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Originally Posted by blankall
Reading up more on it, apparently there's an overtly racist cartoon shown as a sample of the "New Frontiersman's" work. I haven't seen it yet, but if true, that's a pretty solid link between Rorschach and racism.
HBO's website has tried to fill in the gaps too:
https://www.hbo.com/content/dam/hbod...urnal-memo.pdf
In this universe, Rorschach has influenced a wide variety of fringe groups.
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Just found the cartoon in question |
I wouldn't call the comic overtly racist, but it is incidentally racist. There's only one non-white person among the villians. That comic is about traditional american values being challenged by rivals, and defending traditional american values is the engine that drives Rorschach.
Rorschach spends a lot of his scenes in prison with a black psychologist, and I don't recall him ever disparaging his psychologist for his race in his thoughts or actions. I think Rorschach see's a world with bigger problems than race.