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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
2018-09-12
[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

#9  All about race or entitlement tantrums.
Nothing about being unable to recover from birth trauma.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-09-12 13:25  

#8  Never afraid to take on issues of right and wrong, Nast became the scourge of Tweed and Tammany. His influence was so great primarily because of the visual nature of his work. Most of Tweed’s constituents were illiterate, so while they couldn’t read the scathing articles written about Tweed in The New York Times, they could understand Nast’s cartoons. Legend has it that Tweed was so threatened by Nast, he gave orders to “stop them damn pictures!”
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-09-12 12:50  

#7  Maybe he should have caricatured Rachel Dolezal in lieu of Serena. Would that be PC enough?
Posted by: gorb   2018-09-12 12:20  

#6  Ok, offended geniuses. I challenge you to come up with. Non-racist caricature.

Not sure how else to draw a full figured black woman athlete having a roid rage; perhaps as Bruce Jenner.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2018-09-12 11:22  

#5  'Racism' - any time a white person goofs on a non-white person.
Posted by: Raj   2018-09-12 09:52  

#4  More commentary plus more Knight cartoons.

Seemed like typical cartoon exaggeration to me. Predictably brought out the humorless scolds.
Posted by: KBK   2018-09-12 09:48  

#3  But sanity takes a stab at it: Newspaper doubles down with front page response to Serena Williams cartoon critics
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy   2018-09-12 08:48  

#2  Ok, offended geniuses. I challenge you to come up with. Non-racist caricature.
Posted by: gorb   2018-09-12 04:12  

#1  A total of 17 people were killed in three days of violence that began when the gunmen opened fire at Charlie Hebdo in revenge for its past publication of satirical images of the Prophet. With demand surging for this week's edition, Charlie Hebdo planned to print up to 3 million copies, dwarfing its usual run of 60,000.

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Auzzie cartoon - Within minutes, he was inundated with criticism from people all over the world who called the image 'disgustingly racist' and 'truly vile'.

Could it be the same "all over the world" protestors ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-09-12 01:35  

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