Comic intolerance is intolerable

Thor Halvorsen's letter to the editor Sept. 21 complaining about a comic strip exemplifies an alarming trend: people who are overly sensitive and unable to find humor in their own lives.

"The cartoon started by saying, 'Seeing Eye animals that don't quite work,' then shows a picture of a blind man being led into water by a turtle, then a man hanging from a tree because of a cat. Finally it showed a man walking around a store with a fish in a tank on a rolling cart," Halvorsen states.

"Excuse me? Where is the sensitivity of others? How can such intolerance be allowed at a Division I school, in a university paper?" Halvorsen continues.

This, he argues, shows an unacceptable defamation of the blind and "it does not help in getting people to respect service dogs."

Navigating through campus for someone who is blind must be challenging, but get a clue. There aren't scores of skaters and bicyclists intentionally targeting them and their canine companions.

When I went to the U of A, I too had some near collisions and mishaps, but unfortunately, I'm a WASP and don't have an ethnic or disability card to play when I have a crappy day. The day I crashed my bike into a curb to avoid a pedestrian, I didn't say, "Hey man, they did that to me because I'm white."

Did you ever consider that on a campus with more than 50,000 people, that most of them, much like you, were too caught up in their own lives to notice yours? STOP TAKING THINGS SO PERSONAL. That goes for everybody still upset over the last comic too.

John Brown

UA graduate

Former Arizona Daily Wildcat assistant city editor