Go, Read: A Response To Trolling On The Serena Williams Cartoon

I like this response to a piece of trollage about the recent Serena Williams cartoon. Cartooning and caricature are super-hard. If you don't have the skills or a solution does not present itself to you to make a cartoon without plugging into elements of deeply offensive cultural history in a nasty way that swamps any point being made, maybe don't do the fucking cartoon. That's true of just about every expression in every art form where there are easy shortcuts or flat-out modes that bring with them elements that inform the final effort. It's also always good to question why this approach works within the statement you're making, if there's an alignment there.

It's just a deeply unfortunate cartoon, at best, and the newspaper crying about the PC police because people are responding negatively to something like this can go fuck itself. How we got to the point where the enjoyment of free expression came with a feeling of entitlement towards the results of that expression that encompasses other people's reactions to it, I don't know.

Update: Really good Rebecca Wanzo piece here.

 
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