Reply to: Serena Williams

[Yorkie62]

It's like a driver being given a speeding ticket and then complaining that though they were speeding, other speeding drivers weren't being given tickets.

If you broke the rules and were penalised for it, woman up and take it like a woman!

Yes On your knees B*tch

Seriously, the whole outrage thing is a brilliant distraction from the fact that her coach was coaching her from the players box, the coach has actually admitted to this, which is cheating and against the rules. So, Serena Williams and her coach were caught cheating and she cries victimisation, in one form or another, to distract from the original breach of the rules. More to the point we all fall for it because we are all talking about how, or not, Serena is the victim, and not why she was docked a point originally.

[Scotslaw]

Because she claims men are not penalised. i.e. it wasn't wrong how she was penalised, BUT men seem to get away with it.

It's like a driver being given a speeding ticket and then complaining that though they were speeding, other speeding drivers weren't being given tickets.

If you broke the rules and were penalised for it, woman up and take it like a woman!

[vetran]

have you never heard of the gringo card?

he's Greek?

[cloudy]

eh?

have you never heard of the gringo card?

[Dark Black]

said while playing the gringo card ..

eh?

[TwoWolves]

On the one hand this seems pure caricature which isn't racist. On the other people say this exact style was widely used for racist purposes and now, like calling someone the N-word, nobody can claim they don't know it will be taken that way. It mostly seems OK to me.

However this is Naomi Osaka

She is a black/japanese woman with skin nearly as dark as Serena's, and brown frizzy hair. Why is she portrayed as a skinny, white woman with a blonde ponytail?

I actually watched the match. She bleached her hair:



It was awful behaviour, Williams stole her victory moment. She should be banned (for a while).

[cloudy]

On the one hand this seems pure caricature which isn't racist. On the other people say this exact style was widely used for racist purposes and now, like calling someone the N-word, nobody can claim they don't know it will be taken that way. It mostly seems OK to me.

However this is Naomi Osaka


She is a black/japanese woman with skin nearly as dark as Serena's, and brown frizzy hair. Why is she portrayed as a skinny, white woman with a blonde ponytail?

Monkeying this thread up son.

Perspective and context... Is there a difference between me saying you look like a Monkey and saying that Gareth Bale looks like one? What if I am black myself?

Is there a difference between me joking about the power of the tax man with my wife and me sharing jokes about that topic in the Tax Loans thread on this very site.

Caricatures can be very racist.

[cloudy]

Quite. How is it any different from the political cartoons, the one of Boris Johnson in today's Independent, for example?

https://www.independent.co.uk/

context. focusing solely on the odd example would have kept us on the frozen tundra. patterns dear boy, patterns....

[cloudy]

Massive hissy fit..

And then to blame it on sexism. I was expecting her to play the race card next.

She's supposed to be a professional sports-person. Pathetic.

said while playing the gringo card ..

[cloudy]

How do you know they're representing the match against Ms Osaka in the caricature?

The Umpire for the match against Osaka wasn't white either, yet there in the cartoon he's as white as the blonde girl.

I don't think they meant to represent A match.

[Zigenare]

On the one hand this seems pure caricature which isn't racist. On the other people say this exact style was widely used for racist purposes and now, like calling someone the N-word, nobody can claim they don't know it will be taken that way. It mostly seems OK to me.

However this is Naomi Osaka


She is a black/japanese woman with skin nearly as dark as Serena's, and brown frizzy hair. Why is she portrayed as a skinny, white woman with a blonde ponytail?

How do you know they're representing the match against Ms Osaka in the caricature?

The Umpire for the match against Osaka wasn't white either, yet there in the cartoon he's as white as the blonde girl.

[d000hg]

On the one hand this seems pure caricature which isn't racist. On the other people say this exact style was widely used for racist purposes and now, like calling someone the N-word, nobody can claim they don't know it will be taken that way. It mostly seems OK to me.

However this is Naomi Osaka


She is a black/japanese woman with skin nearly as dark as Serena's, and brown frizzy hair. Why is she portrayed as a skinny, white woman with a blonde ponytail?

[Jog On]

Quite. How is it any different from the stuff on here for example?

https://www.independent.co.uk/#gallery

Doesn't matter - it's all about the approval points.

[xoggoth]

It's a cartoon doing what a cartoon does; exaggerating somebody's physical features. It's not supposed to be flattering regardless of the colour of the subject.

Quite. How is it any different from the political cartoons, the one of Boris Johnson in today's Independent, for example?

https://www.independent.co.uk/

[Jog On]

This cartoon is currently being branded as being racist. Discuss

if I was a virtue signalling SJW I wouldn't let that one pass without making as much out of it as I possibly could.