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bhrgunatha  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: George Carlin on assassination

From the strip:

    It's always people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another

Talk about cherry-picking examples to make a point.

A cursory read through wikipedia's assassination page gives plenty of opposite examples.

Pretty sure Julius Caeser, Philip II of Macedon and Indira Gandhi weren't preaching peaceful co-existence.





johnnyFive  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't forget too that Malcom X, who is named in the strip, wasn't exactly preaching harmony, either.

user-inactivated  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The revisionists have figured out his legacy for us.

jadedog  ·  3045 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha. You're right. As with many jokes, he's selectively making a point. I just didn't think of that list of people like that until I saw the comic.