Al Nisbet does it again
Just when you thought it wasnt possible to scrape the barrel anymore than he’s managed to over the years with his hateful stereotypes…
…he surprises by reminding us all that there’s a segment of NZ whose low horizon petty spite is an unmovable stain…
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…the greatest NZ cartoonist of all time, David Low, will be turning in his grave today.
‘Touche partner.’
“We are now running a baby factory”
Nessie is out of touch with the price of raising children and apparently parents in general.
Are the poor beyond criticism? Remember Monty Python’s mocking of poor large Catholic families – classic!
Are the poor beyond criticism?
The question I put to you, ‘Damocles’ is why you feel it necessary to put that question.
Criticising an individual for his/her actions or words is one thing.
But criticising an entire demographic group? There are words for that.
I think the reverse question is more important – why do you think that the poor must be beyond criticism?
Are you so blinded by politics that you think that no-one below a certain income level can do anything wrong?
Do you think they cannot laugh at themselves?
Most importantly – have you never laughed at Monty Python’s song “Every sperm is sacred” !!!
Nisbet isn’t doing anything brave creative or insightful with his lazy arsed stereotypes, and it’s a pattern that he doesn’t criticise the powerful who might hit back. He’s a shitty excuse for a cartoonist
wot ropata said…
If the role of cartoonists is to peer away the veneer of “Authority”; to question questionable social mores; to put privilege under a spotlight – then Nisbet fails on all counts.
Hence why I don’t use any of his material in my blogposts. He doesn’t
subvert prejudice, he reinforces it.
No doubt he has a steady fan-base amongst core National and ACT voters. That should speak volumes why his “cartoons” are propaganda for the privileged.
Who says that the role of cartoonists is to peel away the “veneer of authority”? I see them as highlighting the ironies and human foibles present in us all.
You want to harness them as propagandists in your ideological crusades – I shudder to think what humour would be like in your ideal world.
“Who says that the role of cartoonists is to peel away the “veneer of authority”? I see them as highlighting the ironies and human foibles present in us all.”
Who says? every political cartoonist worth their salt, that’s who…. This filth is racist profiling, pure and simple… The only real question here is why a regional newspaper finds it so necessary to attack the poor among us, and why they feel justified in doing so….
To champion the denigration of the poor, using racist memes is to display a desire for fascist, and totalitarian leadership of society…
Certainly, the need in any “democratic” society to ensure elected representatives act according to the principles of decency, and perform their duties with the greater good of society in mind is paramount.. Allowing race baiting to be glorified exposes a desire for the exact opposite, and displays nothing more than smug xenophobia…
Yep he reinforces both prejudice and ignorance, which is totally inexcusable.
He is a deliberate mischief maker who adds to the misery of the poor and deprived.
He is not humorous or even vaguely funny. I expect a chuckle or chortle from a cartoon, but this low-life exists to provide sniggers from dimwits like himself, he is a school bully sort of boy.
The poor have been deliberately demonised by the previous govt and Al is a grubby little part of this, and an intellectual whore.
Funny…I think the same thing every time I see a cartoon from Malcolm Evans regarding his depiction of Israel and his blanket treatment of Israelis as war criminals and murders of Palestinians.
Difference is, Nick, Malcolm Evans’ cartoons are well-targetted. As I pointed out, “the role of cartoonists is to peer away the veneer of “Authority””.
True however, would you say that of every Evans’ cartoon?
Lowbrow “humour” to portray supposedly “lowbrow people”—reveals who is truly vulgar.
Considering the prominent theme in these cartoons of disparaging certain groups in society as undesirables, Nisbet almost appears to replace Malan in David Low’s Evolution Backwards.
It’s the funny pages fighting back. Even some one like yourself gives Nesbit and Stuff way to much credit. They’re tone deaf. They actually don’t give a fuck. There just hitting the print money button in adverts over and over.
Spot on Sam – all about the money, too bad what people think. If it’s cheap and easy, they’ll use it.
No hard issues here please…
Outrage = clicks & eyeballs.
But it is not just the poor Nesbit is mocking, his crude caricatures are unmistakably Polynesian.
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