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==Symbol of stupidity==

==Symbol of stupidity==

Due to its stubborn nature both real and imagined, the donkey has become a symbol of stupidity; indeed, the word "[[jackass]]", the name for the male donkey (the female is "hinney") has become a pejorative for a person acting or thinking in stupid manner.  In the Italian novel ''Pinocchio''<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/500/500-h/500-h.htm</ref>, the donkey has been set as one such example, as the author had a character named "Candlewick" convince other boys to come with him to a place of lazy idleness, to do whatever they wanted to do, and then finding out later it was a trap set by evil men who had most of them changed into donkeys and sold off.

Due to its stubborn nature both real and imagined, the donkey has become a symbol of stupidity; indeed, the word "[[jackass]]", the name for the male donkey (the female is "hinney") has become a pejorative for a person acting or thinking in stupid manner.  In the Italian novel ''Pinocchio''<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/500/500-h/500-h.htm</ref> and the 1940 [[Walt Disney]] animated film derived from it, the donkey has been set as one such example, as the author had a character named "Candlewick" convince other boys to come with him to a place of lazy idleness, to do whatever they wanted to do, and then finding out later it was a trap set by evil men who had most of the boys changed into donkeys and sold off.

In the United States, the donkey has become symbol of the Democratic Party. In 1828 the presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was defamed as a donkey by his opponents; he in turn was elected the seventh US president, having made the donkey the symbol of his campaign. In 1871 cartoonist [[Thomas Nast]] created political drawings which helped to take down the corruption of New York City boss, [[William Marcy Tweed]].  His "Tammany Tiger", named for the hall from which the Democrat Party controlled the city's finances, had an immediate effect; this in turn led Nast to resurrect the donkey and make it the symbol as a whole for the Democrats - associating it with stubborn stupidity literally overnight<ref>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/political-animals-republican-elephants-and-democratic-donkeys-89241754/</ref> - and in contrast to the bull [[elephant]] he created for the Republican Party.

In the United States, the donkey has become symbol of the [[Democratic Party|Democrat Party]]. In 1828 the presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was defamed as a donkey by his opponents; he in turn was elected the seventh US president, having made the donkey the symbol of his campaign. In 1871 cartoonist [[Thomas Nast]] created political drawings which helped to take down the corruption of New York City boss, [[William Marcy Tweed]].  His "Tammany Tiger", named for [[Tammany Hall|the hall from which the Democrat Party controlled the city's finances]], had an immediate effect; this in turn led Nast to resurrect the donkey and make it the symbol as a whole for the Democrats - associating it with stubborn stupidity literally overnight<ref>https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/political-animals-republican-elephants-and-democratic-donkeys-89241754/</ref> - and in contrast to the bull [[elephant]] he created for the [[Republican Party]].

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