Image copyright Reuters Image caption Serena Williams, pictured after shedding to Naomi Osaka through the US Open, used to be the topic of a newspaper cool animated film widely criticised as racist and sexist
An Australian newspaper which found itself at the centre of a race row over its cartoonist’s depiction of Serena Williams has doubled down on its give a boost to for the artist.
The Herald Solar has hit out at individuals who criticised Mark Knight’s drawing, which displays Williams leaping over a damaged racquet subsequent to a baby’s dummy.
Critics said the caricature used racist and sexist stereotypes.
But that did not forestall the newspaper reprinting the image on its entrance web page.
Underneath the headline “Welcome to PC world”, the newspaper wrote: “If the self-appointed censors of Mark Knight get their means on his Serena Williams cool animated film, our new politically proper lifestyles might be very boring indeed”.
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Knight’s unique drawing, revealed within the Herald Solar on Monday, referenced Williams’s outburst through the US Open final at the weekend, appearing the umpire asking Japan’s Naomi Osaka: “Can You simply permit her win?”
It led folks, together with creator J. K. Rowling, to accuse the newspaper of racism.
“Neatly done on lowering one among the best sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop,” Rowling wrote on Twitter.
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Some also mentioned Knight had “whitewashed” Osaka, whose father is Haitian and mother Eastern. She was drawn as a white lady with blonde hair.
The cartoonist denied it used to be racist, announcing he had meant to depict only the tennis player’s “negative behaviour”.
Herald Solar editor Damon Johnston also jumped to Knight’s defence, announcing in a tweet that the cool animated film “rightly mocks bad behaviour by way of a tennis legend… Mark has the entire support of everyone”.
Symbol copyright Mark Knight/AFP Image caption Mark Knight’s authentic cool animated film sparked outrage
He later shared a picture of the front page, which integrated a series of alternative cartoons the newspaper used to be suggesting may offend the “self-appointed sensors”.
It once again provoked a reaction on social media – with many pointing to the irony of the Bring In Sun having its personal “tantrum”.
“I Am in truth embarrassed for you,” Julie Stoddart mentioned in a tweet, at the same time as Ken McAlpine tweeted: “Negative little newspaper needs a hug.”
Others, however, sponsored the newspaper’s stance.
“this will trigger the eternally angry,” tweeted @RohanCT.
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Some Other Twitter consumer, Paul Pellen, added: “Outrage for the sake of shock! Lefties palms must be bleeding! @Knightcartoons, stay it up. There are nonetheless a few of us who enjoy humour.”
Knight’s social media bills, in the meantime, have disappeared.
The cartoonist said on Tuesday that “the world has simply long past crazy”, telling the Australian Broadcasting Organisation it “was near to Serena at the day having a tantrum”.
Knight additionally rejected a proposal that he wouldn’t draw an analogous image of a person. As proof, he tweeted his contemporary caricature of tennis player Nick Kyrgios.
