Re: The witch hunters reach fraudian towers Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on April 29, 2023, 9:05 pm, in reply to "Re: The witch hunters reach fraudian towers"
When does a cartoon attacking an individual jewish person become an attack on all jewish people and therefore antisemitic? Well, quite. From Rowson's blog: Satirists, even though largely licenced to speak the unspeakable in liberal democracies, are no more immune to ####ing things up than anyone else, which is what I did here. ......... For this I apologise, though I’m not going to repeat the current formulation by saying I’m sorry if people were upset, which is always code for “I’ve done nothing wrong, you’re just oversensitive”. This is on me, even if accidentally or, more precisely, thoughtlessly. ......... So by any definition, most of all my own, the cartoon was a failure and on many levels: I offended the wrong people. .......... Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. To work effectively, cartoons almost more than any other part of journalism require eternal vigilance, against unconscious bias as well as things that should be obvious and in this case, unforgivably, I didnt even think about. There are sensitivities it is our obligation to respect in order to achieve our satirical purposes. Rest here: https://www.martinrowson.com/ Woke satire. How oxymoronic.
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