Before apologizing on Sunday, Hicks had sounded a defiant tone, calling his critics “liberal Marxist parasites' and insisting that the cartoon was fair commentary on a statewide mask order he described as “authoritarian.'
“This thing is like the trifecta of garbage,” Rabbi Moti Rieber, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, told the AP.At first, Hicks also refused to budge under the wave of criticism, asking to whom he should apologize.. “I would never apologize to them. They’re liberal Marxist parasites.”
Cartoons, he wrote, are “gross over-caricatures designed to provoke debate and response — that’s why newspapers publish them — fodder for the marketplace of ideas.” He criticized Kelly for shutting down the state earlier this year and argued that her mask order “would have certainly led to a resurgence in the ‘freak out factor’ with Kansans being reminded of the virus everywhere they turned, resulting in a new wave of economic malaise.
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