Guardian ties itse!f in knots over antisemitic cartoon
Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 11:19 am
Always fun to watch Wikipedia and Jimmy Wales' favourite and perhaps even only "reliable source" so perfectly mirror each other.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... tin-rowson
Busted for publishing a cartoon with anti-Semitic tropes.
Their explanations are incredible, the apologies are insincere and transparently being done for political reasons, the left still struggling to convince people not already firmly in the left wing that they're not closet antisemites.
It's beyond obvious that at the very least, subconscious bias is the reason this happened. So obvious the Guardian at least devotes a line to the possibility. No more than that though. Don't want to commit themselves to anything that could prove difficult, if not impossible, like Wikipedia being seen as we!coming to women. Or Jews.
It will happen again in some form, even if they manage to implement a process that says cartoons targeting alleged crony capitalism get a more detailed check for not so hidden meaning.
It's also beyond obvious nothing will actually change (other than the Guardian getting better at hiding their subconscious biases rather than addressing them) since it is entirely in the gift of The Guardian to decide for themselves how and when they have failed and when apologies and reflections are due. Not exactly a recipe for change in people with clear conscious biases and unresolved unconscious biases.
Hilarious that the Guardian thinks it entirely unimportant, a complete coincidence, that the cartoonist and former BBC Chairman went to the same school. I guess the crony capitalist network isn't half as powerful a draw as the cu!t of blaming others for your own failings, the Jews being a prime target. Unconscious bias at work, right there in their apology!
Wikipedia's tendency toward Jew tagging will have course been an additional way the cartoonist and Guardian editors will have subconsciously already known that Sharp was a Jew, and presumably what they mean when they say that this little known piece of information was otherwise "knowable".
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... tin-rowson
Busted for publishing a cartoon with anti-Semitic tropes.
Their explanations are incredible, the apologies are insincere and transparently being done for political reasons, the left still struggling to convince people not already firmly in the left wing that they're not closet antisemites.
It's beyond obvious that at the very least, subconscious bias is the reason this happened. So obvious the Guardian at least devotes a line to the possibility. No more than that though. Don't want to commit themselves to anything that could prove difficult, if not impossible, like Wikipedia being seen as we!coming to women. Or Jews.
It will happen again in some form, even if they manage to implement a process that says cartoons targeting alleged crony capitalism get a more detailed check for not so hidden meaning.
It's also beyond obvious nothing will actually change (other than the Guardian getting better at hiding their subconscious biases rather than addressing them) since it is entirely in the gift of The Guardian to decide for themselves how and when they have failed and when apologies and reflections are due. Not exactly a recipe for change in people with clear conscious biases and unresolved unconscious biases.
Hilarious that the Guardian thinks it entirely unimportant, a complete coincidence, that the cartoonist and former BBC Chairman went to the same school. I guess the crony capitalist network isn't half as powerful a draw as the cu!t of blaming others for your own failings, the Jews being a prime target. Unconscious bias at work, right there in their apology!
Wikipedia's tendency toward Jew tagging will have course been an additional way the cartoonist and Guardian editors will have subconsciously already known that Sharp was a Jew, and presumably what they mean when they say that this little known piece of information was otherwise "knowable".