主题：【原创】钉在历史耻辱柱上的毒舌：部分西媒对震灾的歪曲报道 -- 厚积薄发

A verbal apology is cheap and useless, let’s make an example by making this guy lose his job. The following draft still needs some work: name of the 10 major advertisers of the newspaper.

I will boycott Plain Dealer’s major advertisers as long as you carry Mr. Darcy’s work

Dear Editor,

Thank you for removing the heartless cartoon by Mr. Darcy regarding the China earthquake from your website. Unfortunately, this is not enough, especially as an apology from Mr. Darcy is not forthcoming. Anyway, a verbal apology is cheap and we have no use for that.

If you have trouble understanding the seriousness of Mr. Darcy offense, go try to draw a cartoon about Katrina or the Sago coal mine tragedy and pin it to our government's foreign policy, and see what reaction you draw. Outright racism against Chinese under the thin pretense of political comment has reached a whole new level recently, from CNN’s “thugs and goons” comment to Mr. Darcy’s earthquake cartoon. As a Chinese American, I am seriously concerned that what happened to Jews in Nazi Germany would eventually happen to us if this trend went unabated. Under such grave danger, something more than a verbal complaint is called for.

I have compiled the 10 major advertisers by your newspaper: GIVE THE LIST HERE. I will stop buying anything from them as long as Plain Dealer carries Mr. Darcy’s work.

I am forwarding this proposal to all my Chinese American friends. They may agree with you that Mr. Darcy was merely exercising his freedom of speech and had a slip of bad taste; or they may agree with me: Mr. Darcy’s cartoon is a thinly disguised hate propaganda which has way crossed the boundary and quite dangerous, thus we’d better act while we still have the freedom to act.

Fortunately this is still a free country. Mr. Darcy can continue to exercise his freedom of speech in his so-called “art”; we can exercise our right of not buying something while we still have that right.

Sincerely yours,

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After you edit and send it, would you please put the final version as well as the editor’s email address here? So we can join in by sending something like:

A friend just forwarded the following email to me. Just want to inform you that I am joining his boycott. I am forwarding this to all my friends as well, Chinese or not. I still have lots confidence in this country: I believe it is not only Chinese Americans who don’t want to see it sliding into the mode of Nazi Germany.