Editor,
There is a lot of discourse taking place these last few days in regards to the moral appropriateness of a general celebratory attitude surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden.
I find myself somewhere in the gray area between thrilled-silly and disowning those who find joy in the death of even the most evil people.
But I do feel rather strongly that the publication of a “The Lion King”-themed cartoon depicting the president holding a severed human head (even that of a malicious terrorist responsible for the deaths of hundreds-of-thousands of innocents) is a grim and lowbrow move at this juncture.
I realize that the cartoon itself is most likely an exaggerated commentary on Americans’ rash, ecstatic jubilation, as well as a possible jab at what some are considering a self-congratulatory speech by President Obama on Sunday night, but I don’t think that such a graphically obvious image does anything to promote a thoughtful reaction to what has happened and what’s to come.
Not to mention, you just added another photo to the online database of images depicting Obama as a monkey.
Justin Otsuka
UNM student
