that-thing
Original: that-thing on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with light hair (worried): Oh no. This public support is gonna do bad things.
Panel 2:
Man with light hair: I mean people are gonna look at the kind of things he did and get the idea that he's the kind of person who would do that kind of thing.
Panel 3:
Man with light hair: Maybe you should stop supporting him.
Man with dark hair (seated, reading): I know he wouldn't do bad things, because when he does a bad thing, I get the impression that we, the kind of guy who does bad things.
Man with dark hair: And now people will think his supporters support the stuff he does just because we support him when he does the stuff.
Panel 4:
Man with light hair: Gee. It's already happening!
Votey:
Man with dark hair (reading, dismissive): His being racist is just playing into the hands of people who say he's racist!
Man with light hair (worried): Oh no. This public support is gonna do bad things.
Panel 2:
Man with light hair: I mean people are gonna look at the kind of things he did and get the idea that he's the kind of person who would do that kind of thing.
Panel 3:
Man with light hair: Maybe you should stop supporting him.
Man with dark hair (seated, reading): I know he wouldn't do bad things, because when he does a bad thing, I get the impression that we, the kind of guy who does bad things.
Man with dark hair: And now people will think his supporters support the stuff he does just because we support him when he does the stuff.
Panel 4:
Man with light hair: Gee. It's already happening!
Votey:
Man with dark hair (reading, dismissive): His being racist is just playing into the hands of people who say he's racist!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A worried man with light, spiky hair frets to a calm man with dark hair who sits reading. The light-haired man warns that publicly supporting someone will make people assume the supporter endorses the bad things that person does. The dark-haired man insists he knows the figure he supports wouldn't do bad things, and complains that people will now think his supporters back the bad deeds just because they back him. In the final panel the light-haired man exclaims, 'Gee. It's already happening!', the joke being that the supporter's own logic is the very thing proving the point. Votey panel: a close-up of the dark-haired man reading, declaring, 'His being racist is just playing into the hands of people who say he's racist!' — a self-refuting line that blames the accusers rather than the racism.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.