I will not grant Johannes Leak what race theorist Gloria Wekker calls "white innocence." I will not grant him an exonerating reading: "satire, just a joke, why can't you take a joke?" I will not grant "white innocence" for this racist cartoon in The @Australian. 1/
I will not grant Johannes Leak "white innocence" for this previous racist cartoon in The @Australian. 2/
I will not grant The @Australian "white innocence" for this previous racist and anti-Black cartoon by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 3/
I will not grant The @Australian "white innocence" for this racist and anti-Black cartoon by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 4/
I will not grant The @Australian "white innocence" for this previous racist and anti-Black cartoon by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 5/
I will not grant The @Australian "white innocence" for this previous racist cartoon by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 6/
I will not grant The @Australian "white innocence" for this previous racist and anti-Arab cartoon by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 7/
I will not grant The @Australian "white innocence" for these previous racist, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic cartoons by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 8/
I will not grant @TheHeraldSun "white innocence" for this previous racist and anti-Black cartoon by Mark Knight. 9/
I will not grant The @Australian innocence for this previous homophobic and antisemitic cartoon of Nazi queers by Johannes Leak's late father, Bill Leak. 10/
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