I feel uncomfortable with this one, too. What I read is “KKK members can only do acts of kindness”. Maybe it’s supposed to be sarcastic, but it doesn’t work for me

Everybody in this thread is arguing about white vs black magic and forgetting that the KKK leader is called the “Grand Wizard” for real. It’s the reason for this comic.

Also to the people saying that this implies that black people can only cast black magic. That implies that black magic is bad. I disagree, think Final Fantasy.

I don’t like the idea that the KKK is capable of healing magic lol.

Where did you get the impression that black people are only capable of black magic?

This only implies this single white racist is only capable of white magic. It doesn’t say anything about other white racist, let alone about black people in general.

This is about as funny as a “dead baby” joke to me, i.e. not funny at all despite having the same anatomy as a joke.

While I completely understand your viewpoint here, and it is absolutely not a comic I would share, because I’ll admit my interpretation could be incorrect, that’s not how I took it. I take it as an inversion of the white/black good/evil dichotomy. White magic is generally considered good, but is being weilded by a clearly and objectively evil person, whereas the black man is capable of withstanding and being unaffected by it means there is some kind of protection over him, to me speaking to the possibility of divine protection from white (read: evil) magic.

It may help that I’m also reading the word white as “hwite” and it makes the klansman look even more like an asshole, but it also creates a difference in my brain between “white magic” little w, as, like, good and righteous magic, and “White magic” big w, racially based shit magic wielded by racist shits.

I’m reading way too much into this because of a preexisting interest in magic systems, and a weird brain that likes to try to turn all soft magic systems into something I can define and understand. Lol. I also have a preexisting dislike of the idea of white/black magic in fantasy, and never use the terms in my own writing for exactly that reason. It’s the same problem with the idea of right/left politics. The human brain is pretty hardwired to think of one direction as good and the other as bad. Which one that is shifts culturally, but in the west right is good, left is bad (Dexter became a name we willingly give our children. Sinister became the word for evil, vice, scary things and danger). Superstition may be stupid and dumb, but our animal brains don’t realize that. Until we reach some enlightenment not yet achieved, people will associate the right with good, even when it’s proven time and again to be dangerous and evil. We are, afterall, dumb monkeys that figured out how to wear clothes and split the atoms. But we’re still just dumb monkeys.

Anyway… Tl:Dr, I read way too much into this, and took it as an inversion of the white/good trope.

I think it’s more that white mages in FF tend to wear all white robes.

But yeah, they’ve been getting real bad about toeing the line of going too far lately. There was a comic the other day that all but called their audience r*tarded