OPINION
If a shitty, woke, “cartoonist” boycotts an award they’re never going to win anyway, does anyone even notice?
Over the last few days, a bunch of lefty cartoonists have made a big song and dance of boycotting the Walkleys. Did you hear them? They’re boycotting! That’s right, they’re boycotting! Hello, they’re boycotting… why aren’t any of you listening to them? Do they have to stamp their feet louder?
Of course, most Australians reading the roster of boycotters could be excused for asking, “Who?”
But one cartoonist almost all Australians know and love is Michael Leunig. He’s here to tell the activists they’re pissy little babies.
Many of the nation’s cartoonists have joined together in protest because of the award’s sponsorship deal with petroleum company Ampol and also “racist” comments made by the event’s founder, Sir William Walkley in a Sydney Morning Herald newspaper column written 62 years ago.
Leunig, who has worked for Nine Entertainment’s Age newspaper for more than 50 years, labelled the cartoonists who have boycotted the event as “tame” and described it as “activist conformity”.
“I thought cartoonists were free thinkers by their nature and by their work, one would hope and not a tribe who act in unison,” he said.
He clearly hasn’t read The Age or The Guardian lately. These woke twats are groupthinkers to a they/them.
Or maybe he has been reading.
“These cartoonists are fairly tame and not seriously controversial in their work – such is the subdued nature of contemporary cartooning.
“Perhaps these protesting cartoonists are needing to do something a bit edgy and exciting to repair their credentials and reputations as colourful creative outlaws of bold conscience.”
Ha, ha… “colourful creative outlaws of bold conscience”? This lot?
The cartoonists include The Australian Financial Review’s David Rowe, The Age’s Matt Golding, The Guardian’s First Dog on the Moon, The Mercury’s Chris Downes, and Fiona Katauskas, Glen Le Lievre, David Blumenstein and Andrew Weldon.
No, I haven’t heard of any of them, either — apart from First Dog on the Moon. And that, only because he’s a case study in gutless conformity. This is the guy, after all, who admitted that he wouldn’t do cartoons of Muslims because he was afraid of being killed — and in the next breath screeched that anyone who criticised Muslims is “racist”. You couldn’t make these cretins up if you tried.
Legendary political correspondent Laurie Oakes and eight-time Walkley winner Hedley Thomas have been among those in the journalism industry to criticise the stance by the cartoonists.
Thomas, The Australian’s national chief correspondent, urged his colleagues to stand up for the Awards and prevent journalism from being “further undermined by kneejerk activism”.
The Australian’s cartoonist John Spooner – who has won multiple Walkley Awards and has been cartooning for nearly 50 years – also criticised the boycott and said the cartoonists’ actions were similar to “activists gluing their hands to the road”.
“There’s something incredibly stupid about what they are doing,” he said […]
Cartoonists including the Herald Sun’s Mark Knight, The Australian’s Johannes Leak and The Daily Telegraph’s Warren Brown criticised the boycott by the group of cartoonists.
No surprises that this pathetic exercise in attention-seeking is being led by the queen of un-funny wokeness.
The Australian Cartoonists Association, which is led by The Sydney Morning Herald and Age cartoonist Cathy Wilcox, and Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope wrote a letter to the Walkley Foundation last week raising their concerns about the Ampol sponsorship.
The Australian
And nobody cared.
Here’s a better idea: why don’t they glue their hands to their drawing tablets?
They’ll get the clout from the idiots in the climate peanut gallery, and we won’t have to put up with their pathetic “cartoons”.