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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 11:51 PM On 2010-03-09 23:26, JOHN-O wrote: It's not so much I think the Goof is ugly but from the first time I saw him he seemed like either a mid-century racial caricature or a mean-spirited imagery of the mentally handicapped. Yes I know Tiki culture is supposed to be politically incorrect but that's the bad vibe that I get. :roll: Of course it's a racial caricature, what else would it be !? I just don't think it was done "mean spirited", in a racist kind of way. But cartoons and caricatures are by their definition meant to make fun of something. It's supposed to be F-U-N-N-Y.

On 2010-03-09 23:26, JOHN-O wrote:
It's not so much I think the Goof is ugly but from the first time I saw him he seemed like either a mid-century racial caricature or a mean-spirited imagery of the mentally handicapped. Yes I know Tiki culture is supposed to be politically incorrect but that's the bad vibe that I get.

:roll: Of course it's a racial caricature, what else would it be !? I just don't think it was done "mean spirited", in a racist kind of way. But cartoons and caricatures are by their definition meant to make fun of something. It's supposed to be F-U-N-N-Y.

Post #516194 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 11:51 PM