Come on now. I'm not that surprised by DR's post.

This is the same guy that said U of I football isn't recruiting enough white people.

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Many caricatures have been drawn of Trump, of which many have been distasteful for his position as POTUS. But because it's Trump, there has not been the outrage this cartoon has received.

Because the subject is black, does that mean it's automatically racist? Is there no way that Serena could be depicted in a caricature without being racist? Based on peoples' reactions, it would seem the answer is no.

Perhaps there isn't.

And I'm sure you understand that.

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Don't take it personally.

Nobody is above being lampooned.

Period.

Serena Williams is old enough to control herself, and she is also old enough to suffer the consequences of acting like a complete selfish asshole.

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Sure, anyone can be lampooned. And Serena deserves to take heat for acting like a douchebag. But let me ask you a question. Does Serena have big giant lips?

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Why is the asian girl depicted as a blonde white woman and the hispanic judge as a white man?


It's just a wildly inaccurate 'toon

Were there any cartoons about Zina Bash? That would be awesome.

He should have depicted Osaka in a top hat and skull necklace .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Another case of roid rage

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Compared to a Helen Hunt or Holly Hunter, of course (what is it with women with Hunt in their name having extremely thin lips?), but what is a caricaturist to do?



I think it is a stretch to assume anything other than that the artist was trying to portray that she was acting like a baby, and he took and accentuated her apparent features. That is a caricature.

See also: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366& ... OkulrYiAz8

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Allow me to generalize: Australians are even bigger racists than we are.

The cartoonist is brave

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I'd expect that type of post from The Hawk but not Dignified Rube.

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Serena Williams will be just fine .

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I really don't think the cartoonist was trying to be racist, but it's been interpreted as such. How could he be, working for a major newspaper, if he wanted to stay in his job?

The effect he was trying to achieve was to match her ridiculous tantrum on the court, including breaking her racket, to her caricature depiction. There's no getting around that Serena is a hulk of woman, and this is how she was portrayed. As for her large mouth, this was done to emphasize her crying or whining, but not done in any intentional stereotypical way. Anyone who has studied art and specifically, cartoon art, would realize that immediately.

Maybe you don't like the rendering, but it's supposed to be an exaggeration. That's what makes it comical, like how Trump is portrayed as fat and his hair fake in his caricatures. Because she has won many majors and is a prominent world-class athlete does not make her immune to ridicule, when in this case she deserved it. How many of the people who have criticized the cartoonist and accused him of being racist actually watched Serena's blow-up? I don't think this has ever happened with a woman to this degree, and she only made it worse for herself by accusing the chair empire of sexism, when she had been in the wrong according to the rules.

That isn't a racist cartoon, I can show you some racist cartoons/memes

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The actual event was not even half of what McEnroe used to do, however, if rules disallow looking over to a coach during a game (which is pretty stupid), her actions afterward deserve ridicule just like anyone else's would.

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On her face, no. Not sure about elsewhere.

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Many comedians have complained that humor is dead, because social justice has taken us to the point that virtually any criticism based on a person's qualities is off limits. And I would say that is more true of minorities, mostly black, than anyone else. After seeing the reaction to this benign cartoon, I can see why that is true. This is shame, because much of the humor from the 70s and 80s that people found funny was based on race. For example, how about Richard Pryor's interview skit with Chevy Chase on SNL, when they were shouting racial slurs at one another, or Eddie Murphy making fun of Italian people in his stand-up routine by mimicking Stalone? Such humor would not be palatable now. But it's still ok for black people to make fun of themselves, but not anyone else, like in Coming to America, which was definitely a funny movie.

If the cartoonist was black and not an Australian (people were just as guilty of stereotyping him), would the reaction had been the same? Definitely not. But that's not to say that a black cartoonist would not have drawn Serena differently. It's very possible he would have.

1) comedy is dead, it's been replaced by making good points about Donald Trump

2) you really shouldn't draw Serena Williams like a mammy

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2018 US Open

Code violations

Men 86
Women 22


Keep fighting that blatant sexism in tennis, Queenie .

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Not in that picture. She did a snapchat or Instagram thing on pregnancy lips though. No idea if he was referencing that, doing a (poor)caricature or falling back on negative racial stereotypes.

Since when did you get my login information?

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I catch anyone defiling any person of color, especially a beautiful black woman of color, you'll be begging for prison rape when I'm done with you. I'll come at you like a Tomahawk missile. You won't even see me, or feel anything until you wake up in a hospital bed. And that's if I have the energy left to haul your ass to the hospital. If not, you'll be munching asphalt until your dear fascist Trumposexual friends peel you off the street.

You have been warned.

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