Is this racist?

[HairOfTheDog]

Is this racist?

This float -- featuring a dummy of a sickly looking senior standing next to his walker, outside an outhouse labeled as "Obama Presidential Library" -- was part of a July 4^th parade in Nebraska.



It's stirred internet debate as some people are up in arms about it and calling it racist. I don't understand that in this case. I see it as political satire -- like the floatist expressing his views that Obama's health policies are driving the country into the shitter.

I wonder if the people who consider the Obama outhouse float racist also consider this float racist? It's from an Obama presidential rally and features George W. Bush being guillotined. That's his head in the basket.


I don't see the Bush float as racist either -- again, just political satire -- albeit more extreme, in my opinion.

If Hillary Clinton becomes the next US President, will political satire against her be automatically labeled misogynistic?