Chris Dore, editor-in-chief of The Australian, is either really fucking stupid, or he thinks the readers of Super Rupe’s increasingly fash-forward white pride fanzine are.
Sadly my surviving parent would agree with the casual racism of the Oz. Yet strangely she loves the Philip Adams dose of sanity in their Weekend Mag. Wonder if I can get her into reading ASB?
I get the hardcopy Weekend Australian to see the usual suspects spew their vileness in the News and Opinion sections - then I surface to fresh air with the literary review pages and the Weekend Magazine - Phillip Adams and Trent Dalton et al.
The Australian's racism is pretty nauseating, is it true that Dore only lept to the defense of "The intention of the commentary in the cartoon was to ridicule racism, not perpetuate it." after it was raised in the US.
I am uncomfortable with you republishing these images, even if it is for the purpose of ridiculing them. The piece works fine without you amplifying the racism.
I am fine with John including the cartoons since I don't read The week-day Australian. Were I still teaching the cartoons of Johannes Leak would be exhibits in any classroom discussion of racism which I would assuredly conduct. At age 71 I think I can look at such ugliness and use it against itself.
Thanks Jim. I didn't much like having them on my desktop while I was putting the piece together, but I don't see it as amplifying the racism. It'd be different if I was blasting them out across an open platform like Twitter for Facebook, but I'm not. I did think about blurring the text to rob Leak of his 'joke', but the text is an inherent part of the nastiness. I take Katrina's point, and I'll try to be mindful of the issue in future, but I'd characterise the use here as being academic and forensic.
I try as hard as possible to stay away from publications like the Australian. Had the "images" not been published here, I'd have been forced to visit the Murdoch stronghold to have a gander at them which of course would have artificially inflated their visitor numbers thereby achieving even wider coverage for the "images".
Actually, having said all of this makes me now think that you may in fact be a Murdoch troll sent here to divert us all to News Corpse & virtue signal us all back into the stone-age! Be gone with you troll!!!!!
Sadly my surviving parent would agree with the casual racism of the Oz. Yet strangely she loves the Philip Adams dose of sanity in their Weekend Mag. Wonder if I can get her into reading ASB?
Haha. Good luck.
I get the hardcopy Weekend Australian to see the usual suspects spew their vileness in the News and Opinion sections - then I surface to fresh air with the literary review pages and the Weekend Magazine - Phillip Adams and Trent Dalton et al.
The Australian's racism is pretty nauseating, is it true that Dore only lept to the defense of "The intention of the commentary in the cartoon was to ridicule racism, not perpetuate it." after it was raised in the US.
I am uncomfortable with you republishing these images, even if it is for the purpose of ridiculing them. The piece works fine without you amplifying the racism.
I am fine with John including the cartoons since I don't read The week-day Australian. Were I still teaching the cartoons of Johannes Leak would be exhibits in any classroom discussion of racism which I would assuredly conduct. At age 71 I think I can look at such ugliness and use it against itself.
Thanks Jim. I didn't much like having them on my desktop while I was putting the piece together, but I don't see it as amplifying the racism. It'd be different if I was blasting them out across an open platform like Twitter for Facebook, but I'm not. I did think about blurring the text to rob Leak of his 'joke', but the text is an inherent part of the nastiness. I take Katrina's point, and I'll try to be mindful of the issue in future, but I'd characterise the use here as being academic and forensic.
I try as hard as possible to stay away from publications like the Australian. Had the "images" not been published here, I'd have been forced to visit the Murdoch stronghold to have a gander at them which of course would have artificially inflated their visitor numbers thereby achieving even wider coverage for the "images".
Actually, having said all of this makes me now think that you may in fact be a Murdoch troll sent here to divert us all to News Corpse & virtue signal us all back into the stone-age! Be gone with you troll!!!!!
Nah, Katrina’s fine, Tim. It’s a reasonable point she made. I obviously disagree with it, but it’s not without real merit.
I dunno, maybe you could just *not* look at the images? Worked fine for me. Also, what?
I was actually attempting to employ some early morning sarcasm. It wasn't my intention to offend you. I don't honestly think you're a troll.
Early morning is the most dangerous time for sarcasm.