Thursday, January 20, 2011

Daily Mail (UK) cartoon equates gay couples with Nazis

by Seph Brown -
 
Today the Daily Mail predictably backed the right of business owners to discriminate against homosexual couples.
As horrific as it is, I am not shocked by their editorial line.
I am however confused and angered by the paper’s cartoon, satirising the event by depicting two burly, gay, neo-Nazi bikers attempting to enter a Christian hotel:

'Isn't that romantic, George, dear? Mr and Mr Smith would like the bridal suite.'
                'Isn't that romantic, George, dear? Mr and Mr Smith would like the bridal suite.'

I understand that you wouldn’t want a Nazi staying in your B&B, so are the Mail saying that gay couples are like Nazis?
As far as I am aware, unlike the decades of discimination against the LGBT community, the ‘oppressed Nazi’ is not a particulatly large or sympathetic minority group.
Maybe I’m just a humourless lefty, but I don’t get it.


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1 comment:

  1. It's easy for me to imagine the drawing being of a male-female couple as offensively attired & tattooed. It would make the same point - that Christians get to serve people they approve of and anything else is ludicrous.

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