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Australian racist cartoonist berated in media
Dec 18^th, 2015 at 10:42am

Its no surprise Murdoch's media is involved. The cartoon is devoid of humor and is insulting.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/12049...

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A newspaper cartoon in Australia showing starving Indians attempting to eat solar panels with mango chutney has been criticised as racist and drawing on “a stereotype from the 1950s”.

The cartoon, by Bill Leak, one of the nation’s best-known cartoonists, appeared in The Australian, a daily broadsheet published by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp which has tended to take a sceptical approach to action on climate change.

Chris Kenny, a columnist at the newspaper, told IBTimes India that the cartoon was "mocking the Paris deal for spending aid on climate instead of reducing poverty", adding that "solar panels are not the greatest need in developing world".

But the cartoon prompted a tirade of criticism on social media and in the Indian media.

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Phemanderac Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3507 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #1 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 10:45am Leak, that's another word for taking a piss isn't it?
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Reply #2 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:17am

The Indian press automatically claims racism for any story about Indians living in Australia.

Remember the Indian man in Melbourne (in 2010) who 'claimed' that he was the victim of a racist attack by 4 Australian men who supposedly poured flammable fluid over him and his car and set them alight????

It was apparently quite ok for an Indian newspaper to depict Australian police as KKK members back then...

(Oh and incidentally, the guy from Melbourne got burned while trying to torch his own car, for the insurance money)

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the good ole boys Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 658 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #3 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:20am To me the cartoon says that they need food instead of solar panels. That's why they are eating the solar panels. What is racist about that??
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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #4 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:24am the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:20am: To me the cartoon says that they need food instead of solar panels. That's why they are eating the solar panels. What is racist about that?? Yes, that's what it says to anyone with a brain....so lefties are, of course, excluded..
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Reply #5 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:26am

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:24am:

the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:20am:

To me the cartoon says that they need food instead of solar panels. That's why they are eating the solar panels. What is racist about that??

Yes, that's what it says to anyone with a brain....so lefties are, of course, excluded..

They can't help it I suppose. Being dumb is in their genes.

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Sun Tzu Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1148 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #6 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:33am Maybe Leak was expressing the Australian credo of: 'If you can't drink it, fukk it, wear it or eat it, it ain't worth sh1t".
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Reply #7 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:36am

Sun Tzu wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:33am:

Maybe Leak was expressing the Australian credo of:

'If you can't drink it, bugger it, wear it or eat it, it ain't worth sh1t".

Or maybe he was expressing the Human credo of: "There's no point giving starving people television sets, when what they want and need is a decent meal"??

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Sun Tzu Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1148 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #8 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:44am Leak is a racist that has disgraced himself and Murdoch.
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ian Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 9451	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #9 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:48am Inaccurate anyway, Indians starve because of their own cultural racism, not because of lack of resources.
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Sun Tzu Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1148 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #10 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:52am ian wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:48am: Inaccurate anyway, Indians starve because of their own cultural racism, not because of lack of resources. Many more multiples of Indians starved to death under British rule than have starved since. British cultural racism?
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Reply #11 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 12:15pm

the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:20am:

To me the cartoon says that they need food instead of solar panels. That's why they are eating the solar panels. What is racist about that??

That’s right, Homo. It also shows these Curries are so stupid they’ll eat anything if it comes with a bit of mango chutney.

It’s not racist.

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gizmo_2655 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16010 South West NSW Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #12 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 12:15pm Sun Tzu wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:44am: Leak is a racist that has disgraced himself and Murdoch. Nope, he is not a racist (based on that cartoon) and didn't disgrace anyone other than overly sensitive idiots..
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Reply #13 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 12:17pm

Karnal wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 12:15pm:

the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:20am:

To me the cartoon says that they need food instead of solar panels. That's why they are eating the solar panels. What is racist about that??

That’s right, Homo. It also shows these Curries are so stupid they’ll eat anything if it comes with a bit of mango chutney.

It’s not racist.

Sorry, no Karnal...it shows that the people at the climate change conference are so stupid they think that the poor in India should eat solar panels..

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Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media
Reply #14 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 12:20pm

the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:26am:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:24am:

the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 11:20am:

To me the cartoon says that they need food instead of solar panels. That's why they are eating the solar panels. What is racist about that??

Yes, that's what it says to anyone with a brain....so lefties are, of course, excluded..

They can't help it I suppose. Being dumb is in their genes.

Exactly. Pointing out their inherent genetic mental inferiority can hardly be called racist.

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