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10 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Yep. Historically, it is arguably liberal voices that have been more frequently "canceled" than conservative voices. I'm old enough to remember some of the times @DoonesburyComic was "canceled" dating back to the mid-1970s.
Having never heard of Mallard Fillmore before, I went to its website and perused its last couple of weeks worth of strips. Damn. Maybe the reason the strip was "cancelled" by those papers is that it is painfully unfunny and not very clever.
I mean, seriously. Today's strip features a truly lame joke about @Disney, @starwars, and non-binary gender. Another strip is about a cheerleader and "incitement" to demolish her team's opponents.
This is perhaps the lamest of the bunch, a truly tone-deaf and stupid take on white privilege. comicskingdom.com/mallard-fillmo…

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