Bigoted Violence is not bloody funny

[sparkindarkness]

Notre Dame student paper has posted a oh-so-funny cartoon


The joke?

'What’s the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?'
'No idea.'
'A baseball bat.'


This is the alternate punch line because the original joke (ending with "AIDS" rather than "A baseball bat") was considered to make light of a fatal disease. Because, y'know, making light of violent gay-bashing is SO much better.

GLAAD has demanded an apology and retraction of this vile thing


I just have no words. Ye gods

Comments

[recessional]

That's really awful.

I mean, it doesn't surprise me - more because it's a college-student-newspaper than anything else. College-student-newspapers, in my experience, think the most bewildering and offensive things are "funny" or "edgy" in their student-contributed cartoons.

[sparkindarkness]

I wonder at any gay students in that college and what they'll face with this. Down right depressing

[(Anonymous)]

As a queer recent graduate of that university, I am utterly outraged on behalf of GLBTQ individuals as well as those of us who are alumni of that school. That strip is not representative of the community we seek to foster.

[sparkindarkness]

Definitely not representative of the community you seek to foster...

But is it representative of the community as it is? Or a significant part?