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Should The Guardian Have Apologised For Cartoon ?
The paper has apologised for a cartoon it published and removed it from its archive, after protests from jewish groups. They say the depiction of Richard Sharp who resigned as BBC Chair is anti semitic.
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05:16 Mon 01st May 2023
all that cartoonist's work is ugly, Rosetta; I don't like him at all.
However.
I didn't know Sharp was Jewish, and I wouldn't have been any the wiser if I'd seen the cartoon. According to the BBC, the cartoon showed him with "exaggerated feaatures". Well, that's what cartoonists do, all the time. I thought maybe he'd given the figure the sort of huge nose that used to appear in Nazi cartoons; but not at all here.
A far as I can see the only thing that might conceivably be seen as anti-Semitic is the notion that Jews make money and run things, though even that is a nod to success, not to prejudice. The cartoon is plainly anti-Boris but I can see nothing offensive at all in the depiction of Sharp. The Guardian should have stood its ground.
However.
I didn't know Sharp was Jewish, and I wouldn't have been any the wiser if I'd seen the cartoon. According to the BBC, the cartoon showed him with "exaggerated feaatures". Well, that's what cartoonists do, all the time. I thought maybe he'd given the figure the sort of huge nose that used to appear in Nazi cartoons; but not at all here.
A far as I can see the only thing that might conceivably be seen as anti-Semitic is the notion that Jews make money and run things, though even that is a nod to success, not to prejudice. The cartoon is plainly anti-Boris but I can see nothing offensive at all in the depiction of Sharp. The Guardian should have stood its ground.
Nothing to apologise for - political cartoons (especially) are all about 'exaggerated features', usually the more exaggerated the better, going right back to Rowlandson and Gilray.
Evidently, one of the complaints was about him carrying a squid, which is 'a common anti-semitic motif', but that's a new one on me.
Evidently, one of the complaints was about him carrying a squid, which is 'a common anti-semitic motif', but that's a new one on me.
Squid and Jews is an old trope, so I simply cannot believe the inclusion of a squid in the box was a coincidence.
I don’t understand why some on the left, like the paper with its foundations in slavery, have such an issue with Jews.
I kind of get that Abbott is anti-Jew, because she’s a racist anyway, but I don’t understand why Jews rile some on the left.
I don’t understand why some on the left, like the paper with its foundations in slavery, have such an issue with Jews.
I kind of get that Abbott is anti-Jew, because she’s a racist anyway, but I don’t understand why Jews rile some on the left.
Thank you all for your replies, they have enlightening.
I didn’t see any anti semitism but maybe I was a bit blind to it.
I wondered what the squid/octopus was there for, so to learn it is a known trope is disappointing.
Apparently the cartoonist and Sharp were at the same public school together, so perhaps it was a nickname?
I don’t think the actual drawing of Sharp character was anti semitic, I saw it before the complaints and didn’t see a big nosed jew.
The cartoonist has apologised so a bit of mea culpa
I didn’t see any anti semitism but maybe I was a bit blind to it.
I wondered what the squid/octopus was there for, so to learn it is a known trope is disappointing.
Apparently the cartoonist and Sharp were at the same public school together, so perhaps it was a nickname?
I don’t think the actual drawing of Sharp character was anti semitic, I saw it before the complaints and didn’t see a big nosed jew.
The cartoonist has apologised so a bit of mea culpa
"the cartoonist has apologised for it"?...so that makes everything allright?Corbyn has apologised for his anti-semitism,Abbott has apologised for her anti-semitism,the Guardian and Rowson have apologised for their anti-semitism.Perhaps if they werent anti-semitic in the first place they wouldnt have anything to apologise for.
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