Back in the 1930s, the British Foreign Office was approached by the German Nazi Party, who were complaining about the work of cartoonist David Low. Uncomprehending about the democratic notion of a free press, the Nazis insisted that Low's ridicule of the fuhrer and his chums was detrimental to Anglo-German relations, and expected something to be done about it.
Actually, it was remarkable that Low's masters at the right-leaning, aristocracy-loving Evening Standard encouraged him to continue. And what he continued to do was to portray Hitler and his henchmen as buffoons and incompetents, in the belief that it was essential to prick the bubble of their sense of self-importance.
How appropriate, therefore, to see a similar approach emerging in present-day Knoxville, where the KKK have been belittled by Clown Power.
And so the Jackboot of intolerance is stamped out by the Giant Shoe of irreverence.
(With thanks to Titivil)
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