News (Media Awareness Project) - CN BC: PUB LTE: Compassion Club Cartoon Inappropriate |
| Title: | CN BC: PUB LTE: Compassion Club Cartoon Inappropriate |
| Published On: | 2011-03-16 |
| Source: | Comox Valley Record (CN BC) |
| Fetched On: | 2011-03-20 00:45:17 |
COMPASSION CLUB CARTOON INAPPROPRIATE
Dear editor,
The Record's very sensible, compassionate and well-considered
editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith's
informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were
followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both
trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need
of it.
The cartoon indulged a cheap-shot stereotype of the "pothead" as a
contemptible druggie and lame-brained lout of the "trailer park
biker-boy" variety.
Not only was the cartoon inappropriate and insulting, the cartoonist's
dialogue balloon got it wrong; the Compassion Club is not "closed."
Not yet, anyway.
Walter Driscoll
Comox Valley
Dear editor,
The Record's very sensible, compassionate and well-considered
editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith's
informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were
followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both
trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need
of it.
The cartoon indulged a cheap-shot stereotype of the "pothead" as a
contemptible druggie and lame-brained lout of the "trailer park
biker-boy" variety.
Not only was the cartoon inappropriate and insulting, the cartoonist's
dialogue balloon got it wrong; the Compassion Club is not "closed."
Not yet, anyway.
Walter Driscoll
Comox Valley
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