I wholeheartedly disagree with this. Calvin’s dad is the furthest thing from a Republican
He believes in bike superiority, despises advertising in all its forms, and endeavors to preserve nature. Just because he’s a stoicist doesn’t mean he’s conservative.
Its not attributing the character to the political parties, but the context of what they are saying.
Unless someone can show me the cell, I’m fairly confident that his quote isn’t even from the comic. The text appears to be edited.
Every time he talks about building character, it’s in regards to facing and overcoming a challenge or difficult circumstances.
If you want to illustrate a point, don’t resort to deciet and deception. That will only perpetuate the problem.
Oh, i am not op. And yes the frame was edited, for at least the father saying life being hard built character was kinda stapled on the bottom from a different comic. I don’t think the intention was to slander the characters in the Calvin cartoon. The intention was to show different philosophies the certain political movement as the OP sees them. I do happen to agree though.
I also came here to defend Calvin’s dad from slander. If I remember right, Watterson has talked about how Calvin’s dad probably most closely reflects his own opinions.
Thanks, you said it better than I would have.
This is grossly offensive. Calvin is great, and Calvin’s dad is also great. The only Republican anywhere in a Calvin and Hobbes analogy should be Moe.
Calvin’s dad is honestly right about things a lot of the time, but he has a ton of trouble getting support from Calvin because what he says isn’t what Calvin wants to hear, and also because he’s undeniably kind of lame. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader what political party that makes him.
Idk man. I definitely think it’s a reference to how Calvin views his dad. ‘ go do something you hate being miserable build character’ , and all that.
But it winds up having to misrepresent both the Republicans and Calvin’s dad in order to bring the two together which means it’s just wrong.
Like if that whole bottom panel wasn’t there, and it was just the Democrats talking with the actual left wing people, it would already be complete and I think it would be pretty accurate.
Fuck off mutilating Watterson’s work for a cheap joke. Absolute trash
