# Is this cartoon racist (Tennis).

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**Created:** [September 12, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-cartoon-racist-tennis/821230 "2018-09-12T17:02:34Z")\
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> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
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> Is it possible to draw a caricature of a woman with Williams’ features that isn’t racist? If so, how?

Here’s how I answered when you asked that same question in the US Open thread:

> [@2018 U.S. Open (tennis)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-u-s-open-tennis/820934/164):
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> No. You cannot draw caricatures of nonwhite people without it coming across very badly. Which is actually, surprise surprise, a double standard I agree with. Although maybe we should dispense with the double standard by creating a new social norm that caricature is generally seen as bad form, even with white people as subjects.
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> It’s an appealing art form in some ways, and one that tells us something about human perception and psychology. But on the whole, it’s just not worth it.

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