Serge Chapleau Cartoon: Anti-Semitic?



Did a recent cartoon by La Presse cartoonist Serge Chapleau step over the line into an Anti-Semitic caricature? This writer thinks so. You can see a better capture of the cartoon as part of a slideshow here.

My gut reaction is that the above is pretty offensive. However, I'm never all that surprised when cartoonists asked to dance up to the edge of controversy every single day sometimes trip and fall over to the other side on occasion, any more than I'm surprised when a stand-up comedian will let loose with some misogynous joke in the midst of their act or some random, shouty radio personality uses an obtuse ethnic insult word in one diatribe out of 50,000. In other words, without a load of documented similarities suggesting a wider problem, I'm of the school that these are usually unintentional and severely unfortunate errors far more often than a startling revelation of the true nature of the artist in question. I'm not sure we have any room in our public discourse to process something along those lines, though.
 
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