Don
Well I think we’ll just need to disagree about that one!
Racist! Really?
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Soldato
Even though she actually has bleach blonde hair?
Soldato
The perpetually offended don't allow facts to get in the way of a good whinge.
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It doesn’t look great tbh and and I am not usually sensitive about these things.
Soldato
I know... Not really sure why I'm bothering really. It's like debating with stig in the F1 thread, and I've already learned it's best to just sit back and enjoy the show there.
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Who is the white women in the cartoon anyway?
Not a white woman according to the people that will even refuse to believe their eyes as long as it means this illustration isn't seen as culturally rather insensitive.
It's all got very odd in here.
Well then why isn’t her skin colour the same tone as the umpires? It clearly isn’t. I agree with you that Osaka’s skin colour appears lighter but I’m fairly certain that’s because of the contrast to background colours, however her skin colour is fairly similar to serenas in actuality.
Regardless of that though her skin in the cartoon is clearly darker than the umpires.
Do you not possibly think that you’re looking for something rather than looking at it?
Soldato
Kinda like how you refuse to believe the posts showing that she isn't white and that she actually has blonde hair in real life?
Definitely odd.
The hair is irrelevant (but still completely wrong if it was meant to be osaka).
Grabbing a swatch of the darkest shaded bit of skin on one and comparing it to the lightest shaded bit of the other is a meaningless comparison
Either the artist is dreadful/colourblind or he intentionally drew the opponent as a white blonde woman.
I'm honestly flummoxed that this is even up for debate.
Don
So what’s with the albino umpire 
Caporegime
I dunnooooo are we reading too much into this?
Is the Simpsons Asian? I mean they are yellow.
I thought it's just about Serena being a bad loser.
Is the Simpsons Asian? I mean they are yellow.
I thought it's just about Serena being a bad loser.
Soldato
Ok... If it's irrelevant, why have you mentioned it so many times?
He picked out three shades on Serena, not just the darkest one.
The Osaka drawing is tiny and has barely any paint on it. The only bit that's lighter is a small area by her chin.
You do realise that it isn't meant to be an accurate portrait. It's a cartoon.
Honestly, you really are reaching here.
Yes
I don't even think he was being intentionally racist. He has made some pretty insensitive choices in the illustration and done a poor job of the caricature though, which has made it look a little dodgy.
Soldato
It is, and she is!
I dont see this a case of intentional racism, more a case of the artist being intentionally controversial. He's done his job, I bet this has brought a lot of attention and probably money to the paper.
I dont see the problem, Unfortunately modern day culture is incredibly sensitive and there is a small but ever increasing number of very vocal and perpetually triggered people. It used to bug me but more often than not i just find it amusing these days.
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The more sensitive of you lot had better not read some of the pre 1960's Rupert Bear children's annuals 
The fabulous Alfred Bestall's illustration and text will give you palpitations. Anyway, you seem to have critiqued the Williams cartoon to the nth degree, here's another of the same cartoonist's work to dismember and cogitate upon.
The fabulous Alfred Bestall's illustration and text will give you palpitations. Anyway, you seem to have critiqued the Williams cartoon to the nth degree, here's another of the same cartoonist's work to dismember and cogitate upon.
I am not reaching for anything, other than reality.
I just refuse to be told by GD that the cartoon woman here:
Is supposed to be a depiction of this woman:
It is absurd.
The artist drew a white woman with long straight fully blonde hair. Whether this was done intentionally based on some sort of racist viewpoint, who knows, I don't think it was, but it is a drawing of a white woman with long straight fully blonde hair and is barely even close to being a drawing of Osaka.