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Australian artist who drew racist Serena Williams cartoon deletes his social media account as the Murdoch-owned newspaper he works for tries to defend it
[MAIL] The cartoonist behind a racist depiction of Serena Williams at the US Open final deleted his Twitter account on Tuesday as his Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper tried to defend the controversial illustration.
I thought it was pretty funny, but I'm an old crank.
On Tuesday, The Herald Sun ran an article titled 'Herald Sun backs Mark Knight's cartoon on Serena Wiliams' in which the newspaper's editor Damon Johnston said: 'It had nothing to do with gender or race. This was about a bad sport being mocked.'

Knight, who hit back at one Twitter critic who called him sexist but said nothing to the tens of thousands of people who labeled him racist, erased his profile after going on an Australian radio show to plead his case.

On Monday, he had shared the image proudly writing: 'My toon in today's Herald Sun.'

Within minutes, he was inundated with criticism from people all over the world who called the image 'disgustingly racist' and 'truly vile'.
That didn't take long.
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-09-12
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