Are Jack Chick tracts hate speech?

Eudaimonist · Mar 22, 2013

Cactus Jack said:
If ya don't like them, don't read them.

That much is true.

No hate speech whatsoever.

That doesn't follow. They are hate speech in the sense that they tend to draw the "villians" as ugly (both body and soul). Example:

How is that NOT hate speech? D&D players are being villified.

Now, perhaps it doesn't fall under legal definitions of hate speech because that applies to sex, race, gender orientation, religion, etc, and not to clubs such as a D&D group. In that case, those Chick Tracts that attack Catholics are hate speech, and of course those that attack non-Christian religions such as the pagans (or whatever they are) that are behind Dungeons and Dragons.

But I don't object all that much to hate speech. It's okay to take a moral stance on an issue, and to portray evil people as evil. One may criticize the hate speech for its lack of reality, but not for calling a spade a spade.

eudaimonia,

Mark

Hetta · Mar 22, 2013

Eudaimonist said:
I have to admit, they are good for entertainment value.

Jack Chick's idea of reality:

Reality:

LOL!

eudaimonia,

Mark

It's kind of like the "panic" over Harry Potter, where the far right wing fundies were urging that she was putting "real" spells in her books, and that JK was a "real" witch. Sigh. They don't even realize how many people they push away with that nonsense.

Yoder777 · Mar 22, 2013

What is there to like about Chick tracts?

cow451 · Mar 22, 2013

I posed for this one.

Cute Tink · Mar 22, 2013

I've really only read the ones against D&D, quite a few years ago. I also found them unintentionally very funny. Basically, within the D&D people I knew, they were considered jokes.

The ones I've seen don't really rise to the level of "hate speech". Ignorant as can be, sure. If there are some truly vicious ones out there, I haven't seen them.

Yoder777 · Mar 22, 2013

I am not the first person to have referred to Chick tracts as hate speech:

Jack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) is an American publisher, writer, and comic book artist of fundamentalist Christian tracts and comic books.[1] His comics have been described by the Los Angeles Magazine as "equal parts hate literature and fire-and-brimstone sermonizing".[2]
Jack T. Chick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chajara · Mar 22, 2013

Yeah, I'm just going to leave these here:

Camel's in the Tent

Crazy Wolf

Uninvited

*barf*

wannabeadesigirl · Mar 22, 2013

Chajara said:
Yeah, I'm just going to leave these here:

Camel's in the Tent

Crazy Wolf

Uninvited

*barf*

I did not know those existed. Good grief. Proselytizing is all very good and well but nothing is worse than IGNORANT proselytizing.

Non sequitur · Mar 23, 2013

Chajara said:
Yeah, I'm just going to leave these here:

Camel's in the Tent

The way that started, I thought it was going down the "just the tip" scenario.

dies-l · Mar 23, 2013

Chajara said:
Yeah, I'm just going to leave these here:

Camel's in the Tent

Crazy Wolf

Uninvited

*barf*

These three are clearly hate speech. Bigoted drivel. I stand corrected from my previous post.

dlamberth · Mar 23, 2013

I don't think that the Chick Tracts are hate speech. But I do believe that they do not come from the Heart of Christ.

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Wiccan_Child · Mar 24, 2013

Belk said:
I love Chick Tracks! Not only are they unintentionally hilarious I can think of no better tool for recruiting atheists.

^This.

Cactus Jack · Mar 24, 2013

Well golly gee, I suppose if you don't like what they say...THEN DON'T READ THEM!!!!

freezerman2000 · Mar 24, 2013

Chajara said:
Yeah, I'm just going to leave these here:

Camel's in the Tent

Crazy Wolf

Uninvited

*barf*

Holy Smelly Stuff! Let's bludgeon them to heaven through fear!
Those are really extreme!

Wiccan_Child · Mar 24, 2013

Cactus Jack said:
Well golly gee, I suppose if you don't like what they say...THEN DON'T READ THEM!!!!

"Know thy enemy" is a good adage to live by. I think we should fight such vitrolic hatred as the Chick tracts, don't you?

seashale76 · Mar 24, 2013

Cactus Jack said:
Well golly gee, I suppose if you don't like what they say...THEN DON'T READ THEM!!!!

The biggest issue is that the information presented in those tracts about certain people and groups is highly inaccurate to the point of absurdity. It's bearing false witness. Plus, the theology being pushed is terrible.

Adaephon · Mar 24, 2013

Cactus Jack said:
Well golly gee, I suppose if you don't like what they say...THEN DON'T READ THEM!!!!

*tilts head*

We generally do not. However, it's such batexcrement insane vile hatred that it's a little hard to completely avoid them out of a sense of morbid curiosity. And we Christians have to know what they say because plenty of non-Christians read them and come to the conclusion that Christians are generally ignorant hatemongers.

Myself, I put Jack Chick nearly on the same level as jesus-is-lord.com and Fred Phelps.

freezerman2000 · Mar 24, 2013

I know a guy who collects them..as a weird past time.
He told me that the best place to get them is waiting in line to get into a rock concert....

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