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.
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 newspaper has since apologised for running the cartoon. Picture: The West Australian“It’s no use hiding, that abo will smell us out quicker than a bloodhound,” a character says in the comic.
“I’m literally devastated this has been printed and our children have access to this. Honestly wish I was surprised though!!” Just wondering how many people were involved in the chain of decision making, to allow this cartoon to be printed in the
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