NYT announcing their collective antisemitism.

By way of cartoon.

When first shown this cartoon I gave this ten seconds of thought and dismissed it as too poor a cartoon to have any affect whatsoever. It's just stupid. Poorly conceived and poorly executed, as a child trying and failing at making some unworthy political statement. It wasn't worth examination.

But then I saw the cartoon on every site that I visit. And no-one bothers to analyze the cartoon because there is nothing to analyze besides naked vitriol. All the sites agree this is NYT making itself part of a wider liberal overt anti-semitism. That's the subject discussed. How it got published, and the lame response.

The cartoon puzzled me. Why a dachshund? There is nothing in the breed that I know about that links it to Jewish people or to Israel. Bred to flush out badgers. Is that a negative thing? The leash is loose, is the dog leading Trump or is Trump taking the dog for a walk? If the leash was tight then it could be seen the dog is pulling Trump.

But the real Trump that is obvious to all observers isn't pulled anywhere by anyone. To suggest that he's led by Netanyahu is ridiculous. In fact, by observable action, Trump has led the entire western world in its relation with Israel. Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem for example. Other nations followed Trump. Netanyahu did not lead Trump into that move.

If the sunglasses are meant to suggest Trump is blind, then a dog on a leash is not a guide dog. Those dogs uses braces not leashes. A leash would be ineffective. It's like the cartoonist doesn't even know how guide dogs work.

Netanyahu's eyebrows are a bit arched, but arched eyebrows hardly characterize Netanyahu. They're a very poor cartoon indicator. I honestly didn't now who the cartoonist meant to represent. The real clue being in the Magen David on the dog's collar.

Trump is actually quite tall, not so short-legged as a dachshund. To suggest Trump is short is insane.

It is an extremely poor political cartoon especially compared with the veritable mountain of anti-semitic cartoons of the last ninety years. It does not contribute to what we already have. Disgusting as the sentiment, it still generated quite a few serious minded cartoons. The globe wrapped up in an octopus' arms representing Jews for example. The repulsive representations of Jews with large hooked noses. And this theme of a Jewish leader leading a western leader around has already been done. So this cartoon is derived from previous cartoons, the motivating thought unoriginal. It is not an original idea or an original cartoon.

I just totally sucks as a cartoon.  There is zero quality to it.

And there it is. All over the place, all at once. As if it has any importance.

GAWL!

How did that crap cartoon even get published?

Now NYT political cartoons have become as insipid as their crossword puzzles have become. 

I wasn't going to bother mentioning any of this because the cartoon isn't worth mentioning. But then tonight something happened that was terribly similar and I was all, omg, this is one of those convergent bizarre coincidence things happening again, or something. 

I was only outside for ten minutes or less. I had only walked down the street, crossed Broadway, then walked on the other side in the return direction half a block when I encountered a tall thin black man dressed in full black with a very long stick tapping his way with one shoulder leaning heavily away from the street coming my direction. He was having a difficult time walking.

I said, "Hi."

He was concentrating deeply. Negotiating a set of stone planters smack in his way. His stick was not red-tipped, rather, it was white with a tan band at the end. He was so blind that he didn't even know that his walking stick has the wrong color tip to designate him a blind person. In America. 

Maybe he's a foreigner. Maybe foreigners have different color canes for blind people. This was right in front of the hostel. 

No sunglasses. His eyes were really messed up. As if they were gouged, and set into spirals. 

He did not respond to my greeting. 

But the weirdest thing of all, I still can't get over this, he was walking his dog on a loose leash. The tiniest fuzziest little black poodle you ever saw in your life. The same as this stupid ass anti-semitic cartoon. The dog couldn't possibly be a seeing eye dog. Worst seeing eye dog ever! 

He was simply walking his itty bitty dog, no larger than a rat, and using his tapping cane independently. 

That's the thing with blind people, they don't all do the same thing. A blind woman I met at the Shetland Sheepdog obedience training class used a German shepherd guide dog but no tapping cane. She told me the cane slows her down. 

And this tall man who uses his cane but not a seeing eye dog really was rather slow in tapping out those two planters.