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I can’t explain it exactly, no. The idea I had went something like this: It plays off of two stereotypes. First is the misnomer that immigrants, illegal immigrants especially, steal jobs from American workers and are somehow messing up our economy. The same is true for Wal-mart. Many people believe that Wal-mart forces mom-and-pop stores out of business, squeezes supply chains, manipulates prices, and creates sweatshops in third world countries, which steals away American jobs and negatively distorts the economy. The irony is, those things aren’t necessarily true, and yet Americans ignorantly demand the deportation of immigrants and the cessation of big business. They immediately pull out the “get out!” card. The artist will have to explain whether or not that was his intention…
As Brad suggests, the cartoon plays between two examples of the “get out card” namely Wal*mart and immigration issues. The rest is up to the imagination Have fun!
June 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
I don’t think this one makes much sense. Brad can you explain.
June 27th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
I can’t explain it exactly, no. The idea I had went something like this: It plays off of two stereotypes. First is the misnomer that immigrants, illegal immigrants especially, steal jobs from American workers and are somehow messing up our economy. The same is true for Wal-mart. Many people believe that Wal-mart forces mom-and-pop stores out of business, squeezes supply chains, manipulates prices, and creates sweatshops in third world countries, which steals away American jobs and negatively distorts the economy. The irony is, those things aren’t necessarily true, and yet Americans ignorantly demand the deportation of immigrants and the cessation of big business. They immediately pull out the “get out!” card. The artist will have to explain whether or not that was his intention…
June 28th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
As Brad suggests, the cartoon plays between two examples of the “get out card” namely Wal*mart and immigration issues. The rest is up to the imagination
Have fun!