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(Cartoon to be published in the bulletin of Marcelo Freixo, a state deputy and veteran human rights defender)

A Rio de Janeiro police commander called his force the "best social insecticide" after killing at least 9 suspected drug traffickers in a slum, but rights activists said the comment showed police were targeting the poor.

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~LatiaIam:iconLatiaIam: Apr 25, 2008, 8:48:24 PM
Powerful. I like the lines here.

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~Elcool:iconElcool: Apr 26, 2008, 1:12:09 AM
I think the Nazi symbol is a bit too much. The cartoon is about police, not antisemitic people or racists. I have nothing to do with news story. A police symbol or a label "The Police" would have been a lot better. Targeting the poor is NOT the same as racism.

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~taniazk:icontaniazk: Apr 26, 2008, 3:53:47 AM
i think the nazi symbol is fine.the police keeps and uses nazi tactics mostly against the poor who dont have the means to buy her out!and u should know that any factor that divides people into kategories, IS RACISM. social racism. and deep down, religion has nothing to do with racism. not then and not now.

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~Elcool:iconElcool: Apr 26, 2008, 5:49:41 AM
But as a cartoon, the swastika doesn't do it's job at conveying the artist's intents to relate to a police activity. Usually Latuff's cartoons are understandable without the comments below. I think this one is a miss, mostly because of the Nazi symbol. When you talk about "social racism", the more correct term is "classism" ([link]). Both racism and classism are forms of discrimination, and I think the wrong one was presented here.

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~illiyun:iconilliyun: Apr 26, 2008, 5:28:39 PM
calling oneself an "insecticide" after killing "people" is horrible because it is degrading those dead from their humanity and taking them as bare animals... hence your illustration fits perfectly; Nazism also saw all people other than Aryans as "insects" which must be killed to have a "clean and perfect" society...
~mightybearrr:iconmightybearrr: Apr 26, 2008, 6:24:33 PM
that and anti-semitism is bigotry, not racism!

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!kombat-unit:iconkombat-unit: May 9, 2008, 9:56:58 AM
I just love this picture.

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