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08-07-2016, 06:48 AM
#Indige**usDads trends in Australia in powerful response to 'racist' cartoon
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Loving, supportive and wise. Indige**us fathers are all those things, and more.
That's the message of the hashtag #Indige**usDads, which has been trending on Australian Twitter in the wake of an offensive cartoon published Thursday in The Australian newspaper.
SEE ALSO: How images like #DonDaleKids let us 'perform' our shock and outrage (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/don-dale-viral-image/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The images of Aboriginal Australian fathers are a powerful rejection of the picture created by cartoonist Bill Leak, who was immediately accused (http://mashable.com/2016/08/03/racist-cartoon-in-australian-paper/) of being racist and indulging in stereotypes. Accusations that have been levelled at Leak before.
On the heels of the Don Dale revelations (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/don-dale-viral-image/), where the severe mistreatment of young people in a largely Indige**us juvenile detention centre in Darwin were revealed to a horrified public, the cartoon implies parental neglect is to blame for their incarceration.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/06/indige**us-dads-trends-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Loving, supportive and wise. Indige**us fathers are all those things, and more.
That's the message of the hashtag #Indige**usDads, which has been trending on Australian Twitter in the wake of an offensive cartoon published Thursday in The Australian newspaper.
SEE ALSO: How images like #DonDaleKids let us 'perform' our shock and outrage (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/don-dale-viral-image/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
The images of Aboriginal Australian fathers are a powerful rejection of the picture created by cartoonist Bill Leak, who was immediately accused (http://mashable.com/2016/08/03/racist-cartoon-in-australian-paper/) of being racist and indulging in stereotypes. Accusations that have been levelled at Leak before.
On the heels of the Don Dale revelations (http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/don-dale-viral-image/), where the severe mistreatment of young people in a largely Indige**us juvenile detention centre in Darwin were revealed to a horrified public, the cartoon implies parental neglect is to blame for their incarceration.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/06/indige**us-dads-trends-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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