The Cartoonist A Cartoon From Gibbleguts.com - 1402 Words

In Source 1, a Raeside Cartoon from Gibbleguts.com, the cartoonist takes an accusatory stance towards people who protest globalization. In the cartoon, a man is standing and holding a sign that declares, â€Å"STOP GLOBALIZATION NOW!† This man has arrows and words around him indicating where his material possessions were made; his glasses from Singapore, his shirt in China, his shoes in Indonesia, and so on. In addition to being dressed in an outfit that does not look like something that would be worn on a regular basis, the man is also being mocked for the stance he takes on globalization. He protests the very thing that brought him every last item that he is wearing and using in the picture; he is a hypocrite. Instead of protesting by boycotting products from other countries, or making everything himself, he partakes in the very thing that he is so displeased with. This man is not to be taken seriously; he is not making a strong case. A parallel could be drawn to a person wh o, while protesting the treatment of banana plantation workers in South American countries, eats a banana from one of those same countries. Another example could be of a person using social media to protest the dangers of coltan mines, even though they access social media using a mobile device that uses coltan from those very same mines. There is no point in protesting anything, whether it be globalization or the harms of multination corporations attaining such power throughout the world, if you are going to