Zapiro Makes Case For Latest Cartoon

The South Africa-based cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro makes the case on video for the latest of his implied-rape cartoons and then his work generally, and relationship to President Jacob Zuma specifically. I'm not certain how to take his defense against critics that the imagery used is too strong and upsetting, which is basically to point out that since Justice isn't a real lady it's symbolic, not literal. I don't think the cartoon needs defending along those lines, but if it did that's not the defense I'd make -- he's clearly generating a lot of oomph in those cartoons out of teasing that symbolism towards the literal.
 
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