Thanks, gocomics.org
Day: January 30, 2020
A perfect Trump souvenir
A perfect reminder of how this cretin can despoil anything. Even a simple round of golf is poisoned by his presence, his politics, the stench of greed and grasping ideology.
Honesty is (sometimes) the best policy
Guess who AP cropped out of this photo when they published it?
Press conference in Davos of prominent young climate activists
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When Vanessa Nakate addressed a tweet to the Associated Press asking why she had been cropped out of a photo, it was out of curiosity. She didn’t think her question would ignite a firestorm of criticism and spark an international conversation on erasure and diversity within the environmental movement.
“When I saw the photo, I only saw part of my jacket. I was not on the list of participants. None of my comments from the press conference were included,” she said. “It was like I wasn’t even there.”
The 23-year-old Ugandan activist had appeared at a joint press conference in Davos with other prominent climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.
But when the news agency published a picture of the event, Nakate had been cut from the image – which showed only the four white activists.
AP responded with the standard trick bag of excuses for their racist screwup. Of course.