A response to Goldsteins essay.
I believe That cartoons in general are a safer medium for political expression because not everyone would understand a political cartoon. A well educated man might understand the cartoon and take offense to it but, your not going to have some ignorant semi-educated man getting angry over an elephant hitting a donkey over the head with a mallet. Sure the cartoonist could go over the line with the cartoon a bit by taking things to the extremes (talking about same-sex marriage, abortion, etc. in an unfashionable manor). And i do believe if its to vulgar it should be censored by any means necessary.
Go further, Austin. You are talking about politically-minded editorial cartoons. You argue that they are geared toward the educated classes, and that uneducated readers won't be offended. But what about the people -- educated and uneducated -- who responded negatively to Marlette's cartoon? Does education matter? What else might matter? What about emotion?
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