Blackface at The New Yorker - - or, when is PC just PATHETIC?

The funny thing most New Yorker cartoons...is how unfunny they are.

Lately, let's add something else: how UN-PC their attempts at being PC are.

An example:

It seems that the cartoon editor has been instructing artists to "be INCLUSIVE...draw characters OF COLOR." That's OF COLOR, not colored-in characters?

The "black" in this cartoon looks colored in, doesn't it? Nothing too ethnic about the woman otherwise. How many women like her do you see at Whole Foods buying kale? The percentage is low.

If blacks actually read The New Yorker, they might picket the office. As in: "Black Humor Matters...don't portray us using blackface." Richard Pryor this is not. Wanda Sykes this is not. Who else do you want to name? Steve Harvey? SNL's Michael Che? Any of them going to be talking about Yoda? Any of them use the expression "blows you out of the water?" Blows, maybe. The rest, maybe not.

Maybe Rachel Dolezol. She tried to pass for black and it wasn't funny.

How about THIS one? What WOULD be funny is if "Black Lives Matter" and various other angry and outraged black groups decided that it is offensive to use Negro Stereotype features in a cartoon.

THIS New Yorker cartoonist is making SURE that everyone knows this is a MIXED COUPLE, and that one of them is BLACK. BLACK. VERY VERY BLACK.

Does the hair give you a clue? The huge lips?

YUP. Another way the kneejerk New Yorker staff wants to show how PC they are is to leave NO DOUBT when they're doing something noble with colored people. Oh, "people of color." GOT to remember one phrase is OFFENSIVE and the other ISN'T.

Poor poor New Yorker. They just can't get it right.

They aren't alone, of course. Consider NBC, the network that got a lot of criticism for airing "Sanford and Son," which portrayed two blacks as nothing but JUNKMEN, with a bunch of stereotypical cohorts like "Aunt Esther," who squinted and said, "Fish eyed fool" and "I'm gonna get you, sucka!"

A few years later, they got even more criticism for airing "The Cosby Show," which dared to ignore race and show (gasp) an affluent upper-middle-class black family that didn't dress ethnic. (Well, there WERE those God-awful sweaters Cosby wore). Either way, Redd Foxx or Bill Cosby...wrong, wrong.

As for The New Yorker, if this is "woke," go fluff up your organic husk-filled non-goose-feather pillows and go back to sleep.