Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
You seem to be very confused on this. Was the cartoon 'grossly clumsy', was it 'openly racist' or was it 'at the very least.... guilty of lacking any awareness of racial sensitivities'? It can't be all those things at once as you claim. In fact it is none of those things. It is a crude and funny depiction of a couple of prime bullies on the government front bench!

I am no fan of the Guardian's political agenda but they have (more in the past than now) given a platform to satirists like Steve Bell alongside some excellent journalists and fewer excellent commentators. My problem with the Guardian and Steve Bell is not his cartoons - but the growing (and cowardly) censorship of his work and recently the decision to end his contract. The other Guardian cartoonists are nowhere near his standard.
Fair point. I was trying to suggest that it can be interpreted in different ways and it may just have been clumsily so but in my opinion it is a racist cartoon, . It's considered "okay" because it's in a "liberal" newspaper. Imagine that cartoon in the daily mail about a Labour politician. Twitter would explode. The rage would shake every coffee cup in Pontcanna.