{"id":3742,"date":"2022-01-21T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2022-01-21T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:45:07","slug":"just-tell-me-who-im-supposed-to-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"Just Tell Me Who I’m Supposed to Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This story about apparel company, Carhartt, wasn’t necessarily big news this week, but it’s the one my brain found interesting. So, yeah, I apologize for my characters needing to explain it in the cartoon. I spent considerable time trying to interest myself in something that would be more snackable, but, you know how it is with brains sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came across the story in the\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>. (It’s behind a paywall, but I’m sure you can search for it elsewhere.) What hooked me was\u00a0a teaser headline with “Michigan-based company” in it.\u00a0But as I read on, I found myself doing exactly what the guy in cartoon is doing \u2014 looking for a good guy, looking for a bad guy, trying to fit the story into a familiar narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Carhartt a hero for looking after the health and safety of its workers and insisting on COVID-19 vaccinations? Or a villain for not accommodating all of its workers? Am I annoyed with conservative media for turning so quickly on a company that makes products championed by its demographic? Does it matter that the workers protesting at its plants in Kentucky are unionized? And so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually it occurred to me \u2014 I wasn’t learning anything, I was only processing. It was simply information \u2014 a well-written news story with the facts and context, and it wasn’t intended to be pro-this or anti-that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, it made me take a beat to consider: Maybe I should try understanding the whole story before trying to figure out who I’m supposed to hate. (And maybe that second part isn’t necessary.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story about apparel company, Carhartt, wasn’t necessarily big news this week, but it’s the one my brain found interesting. So, yeah, I apologize for my characters needing to explain it in the cartoon. I spent considerable time trying to interest myself in something that would be more snackable, but, you know how it is with brains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}