They aren't insulting them over the cartoon, they're insulting them over outlandish reactions to something the creators of the cartoon said. People just bring up the actual cartoon as evidence that the people calling them cowards are talking out of their ass.
No, they aren't because it's pretty fucking easy to understand contextualization of events.
They were mocking Donald Trump when he was the stupid orange man who was running for president and saying a bunch of stupid outlandish things.
But now that he's actually president and still saying stupid outlandish things, that's too easy? That's too simple? There's nothing to get from that despite using that same excuse to do so months ago?
One can do something then cheapen out on their beliefs and when they offer a bullshit excuse like "it's too easy so we've decided to back off" it's perfectly acceptable to call them out on it. How is it at all outlandish to expect people that have created and crafted an entire series based on satire and lampooning current events to suddenly just ignore the biggest current even in the world because it's "too easy"? How is it people being stupid and "not getting it" for calling them out on suddenly finding it a chore to satirize a man they had no issues satirizing a few short months ago?
Even if you believe that, there's no fucking excuse nor reason to insult people's intelligence, their beliefs, their morality or who they are. This thread honestly got fucking ridiculously petty and disgusting with some of the faux superiority people have obviously been waiting to trot out so they can profess themselves the "smart" liberals that are sick and tired of the "others" ruining things and using them as a convenient scapegoat for losing.
It's a god damn cartoon. There's no reason to insult somebody over a modern day pulp comic.
