No, its not dead.. but it does seem to be more frequently in the comments section* (if the censors don't get to them first!)
* i.e. not from virtue signalling, leftist, liberal media "elites"
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: In today’s issue of The Australian , John
: Spooner has an article titled: Why should
: a satirist like Bill Leak be forced to
: explain himself? My heading “Honesty is
: not dead”, was prompted by one of the reader
: comments, which I will come to soon, but
: first, I was reminded of one of the things
: that astounds me most in this case when
: Spooner wrote: I (Spooner) telephoned him
: (Leak) as soon as Race Discrimination
: Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane invited
: anyone offended by Leak’s “racism” over a
: cartoon portraying an Aboriginal father and
: son to formally complain to the Human Rights
: Commission. The Commissioner actually
: invited people to register offence! Is the
: HRC so short of issues that it has to resort
: to touting for business? Is it concerned
: that not enough people have considered the
: possibility of taking offence at Leak’s
: cartoon, and need to be prompted to do so?
:
: Whatever, I was so impressed by the
: clear-sighted honesty of the following
: comment by “Peter”, that I thought it should
: have attention drawn to it: I am Indigenous.
:
: I work extensively with youths in
: disadvantaged communities.
:
: In my opinion, the cartoon is not racist.
:
: The content is salient in our communities
: and is a constant source of internal
: discussion and debate. Objections to the
: drawing of Indigenous people as caricatures
: are - frankly - absurd. People of any and
: all races are caricatured by cartoonists.
: It's what they do . The logical
: extrapolation is that cartoonists and their
: cartoons will be prohibited because of the
: risk of offence. Or that cartoonists may
: only draw people of their own race. Facile.
:
: It is deeply irritating that so many people
: use my race to fortify their own political
: narratives. I am far from alone in objecting
: to being routinely condescended and
: infantilised as a helpless and hapless
: victim of a white society rigidly calibrated
: against me...as someone who needs wholly
: uninvited 'defending' by people who do so
: for their own moral vanity and whose
: understanding of our issues is purely in the
: theoretical. It is difficult enough to
: encourage our kids to take responsibility
: for themselves, to be accountable for their
: own outcomes and to claim pride for
: themselves without also battling the
: nihilistic dogma that world is malevolently,
: insurmountably against them.
:
: Racism comes in many forms. Unsolicited
: paternalism is one of them.
:
: I apologise that I'm somewhat repetitive
: with this overall message. However, I (and
: others) strongly believe that these views -
: which are more widely held in Indigenous
: communities than many people think -
: deserve reiteration. The fundamentals are
: non-partisan and apolitical. Being
: 'spoken-for' without permission or context
: as a political device, is unwelcome...and
: plain rude. The italics were not added by
: me; they were in the original article.
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