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Reply #75 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:23pm

Gizmo, you can spin it any way you please (as you are) but the simple fact is that the cartoon does stereotype Indians as being too dumb to understand what a solar panel is, too dumb to use it for its intended purpose, and to make it edible (impossible) let's add not sugar.....but chutney....another direct barb at Indian culture. They are also, of course, wearing rags, another false stereotype of a typical Indian.

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Reply #76 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:26pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:32pm:

Let me just string up a power line for you, Sahib... it will not take long.....

https://eclipsedbyjoy.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/india-powe-r-lines.jpg

Not many of those will be power cables Grappler. Can you guess what in fact most are?

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Reply #77 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:39pm

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:18pm:

Karnal wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:00pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:56pm:

Karnal wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 2:52pm:

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Which particular survey says that the people in India want solar, rather than food??

Which particular survey says that the people of rural India want food rather than electricity, Gizmo?

Oh, that's right. It was in the cartoon.

"India's hunger 'shame': 3,000 children die every day, despite economic growth
Thursday Feb 16, 2012 6:52 AM
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Severely malnourished girl Rajni, 2, is weighed by health workers in Madhya Pradesh, India, February 1.

BY REUTERS
Crying as she is put on an electronic scale, two-year-old Rajini's naked shriveled frame casts a dark shadow over a rising India, where millions of children have little to eat.

The children are scrawny, listless and sick in this run-down nutrition clinic in central India with its intermittent power supply. If they survive they will grow up shorter, weaker and less smart than their better-fed peers.

Rajini weighs 5 kg (11 lb), about half of what she should.
"She's as light as a leaf, this can't be good," says her grandmother, Sushila Devi, poking her rib-protruding stomach in the clinic in Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh state.

Almost as shocking as India's high prevalence of child malnutrition is the country's failure to reduce it, despite the economy tripling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia's third largest and annual per capita income rising to $489 from $96.

1 in 4 children malnourished, global report says

A government-supported survey last month said 42 percent of children under five are underweight - almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43 percent five years ago.

The statistic - which means 3,000 children dying daily due to illnesses related to poor diets - led Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to admit malnutrition was "a national shame" and was putting the health of the nation in jeopardy.

"It is a national shame. Child nutrition is a marker of the many things that are not going right for the poor of India," said Purnima Menon, research fellow on poverty, health and nutrition at the Institute of Food Policy Research Institute.

India's efforts to reduce the number of undernourished kids have been largely hampered by blighting poverty where many cannot afford the amount and types of food they need."

Of course I do understand that you need to 'blame' any middle class Australian for the failings of other countries economic systems...(which make YOU a really sad and silly, individual)

I know, Gizmo. But did you have to leave in the part about the intermittent power supply?

And exactly how much food would a constant power supply grow, for the people living in the slums in capital cities???

Good question, Gizmo. Perhaps we can put it on the agenda at the International Climate Conference.

Just to be on the safe side, we're changing it to a conference on world hunger.

Happy?

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Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media
Reply #78 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:41pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:23pm:

Gizmo, you can spin it any way you please (as you are) but the simple fact is that the cartoon does stereotype Indians as being too dumb to understand what a solar panel is, too dumb to use it for its intended purpose, and to make it edible (impossible) let's add not sugar.....but chutney....another direct barb at Indian culture. They are also, of course, wearing rags, another false stereotype of a typical Indian.

No, Aussie, it's a comment on the problem of malnutrition in Indian children. Gizmo has the 2012 article to prove it.

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the good ole boys Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 658 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #79 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:10pm Ooooooooh. He made Indians look like plastic and metal eaters.
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Reply #81 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:19pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:23pm:

Gizmo, you can spin it any way you please (as you are) but the simple fact is that the cartoon does stereotype Indians as being too dumb to understand what a solar panel is, too dumb to use it for its intended purpose, and to make it edible (impossible) let's add not sugar.....but chutney....another direct barb at Indian culture. They are also, of course, wearing rags, another false stereotype of a typical Indian.

