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Crunchy Frog

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16. I agree with your post, but

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:49 PM

Jan 2017

It does not reflect anything that's in the OP, which is what my question really concerned.

In the OP cartoon, at any rate, privilege or lack thereof, is defined exclusively according to socioeconomic criteria. The differences in skin color between the two characters appears to be either a coincidence, or possibly a stereotype. The privilege of the white dude in the cartoon would be completely lost on the people of rural Indiana, where my nieces come from.

I would argue that the cartoon fails to achieve what it claims to. Your post does a much better job of it.

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