The West Australian blasted over racist Indigenous cartoon
The West Australian newspaper is copping backlash after publishing a cartoon that refers to an Indigenous character using an offensive racial slur and compares them to a dog.
The Modesty Blaise comic, published yesterday, shows a characters discussing an Indigenous tracker who is trying to find them.
One character says they are being chased by “four men, all armed ... and an Aborigine” — a term some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people find offensive.
The characters go on to describe the Indigenous character as an “abo tracker”.
“It’s no use hiding, that abo will smell us out quicker than a bloodhound,” a character says in the comic.
https://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/the-west-australian-blasted-over-racist-indigenous-cartoon/news-story/7525be63ef87160920c1fdfc5c997312