![[1122] Masters And Slaves](/comics/2019-10-11-1122-masters-and-slaves.png "[1122] Masters And Slaves")
On the following page you can find all the info about this year’s Sandra and Woo + Gaia artwork contest which comes with $5000 prize money!
In response to the controversy surrounding Blizzard, we completed this strip as quickly as possible. Here’s the one published yesterday in case you missed it:
![Sandra and Woo: [1121] Party Hard!!](/comics_archive/2019-10-10-1121-party-hard.png "Sandra und Woo: [1121] Party Hard!")
- J. Allen Brack: This concludes our presentation of T-Sam, the first transgender Overwatch heroine!
- J. Allen Brack: We here at Blizzard firmly believe that people of all races, genders, and religious beliefs should be represented in our games!
- Xinnie the Pooh: Mmmm, delicious Uyghur organs!
- J. Allen Brack: Could you please not do that here?!
- Xinnie the Pooh: Shut up, slave, and get me another spleen!
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Someone call Randy Marsh to kill Winnie the Pooh.
@ joy:
except corporations rarely think of long term consequences of their actions like all large groups of human beings, which means an iq that use soap dish would find sad. Individuals can make good decisions but they need time to do so. This was not a situation that allowed them time. And now many people would feel that back peddling would look weak.
@ Vandroiy:
Presenting China as leftist, and starting from the lack of stands taken against China’s persecution of Uyghurs to somehow end up undermining anti-homophobic messages as if they were inextricably linked are both completely inappropriate.
Blizzard’s pinkwashing is rainbow capitalism, not a co-optation of LGBT+ rights into the support of China. Which, by the way, is textbook late-stage capitalism.
Lys wrote:
And “LGBT+” which “happens” to selectively only be defended against “white old men” and “capitalist countries” – although other countries are openly killing homosexuals – is just textbook propaganda. Socialists don’t care the least about homosexuals, sexism, discrimination, militarism, racism or other stuff. They only care if they can use such topics to criticize “capitalist” countries.
I’m suprised there aren’t lots of ranting comments from China loyalists, defending Winnie and his murderous regime as pure as the driven snow and claiming this is part of the evil Western attempt to hold back China’s greatness, blah blah blah.
I’m sure this site is banned in China, but the regime seems to have flunkies monitoring every hint of criticism and responding with spittle-flecked manic rage, so they either haven’t found it yet, or Novil has been deleting comments like crazy. Hope your web host has guts, too.
That said, love your work!
Suggest people perform three searches. First, German Concentration Camps Map. Second. Soviet Gulag Camps Map. Third, Chinese Laogai Camps Map.
The first are closed and destroyed or are museums/memorials. The Second are mostly closed, Putin’s kept a couple open. The third, are not only open, but expanding.
Arent wrote:
I do love watching arguments founded on false dichotomies flounder, but missing the mark hard has a tendency to make them erupt hastily into full-on rabid gibberish, instead of slowly devolving into possibly-hostile declarations of agreeing to disagree. And that’s boring, so let me skip the critique and jump straight to the argument.
“Western leftists” criticizing “socialist” countries that are actually capitalist authoritarian countries, from corners of the globe that are supposedly capitalist democracies, but are really also capitalist and modestly-authoritarian countries, is not only the height of irony, it’s also reality. Calling those people “socialist” or not doesn’t change that, but China isn’t leftist at all.
What might be a more useful discussion is one that acknowledges that protest and criticism does nothing in an all-out fascist state if it is not supported by overt and covert operations to destroy the state’s military and propaganda powers. This is true whether you’re talking about China, modern colonial powers, or any less-powerful, more popularly-viewed-as-criminal, less-capitalistic national leaderships brutally suppressing, torturing, and murdering their own “undesirable” people. (I’m looking at you, former colonies.)
Following this logic, is it any wonder more leftists, “centrists,” AND “conservatives” don’t pick up arms and go tromping off on a suicide mission to fight for actual freedom (or their own deluded notion of freedom), when they are the most likely next casualties of suppressionist governments? (Yes, I realize calling any non-impotent government “suppressionist” is redundant, but not everyone will read this that way if I don’t.)
Give a hypocrite a gun and he’ll still just be a hypocrite with a gun. But let him use it, and he’ll be a dead person who lived what they preached. Which option is more desirable?
If you can’t answer that question, you have no business even thinking about politics, let alone attempting a debate.
I will not be responding to anyone, by the way. I’m not going to pretend I’ll do anything but repeat what I just said.
THANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyouTHANKyou. I’ve thrown away all my Blizzard gear, and am about to delete Overwatch from my PS4.
Have none of you seen what the NBA did when one of their spoke out about Hong Kong? Or have you forgotten how most of your electronics are made in Chinese sweatshops? Or their use of prison labor? How about Tibet? The reason for all these corporations and politicians are so ready to do anything to placate the Chinese is the market of almost a billion people with money to spend.
The whole notion that all politics is just “left” vs “right”, and that any good state is one, and any bad state is the other (notice I didn’t say which), is just ignorant and daft anyway.
Authoritarianism / liberalism is on a different axis from economics, and there are arguments to be made for additional axes beyond those two. Hardline authoritarian governments tend to blur the other axes anyway, because everything else is warped to keep the autocrat or oligarchs in power.
It’s always funny watching true-believers flop about between trying to claim that a country isn’t actually “X” and trying to defending country because it happens to be “X” and blame their political enemies for all the problems in that country… see Bernie Sanders on Venezuela in the Chavista era.
China is a bizarre blend of Stalinist/Maoist authoritarianism, a hardline police state, with a Communist Party spin on the old Chinese bureaucracy that’s lasted through millennia of regime changes… and the sort of cartoon capitalism full of neglect and abuse that the various kneejerk anti-capitalists love to pain all capitalism as.
@ Arent:
It would be much harder to make those jokes if it weren’t for the thousands of Uyghurs who are currently being whisked away to ‘vocational training camps’ and never returning.
Pretty sure the organ bit isn’t anything new. They’ve been taking them from political prisoners and people with ‘subversive’ religious beliefs since the mid 80s.
Won’t you get in trouble for using Blizzard original logo?
Man, these intelectual property rules are so confusing.
Banned in China
One of many life goals to aspire to.
Anyone still boycotting Blizzard?
(Raises hand)
(…I really want to play Warcraft III Reforged but I’d sooner sever a tendon than acquire it legally at this point.)
Reading the last two panels in Jim Cumming’s Pooh voice really sells it for me.
Reminds me of the whole “She-Zow” flap about five years ago, about a cross-dressing superhero(ine) cartoon some parents groups were all up in arms about trying to cancel. That turd barely lasted 26 episodes and was quickly forgotten.