I appreciate the contrast you are drawing with that comparison, it's a clever one.
It seems that we agree that, in isolation, the caricature of two bare-footed, slack-jawed, slovenly, drunk, ignorant, impoverished indigenous Australians is racist. At least neither of us can think of anything we would add to exacerbate it.
In my example of the hook-nosed Jew, the Jew is the hate-figure. In your counter-example Hitler is the hate figure.
Who is the hate figure in this cartoon? The racist generalisation of the indigenous man. Surely that's problematic?
You're aware that the cartoon was posted in a paper that has history of writing articles titled "Blacks find ways to get high", the cartoonist has a library of similar content where the hate-figure is indigenous, and that this particular cartoon was aimed (and succeeded comfortably) to shift attention from the case of indigenous children being tear gassed.
I'm comfortable that it is racist dross, I'm hoping that I've managed to at least raise that thought with you in a compelling way.
It seems that we agree that, in isolation, the caricature of two bare-footed, slack-jawed, slovenly, drunk, ignorant, impoverished indigenous Australians is racist. At least neither of us can think of anything we would add to exacerbate it.
In my example of the hook-nosed Jew, the Jew is the hate-figure. In your counter-example Hitler is the hate figure.
Who is the hate figure in this cartoon? The racist generalisation of the indigenous man. Surely that's problematic?
You're aware that the cartoon was posted in a paper that has history of writing articles titled "Blacks find ways to get high", the cartoonist has a library of similar content where the hate-figure is indigenous, and that this particular cartoon was aimed (and succeeded comfortably) to shift attention from the case of indigenous children being tear gassed.
I'm comfortable that it is racist dross, I'm hoping that I've managed to at least raise that thought with you in a compelling way.