation from Fox News and other right wing media. An alternate universe has been created that has no basis in reality.