Word: expressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...joke is at least to passively condone. Even if these jokes are just vestiges of past attitudes--which I wish they were--still, to make them, and especially to publish them, is to reinforce the bigotry they express. I am not accusing anyone of being a rapist. However, I am shocked not only that anyone would create such a cartoon or think it was funny, but even more, that through the entire editorial process, not one person on the staff of The Lampoon was aware enough of what this cartoon stated to object to it. This lack of awareness says...
...satisfaction of knowing their country was a superpower -- and the frustration of living in a backward economy. They made their homes in crowded, decrepit dwellings. Shopping for necessities was a daily despair. Citizenship itself was often an insult and sometimes an injury. Their government would not let them express their thoughts or travel abroad. For years they could explain it all away: the hardship was the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazis; the repression was a response to the ever present threat of capitalist imperialism...