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Rick McKee's Boy Scout Cartoon refers to a political cartoon by cartoonist Rick McKee for The Augusta Chronicle intended to satirize how the Boy Scouts of America would begin allowing girls into the organization beginning in 2018 by imagining the organization would allow a "Gender-Neutral Non-Binary-Identity Person Scout." Similar to This Is the Future Liberals Want, the post was mocked by some for presenting what they considered a positive thing. It also was parodied as an exploitable with, users photoshopping other things into the "Now" half of the cartoon.

Origin

On October 13th, 2017, Rick McKee published a political cartoon in The Augusta Chronicle^[1] showing a Boy Scout in the "Then" half of the cartoon, and a "Gender-Neutral Non-Binary-Identity Person Scout" in the Now half of the column, ostensibly making the point that if the Boy Scouts of America would allow girls into their organization, they would allow people of any gender expression.

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On October 15th, 2017, Twitter user @rCharlotteSmith^[2] posted the comic with the caption "This, but unironically," gaining over 2,600 retweets and 14,000 likes (shown below).

The same day, Tumblr user agoodcartoon^[3] posted the comic, saying "great." After the comic was posted there, several Tumblr users reblogged the post with photoshopped edits using the comic as an exploitable. For example, user siobahnblank edited the comic such that the second panel read only "Scout" (shown below, left). User wheresanegg reblogged the post with the Scout character from Team Fortress 2 (shown below, right)

On October 20th, Buzzfeed^[4] covered the spread of the Tumblr parodies, including discourse on how the comic was obsolete as the Boy Scouts had already been allowing trans boys into the organization, as well as discussions about the Boy Scouts announcement (shown below).

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