What's the first thing you think of when seeing this New York magazine cover?

[Magiver]

Since it didn’t have both candidtates in it I thought racial issues in politics.

[Jragon]

1. Nice pun.
2. Wait… why is this an issue again?
3. If you magazines stop bringing it up maybe the general populace will have a chance to forget about it, the racists already are racist - the only thing this serves to do is bring race to the minds of the people that don’t already think about it, thereby extrapolating the issue.

@Paladud

Protoss versus Terran. The centerpiece is a strange zealot with large ears and extra facial features tacked on, while a medic panics in the dark background, thinking, “If the idiot who made this map had bothered to put a vespene geyser in the natural, I wouldn’t be in this predicament.”

Didn’t you see the glowing and shinyness? It’s CLEARLY an Archon of some kind!

[Dilton_Doiley_Philosopher_King]

@Jragon

3. If you magazines stop bringing it up maybe the general populace will have a chance to forget about it, the racists already are racist - the only thing this serves to do is bring race to the minds of the people that don’t already think about it, thereby extrapolating the issue.

So the reason I started this thread was to see how many people took it the way I did, it being about a presidential race and not as ethnic race. Some people certainly did, and your point pretty much establishes what I was going for: what does this cover say about those that thought presidential race first, before ethnic race, and is the media perpetuating the race issue by continuing to talk about it (it seems like a vicious circle… the media talks about it because the public is talking about it, but is the public talking about it because the media talks about it?)

I don’t know if this discussion warrants a new thread; it was probably inappropriate for me to “gather data” in a Great Debates thread.