Tennis

[skend04]

What's a sambo?

The sequel to Rambo.

[Spy Bee]

Why is the cartoon racist?

[Scooby Dudek]

They obviously read TLW;

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-45479954

 

An Australian cartoonist has defended his depiction of Serena Williams at the US Open, after the image went viral and was criticised as racist and sexist.

Mark Knight's newspaper cartoon showed Williams jumping above a broken racquet next to a baby's dummy. Critics said it used racist stereotypes.

The cartoonist denied it was racist, saying he had intended to depict only the tennis player's "poor behaviour".

Some also said Knight had "whitewashed" Japanese player Naomi Osaka.

Williams sparked controversy during her loss to Osaka when she accused the umpire of sexism and being a "thief".

Knight's drawing was published in Australia's most-read newspaper, the Herald Sun on Monday, and referenced Williams's outburst and showed the umpire asking Osaka: "Can you just let her win?"

It has been strongly defended by Knight and the newspaper's editor, Damon Johnston, who denied the cartoon is racist or sexist.

"It rightly mocks poor behaviour by a tennis legend... Mark has the full support of everyone," he said in a tweet.

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But critics, including author JK Rowling, compared the cartoon to past racist caricatures of African-American people.

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Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop. https://twitter.com/Knightcartoons/status/1039017329030393856 …

 

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You couldn’t be more racist if you tried - and you reeeeeaaally tried. Using those classic sambo tropes- enlarged lips, overexaggerated body parts to depict Serena as hyper masculine- next time just use an old ad from the 1800s- no one would notice the difference in your racism

 

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Others on social media pointed out that Osaka, who is mixed race, had been drawn as a white woman with a blonde hair.

The National Association of Black Journalists in the US denounced the cartoon as "repugnant on many levels".

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"[it] not only exudes racist, sexist caricatures of both women, but Williams' depiction is unnecessarily sambo-like," it said in a statement.

The 1899 children's book, The Story of Little Black Sambo, featured derogatory racial depictions - such as characters with thick red lips.

Knight said he had "no knowledge of those cartoons or that period", saying on Tuesday that "the world has just gone crazy".

"The cartoon was just about Serena on the day having a tantrum. That's basically it," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Knight also rejected a suggestion that he would not draw a similar image of a man. As evidence, he tweeted his recent cartoon of tennis player Nick Kyrgios.

Racism in Australian cartoons

One sociology expert told the BBC that Knight had used "a genre that has a long history of racist impact".

"The author may not even realise their own framing of the world has been shaped by history of racism in Australia," said emeritus Prof Andrew Jakubowicz from the University of Technology, Sydney.

He said there had been "a tradition" in many Australian cartoons to exaggerate physical characteristics of minority groups, including indigenous Australians, to "trigger a reaction" - such as humour.

Knight was also accused of racism last month for a cartoon which showed faceless black figures fighting in a Melbourne subway, a reference to a debate about African-Australian street gangs.

[Bjornebye]

Fuck all racist about the picture.

 

Sambo though? Fucking hell

[Moo]

Why is the cartoon racist?

It's a very unpleasant depiction of Williams and though we don't know what was in the artist's mind when drawing her, the whitewashing of Osaka is very questionable and as a whole deserves the suggestion of racism.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Are everybody's eyes fucked? Osaka is almost identical in colour to Serena. Well, according to the colour palette in photoshop, anyway.

[Captain Howdy]

Ordinarily I’d have thought nothing of it, it’s an accurate statement on her behaviour if anything, but the depiction of Osaka does make it questionable.

[skend04]

Fuck all racist about the picture apart from depicting Serena as a sambo caricature and whitening up Osaka.

 

Sambo? Fucking hell

Fixed.

[Creator Supreme]

Oh bollocks, people are looking for racism where there isn't any, no wonder the anti-semitism bollocks with Labour has gone on so long!

 

Let's have all future satirical cartoons with all people denoted by amorphous green blobs shall we?

 

Or am I oppressing amorphous green blobs?

[Captain Howdy]

Oh bollocks, people are looking for racism where there isn't any, no wonder the anti-semitism bollocks with Labour has gone on so long!

Let's have all future satirical cartoons with all people denoted by amorphous green blobs shall we?

Or am I oppressing amorphous green blobs?

