The Personal Politics of Guilt


Yea, we laugh at the nonsense in a parent telling a kid to clean his plate and eat his green onions because children are starving in [enter name of Fourth World country here.] As if the kid's failure to eat the food will lead to widespread death and starvation in the non-American areas.

Well, allposters.com has taken the concept and run with it:



From the Ontario Empoblog (Latest OVVA news here)

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