This IS 2010, isn't it?!?!?

[knapplc]

Seriously, what in the name of Touchdown Jesus were these people thinking?

Notre Dame student paper apologizes for cartoon

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The independent student newspaper for the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College has published a staff editorial apologizing for a cartoon that made a joke about violence against gays.

The editorial Friday says The Observer newspaper created an "egregious" error in judgment when it published the cartoon Wednesday.

The newspaper also ran an apology from the cartoon's writers. They say the cartoon was meant to address intolerance of homosexuality on the Catholic university's campus but was offensive.

The cartoon depicts a conversation that says the "easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable" is with "a baseball bat."

Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins issued a statement condemning the cartoon.

Assistant managing editor Aaron Steiner says an internal review is under way.

Here is the cartoon:



Listen, I don't care what ideology you follow, there's no way this is cool. You have to know that.

[AussieDodger]

Wow

[Metroid]

I mean really?

[J35J]

I LOL'ed

[Madison]

I LOL'ed

Me too.

The world has become way, way too PC. Another few years and no one will ever say anything due to fear of saying the wrong thing.

[Tavish]

I LOL'ed

Me too.

The world has become way, way too PC. Another few years and no one will ever say anything due to fear of saying the wrong thing.

LMAO. After reading the comic I figured no one would argue that people were being too PC about it, then I came to my senses and realized Maddy would.

[Art Vandelay]

I challenge anyone to find anything more funny than assaults on gay people, or even assaults in general. Especially asaults that result in them being in a vegetative state. LOL. It doesn't get any better than that. I almost wet myself that's so funny.

[Dan Lambskin]

I challenge anyone to find anything more funny than assaults on gay people, or even assaults in general. Especially asaults that result in them being in a vegetative state. LOL. It doesn't get any better than that. I almost wet myself that's so funny.

what about an assault on a black gay jew by a racist homophobic anti-semite...that's gotta add some funny

[ensanimal]

I challenge anyone to find anything more funny than assaults on gay people, or even assaults in general. Especially asaults that result in them being in a vegetative state. LOL. It doesn't get any better than that. I almost wet myself that's so funny.

what about an assault on a black gay jew by a racist homophobic anti-semite...that's gotta add some funny

Is he a midget?

[Metroid]

I challenge anyone to find anything more funny than assaults on gay people, or even assaults in general. Especially asaults that result in them being in a vegetative state. LOL. It doesn't get any better than that. I almost wet myself that's so funny.

what about an assault on a black gay jew by a racist homophobic anti-semite...that's gotta add some funny

Is he a midget?

Now you're going to far joking about the vertically challenged.



Seriously though that joke just isn't funny, it's even less funny that it's in a newspaper at all affiliated with a university. What's next? They going to start publishing comics depicting black people hanging from trees? This has very little to do with being PC. It's about not spreading hate and promoting violence...especially in a university newspaper, even an independent one.