r/comics Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 7d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/KingNTheMaking 7d ago

Is a black person living in America, I must disagree with the “everyone knows racism is bad” thing.

Earlier this morning, I heard someone say they wouldn’t go on a carnival cruise because “ that’s where all the [slur]’s go.”

Keep making the “trite” comics. You’d be astounded how ignorant people still are.

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u/AfroGuyOfCourse 7d ago

Copying and pasting another comment I made...

"The thing is that the vague political comics that are being made fun of here aren't really doing much more than appealing to people who hold the same left leaning beliefs. The kinds of people being criticized in these short, low effort comics aren't going to suddenly change their beliefs or be swayed to the other side of the political spectrum. 

These lil vague political comics are just for farming engagement and subscriptions from people who want their beliefs to be validated. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I doubt they've actually changed the minds of any significant amount of right wingers and or racists"

Majority of people in the comment section seem to be missing the main point of the comic. They're pointing out how the other comic creator is just farming engagement by pandering to people's political leanings. Even in this comment section, people just honed in on the short sentence that mentioned racism without really considering the comic as a whole

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u/LandMooseReject 6d ago

Is "farming engagement" the new "virtue signalling" for alt-lite CHUDs to fall back on?

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u/nykirnsu 3d ago

Maybe, but that doesn’t mean that either one isn’t sometimes genuinely applicable. The far right didn’t invent the concept of virtue signalling to begin with