Here’s What’s Wrong with that Dumb Houston Cartoon That Mocked the Drowning Victims

The images of out of Houston have been heartbreaking and inspirational.  It’s been especially hopeful to see neighbor helping neighbor as well as the many expressions of faith.

For example,

This is how the Houston area faces hardship. pic.twitter.com/3mNNLxrSAT

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 31, 2017

and

This needs to go viral. Someone is struggling with their faith in God & this should encourage all of us!#ToGodBeTheGlory#HoustonStrong pic.twitter.com/c8WRl5B43P

— Joel D. Swisher (@jswishdaman) August 28, 2017

Of course, the left wing media can’t let Christians express their faith without some good old fashioned ridicule, with some racism accusations thrown in to boot!  Look at this cartoon, created by left-wing artist Matt Wuerker:

RIDICULOUS: Politico Runs Another Comic Designed To Get Trump Re-Elected In 2020 https://t.co/ktQ3xQQHdV pic.twitter.com/c0KgiVnsNo

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 30, 2017

Politico deleted the tweet, but not the image of it on its website.  The Daily Wire explains why this cartoon is just so dumb:

First, people in Texas pay taxes. They pay them to the federal government and the state government and the local government. The vast majority of the emergency response has been state and local. Texas could secede and still maintain disaster response.

Second, the anti-religious nonsense embedded here suggests that Texans are a bunch of bitter clinger morons who think that helicopters are angels. That’s the most rote, empty view of religious people imaginable.

On top of that, The Federalist points out that it’s such a politically ignorant drawing.  (And not well-done at that.)

Even if you are the kind of jerk who thinks it’s fun to mock people for their politics as they’re drowning, Wuerker’s understanding of the political situation in Houston leaves much to be desired.

I get that most people in the media are currently out of their gourds with Trump derangement, but Texas isn’t even particularly Trump-enthusiastic. Ted Cruz won the GOP primary there with 44 percent of the vote to Trump’s 26.7 percent. Just over 52 percent of the state voted for him in the general. And in Houston’s Harris County, Hillary Clinton soundly defeated Trump.

Houston is the fourth most populous city in the country, an engine of the national economy, and much more complex than Wuerker’s crude understanding would suggest. No matter who any of these flood victims voted for, only a truly wretched heart would mock them as they are dying or dealing with catastrophe most of us will never know.

“This sort of out-of-touch commentary drives Americans into the arms of people who don’t despise them – people like Trump,” wrote Ben Shapiro.  “Like Trump or hate him, at least he isn’t sitting around calling the hurricane victims a bunch of benighted rubes.”

h/t The Daily Wire 

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