{"id":5193,"date":"2016-08-04T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/04\/twitter-reacts-to-racist-political-cartoon-in-australian-newspaper\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:33:37","slug":"twitter-reacts-to-racist-political-cartoon-in-australian-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/04\/twitter-reacts-to-racist-political-cartoon-in-australian-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter reacts to &#039;racist&#039; political cartoon in Australian newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f166455%2f26d70a7a4e0d45e0816ae2375f74d366\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/Y2M7PFGPNmqBNrsjkECL8hsasaE=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F166455%2F26d70a7a4e0d45e0816ae2375f74d366.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Twitter+reacts+to+%27racist%27+political+cartoon+in+Australian+newspaper&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F03%2Fracist-cartoon-in-australian-paper%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F08%2F03%2Fracist-cartoon-in-australian-paper%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The people of Australia had a collective conniption recently when a <em>Vanity Fair <\/em>writer called the country \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/06\/margot-robbie-profile-australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">America 50 years ago<\/a>.\u201d But after the recent allegations of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/25\/juveniles-tear-gassed-australian-prison\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">torture and abuse<\/a> levelled at the Northern Territory government, and after today&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/newmatilda.com\/2016\/08\/04\/artistic-arse-the-great-racist-works-of-cartoonist-bill-leak\/\">racist<\/a>&#8221; political cartoon in one of the nation&#8217;s biggest newspapers \u2014 people could be forgiven for thinking twice about whether that statement has more than a little legitimacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/02\/black-lives-matter-movement-coalition-policy-goals\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Black Lives Matter reveals a six-point plan to combat systemic racism<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After images and video emerged showing the horrible treatment of Indigenous children at the hands of Don Dale juvenile facility staff, the Australian media has been in a frenzy, with most news outlets expressing <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/28\/don-dale-viral-image\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">shock and outrage<\/a>. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/\"><em>The Australian<\/em><\/a> newspaper\u2019s newest political cartoon has taken aim at the extremely marginalised community. Again. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/03\/racist-cartoon-in-australian-paper\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/political-cartoon\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Political Cartoon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/racism\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Racism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/indigenous\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Indigenous<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/jn1wZ3gLaZ8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Australia had a collective conniption recently when a Vanity Fair writer called the country \u201cAmerica 50 years ago.\u201d But after the recent allegations of torture and abuse levelled at the Northern Territory government, and after today&#8217;s &#8220;racist&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/04\/twitter-reacts-to-racist-political-cartoon-in-australian-newspaper\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}