I wouldn’t say that it was definitively racist but I do find the depiction of Osaka as odd.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Ordinarily I’d have thought nothing of it, it’s an accurate statement on her behaviour if anything, but the depiction of Osaka does make it questionable.

 

 

What depiction? The colours are actually very similar (her skin tone is darker than Williams) and totally different to the Umpire. 

[Spy Bee]

He's taking the piss out of her for being a big crybaby cunt. It's nothing to do with race or anything else.

[Mook]

What depiction? The colours are actually very similar (her skin tone is darker than Williams) and totally different to the Umpire. 

 

Williams' opponent in the cartoon has blonde hair.

 

Not that I give a fuck to be honest, some tennis cartoon in some shit Australian arse rag is pretty low on my list of things to get worked up about,

[Numero Veinticinco]

Williams' opponent in the cartoon has blonde hair.

 

Not that I give a fuck to be honest, some tennis cartoon in some shit Australian arse rag is pretty low on my list of things to get worked up about,

 

 

Two things to say about that, I guess. First is, her ponytail is blonde. You know, like this.  Second, are we deriving race by hair colour these days? Third, you're spot on about this not being something to get worked up about. Zero fucks given really. It's clear that anything that can get called out will get called out. 

[Trumo]

 

 

Two things to say about that, I guess. First is, her ponytail is blonde. You know, like this.  Second, are we deriving race by hair colour these days? Third, you're spot on about this not being something to get worked up about. Zero fucks given really. It's clear that anything that can get called out will get called out. 

 

Even if you think it was in.

 

[Mook]

 

 

Two things to say about that, I guess. First is, her ponytail is blonde. You know, like this.  Second, are we deriving race by hair colour these days? Third, you're spot on about this not being something to get worked up about. Zero fucks given really. It's clear that anything that can get called out will get called out. 

 

I would certainly never derive race from someone's hair colour, I just don't think the opponent in the cartoon resembles Osaka at all. I'm not sure it's even meant to look like her to be honest which is possibly why people are getting their panties in a bunch.

[Numero Veinticinco]

 I just don't think the opponent in the cartoon resembles Osaka at all. 

 

 

To be fair, you didn't even know her hair was blonde a minute ago. Besides, it looks as much like her as Williams. It's a cartoon. It's a load of old bollocks trumped up by SJW. 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

General rule, if you're making a caricature of a black person, don't draw massive fucking lips like racist images of yore. There are other aspects of Williams' appearance he could have emphasised.

 

Not saying he set out to do it, or that he's racist because of it, but the image itself is a little troubling because of that aspect.

[ZonkoVille77]

Rich dickhead in acting like a rich dickhead shocker.

[Mook]

To be fair, you didn't even know her hair was blonde a minute ago. Besides, it looks as much like her as Williams. It's a cartoon. It's a load of old bollocks trumped up by SJW. 

 

It's actually ombre, baby girl.

 

*clicks fingers

 

 

[Spy Bee]

General rule, if you're making a caricature of a black person, don't draw massive fucking lips like racist images of yore. There are other aspects of Williams' appearance he could have emphasised.

 

Not saying he set out to do it, or that he's racist because of it, but the image itself is a little troubling because of that aspect.

Isn't that what cartoonists do, accentuate significant features? There is nothing racist about that. 

[Hand Shandy]

I wouldn't say Serena Williams' lips were particularly out of the ordinary in terms of size or shape, so emphasising them lays the cartoonist open to criticism for using a historical stereotype - hence the 'sambo' (that word makes me wince) calls.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Isn't that what cartoonists do, accentuate significant features? There is nothing racist about that.

 

But she doesn't have swollen pink lips and a giant tongue, that's straight out of the 1920s cartoon school of depicting black people. It's up there with a hook nose for cartoons of Jews.

[Spy Bee]

But she doesn't have swollen pink lips and a giant tongue, that's straight out of the 1920s cartoon school of depicting black people. It's up there with a hook nose for cartoons of Jews.

I'm not having that it's racist. 

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=baby+crying+cartoon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiN9e3ajbPdAhUrIcAKHcE-AVgQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943

 

This shows a lot of very similar mouths and yet almost all depictions are of white kids. The lips are obviously different, but then Serena does have big lips. I think he's attempted only to illustrate her as being a cryarse, with no racist intentions.

[3 Stacks]

It's racist but because it's a woman I don't care.

 

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