Racist? International outrage over Australian cartoon showing Indians eating solar panels

[RazorMC]

Can't be real Aussie garbage without a bit of racism and bigotry.

Modi is not a prophet, but is very respected by millions in India. Muslims in india insulted RSS men and so they insulted dudes like Allah and Mohammad. Agree this is juvenile, but both parties have to stop insulting each others respected public figures.


or draws cartoon of mohammad?

Have you been outside your village?

 

[Kompromat]

Keeping up with the great Australian tradition known as Racism in the rest of the world.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

Modi is not a prophet, but is very respected by millions in India. Muslims in india insulted RSS men and so they insulted dudes like Allah and Mohammad. Agree this is juvenile, but both parties have to stop insulting each others respected public figures.


or draws cartoon of mohammad?

12-year-old rapes minor, arrested - The Times of India

MEANWHILE IN INDIA.

 

[xyxmt]

or draws cartoon of mohammad?

why dont you try it in India

 

[Styx]

The cartoon by Bill Leak for The Australian

firstly, sorry but that made me LOL

secondly, I'm a "climate change denier" .. man made climate change is a load of bull and nobody should be worried about it

thirdly, if we're forced to act on it, we do it on our own terms, the US and the rest of the industrialized world can GO TO HELL

 

[Pindi Boy]

its the truth face it gentlemen

Just freedom of speech

 

[My-Analogous]

Racist? International outrage over Australian cartoon showing Indians eating solar panels
The cartoon was drawn by cartoonist Bill Leak for The Australian, and immediately faced backlash on social media
TNM Staff| Monday, December 14, 2015 - 13:46

The cartoon by Bill Leak for The Australian
A cartoon in an Australian paper that shows starving Indians trying to eat solar panels has received widespread criticism and been termed 'racist'.

The cartoon comes in the backdrop of the climate deal signed in Paris where India, which is the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has also promised to curb carbon emissions.

Read:Paris Climate Deal: Neither The Polar Bear Nor The Poor Are Served

The cartoon was drawn by cartoonist Bill Leak for The Australian, and immediately faced backlash on social media. People also took shots at him, claiming that a serious accident that he had after falling from a balcony a few years ago, has made him 'racist' ever since.

Speaking to The Guardian, Amanda Wise, an associate professor of sociology at Macquarie University said “This cartoon is unequivocally racist and draws on very base stereotypes of third world, underdeveloped people who don’t know what to do with technology. India is the technology centre of the world right now and has some of the most high-tech industries on the planet in that part of the world. The underlying message is that people in developing countries don’t need all these technologies to do with climate change – they need food."

“This only demonstrates the … provincial ignorance of both the journalist, cartoonist and publication...In truth, the bewildered farmers in Leak’s cartoon could probably teach him a thing or two about solar panels, while treating him to the indisputable pleasures of mango chutney,” Shoma Chaudhury, editor of Catch News told The Guardian.

A similiar incident had occured last year when The New York Times (NYT) published a racist cartoon showing India with a cow and knocking on the “Elite Space Club” soon after the country's successful mission to Mars. Indians, made sure that the publication got to see their wrath, with a steady influx of comments on social expressing their displeasure at the cartoon, and hordes of comments demanding an apology.

Here are some of the reactions that came in from Twitter on Bill Leak's cartoon.



David Pope@davpope
How backward is Aust #climate politics? Here, the absurd racist rubbish published by Murdoch's national newspaper

4:36 AM - 14 Dec 2015


Giovanni Torre@GiovanniTorre
The next time Bill Leak falls of a ladder an Indian brain surgeon will save his life...

1:24 PM - 14 Dec 2015


the thirst noël@scottsues
do you think Bill Leak could put together a solar panel

12:36 PM - 14 Dec 2015

lana del neigh@LanaDelNeigh_
Saddest thing is how racist lowlives like Bill Leak use "free speech" as defence, like they think they're doing powerful, subversive work.

10:57 AM - 14 Dec 2015


j.r. hennessy@jrhennessy
can someone give bill leak one of those adult colouring books to entertain himself until he learns not to be racist

10:43 AM - 14 Dec 2015

Mr Denmore@MrDenmore
Hey Bill Leak, some facts on India's renewable energy sector. They're a lot smarter than your cartoons are funny. http://mnre.gov.in/

5:57 AM - 14 Dec 2015


Saint Bhakthi✔@bhakthi
*Writes email to Bill Leak explaining that brown people aren't stupid. Deletes email. Does not-stupid things with life instead*

5:09 AM - 14 Dec 2015

DeeMadigan@deemadigan
There are some fine writers at the @australian but today’s tripe on Pell and the Bill Leak cartoon do it no favours.

4:45 AM - 14 Dec 2015

Lawfarismist@RanTLaw
Imagine the stuff that Bill Leak doesn’t publish!

4:26 AM - 14 Dec 2015

elbows out tweeting‏@illywhacker_
Bill Leak's Wikipedia updated.


Racist? International outrage over Australian cartoon showing Indians eating solar panels | The News Minute

Mentally sick. Chills guys there are so many idiots in this world

 

[Pindi Boy]

Modi is not a prophet, but is very respected by millions in India. Muslims in india insulted RSS men and so they insulted dudes like Allah and Mohammad. Agree this is juvenile, but both parties have to stop insulting each others respected public figures.


or draws cartoon of mohammad?

@Horus @waz @Slav Defence Plz take care of this morom

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

They are Dalits and other Indian poor, getting left behind as the government races foreword in technology. Has nothing to do with race or intelligence.

 

[Indian Jatt]

Just freedom of speech

thank you for the pictures, but they prove nothing but jealousy.......their is a difference between sarcasm and veracity.....thus my conclusion: please learn to see whats beyond your countries own achievements, even my country is far from perfection, we need more than a 2 decades to come close to what china is in present or 50-60 years where US is.....

 

[Harisudan]

Reported tbh, Pakistani forum

Reported??? When someone Mocks India, it is funny for you.. When we do the same to your country, it hurts right??
This phenomenon is called Butthurt.. Pls take early medications to avoid more frantic stages.. regards..

Truth hurts
*depicting tbh

ooh yeah,.. Like it hurts you now when your reported him right??
LMAO

 

[Indian Jatt]

Dont let us show YOUR true face.!!!

show me....you can only show me abrogating things about my country whereas i can show you the irrefutable facts that no one in the world could deny.....bring it on....

 

[wadi79]

For our Pakistani friends who find the cartoon funny - do remember your own reaction to the prophet cartoons. If you want others to respect your sentiments, you need to behave in a similar manner. I guess the 'do unto others...' teaching of Jesus has not really registered for some Pakistanis.

 

[Maira La]

Tells a lot about western countries's knowledge about India and steriotypes they make.

Can't really blame them, their ignorance is at par with their racism.

"Western countries knowledge about India"!?.....

They created India! Lol.

 

[madmusti]

Funny Indians, calling everyone racist who tells something real about their "Traditions & Lifeystyle"