No, despite the nationality of your 'bride' the cartoon is not actually 'racist'...it is, in fact, a cynical shot at the COP21 fools who 'think' that solar panels are the be all and end all of the way to fix everything that's wrong with the world..

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Reply #82 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:23pm

Karnal wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:41pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:23pm:

Gizmo, you can spin it any way you please (as you are) but the simple fact is that the cartoon does stereotype Indians as being too dumb to understand what a solar panel is, too dumb to use it for its intended purpose, and to make it edible (impossible) let's add not sugar.....but chutney....another direct barb at Indian culture. They are also, of course, wearing rags, another false stereotype of a typical Indian.

No, Aussie, it's a comment on the problem of malnutrition in Indian children. Gizmo has the 2012 article to prove it.

Yes, it actually IS a comment on the malnutrition in Indian people..children AND adults...the date on the article is not a factor...

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"I just get sick of people who place a label on someone else with their own definition.

It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Reply #83 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:24pm

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:19pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:23pm:

Gizmo, you can spin it any way you please (as you are) but the simple fact is that the cartoon does stereotype Indians as being too dumb to understand what a solar panel is, too dumb to use it for its intended purpose, and to make it edible (impossible) let's add not sugar.....but chutney....another direct barb at Indian culture. They are also, of course, wearing rags, another false stereotype of a typical Indian.

No, despite the nationality of your 'bride' the cartoon is not actually 'racist'...it is, in fact, a cynical shot at the COP21 fools who 'think' that solar panels are the be all and end all of the way to fix everything that's wrong with the world..

That's fine, Gizmo. You keep telling yourself that. Eventually you'll be convinced. Meantime, I recognise racial bigotry via ridicule of a stereotype when I see it.

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the good ole boys Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 658 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #84 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:34pm I've been looking at this cartoon over and over again and I can't work out what starvin' Marvin is doing in the background with the shovel behind his head. Is he about to "knock his family on the head" because they are done for??? Very interesting indeed.
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the good ole boys Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 658 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #85 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:35pm racial stereotyping!!
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Reply #86 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:59pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:24pm:

gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:19pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 3:23pm:

Gizmo, you can spin it any way you please (as you are) but the simple fact is that the cartoon does stereotype Indians as being too dumb to understand what a solar panel is, too dumb to use it for its intended purpose, and to make it edible (impossible) let's add not sugar.....but chutney....another direct barb at Indian culture. They are also, of course, wearing rags, another false stereotype of a typical Indian.

No, despite the nationality of your 'bride' the cartoon is not actually 'racist'...it is, in fact, a cynical shot at the COP21 fools who 'think' that solar panels are the be all and end all of the way to fix everything that's wrong with the world..

That's fine, Gizmo. You keep telling yourself that. Eventually you'll be convinced. Meantime, I recognise racial bigotry via ridicule of a stereotype when I see it.

Of course you will...which doesn't mean that you are able to recognise anything close to 'racial bigotry' in any way, shape or form...since you are actually too stupid to 'notice' the difference between sh!t and Shinola...

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"I just get sick of people who place a label on someone else with their own definition.

It's similar to a strawman fallacy"
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Sun Tzu Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1148 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #87 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 5:03pm gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:59pm: you are actually too stupid to 'notice' the difference between sh!t and Shinola... Gizmo knows sh!t.
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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 #88 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 5:13pm Sun Tzu wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 5:03pm: gizmo_2655 wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:59pm: you are actually too stupid to 'notice' the difference between sh!t and Shinola... Gizmo knows sh!t. No, I don't actually 'know' YOU...so sorry..since you are actually sh!t, and I don't 'know you'....
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Karnal Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 95639 Gender:	Re: Australian racist cartoonist berated in media Reply #89 - Dec 18^th, 2015 at 5:14pm the good ole boys wrote on Dec 18^th, 2015 at 4:35pm: racial stereotyping!! No no, Homo, there’s no racism here. It’s just a bit of hunger-stereotyping.
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