@davewalker

But the reason "immigrants" are being specifically targeted is the result of years of tories treating immigrants as an invading threat, demonising people arriving in "small boats" using race baiting to cover their own govt corruption, using "Rwanda deportation" as a cure all to society's problems - thus inferring immigrants are to blame for everything.

This is on Sunak, Johnson, Anderson, Patel, Braverman, Rees Mogg etc & Farage-
And the RW Press who support them
#UKRiots #UK

@davewalker Your excellent work reminds me of another artist / cartoonist who used to have a regular column (many years ago) in the Observer Magazine, I think, called 'the elements of wisdom' - but I can't remember his name... Can anybody else?

#cartoons #drawing #art #media

@davewalker

What causes racist hate is the media. The news media, and the entertainment media, and the politicians who spew the vitriol.

Racism is learned behavior.

@davewalker I am heartened by the anti-far-right demonstrations in UK cities which prevented another night of far-right thuggery.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/thousands-of-anti-racism-protesters-take-to-streets-to-counter-far-right-rallies

@davewalker

The right just needs a boogeyman to rile people up about, and immigrants are that boogeyman.

@davewalker

While all that is true I think we (& media, politicians) miss the underlying cause and amplifier of anti-immigrant views which is wealth-power.

The right wing press, largely owned by wealthy tax avoiders who live *overseas* is one. They, other oligarchs and corporations wield power to corrupt and influence in our social and political system.

Remove the influence of money powered #media, #lobbying and #advertising, and we can begin to heal.

Without that it is a losing battle.

@davewalker People don't live in fear because of their skin color, they live in fear because of poverty, ideology, instability. welcoming them is a nice thing to do. But it is not a solution. The solution is to remove the fear they are fleeing from.

Oversimplifying a complex problem and then throwing a simple solution to it never works. and the opposite of a radical, oversimplified idea (closing borders) is still a radical oversimplified idea.

@davewalker

A case of Face eating Leopards?

Tweet by Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) dated August 5, 2024:

"This is the first time in my life I'm getting serious racist insults [f]or being brown from white people in the UK.

Not a good look."

@davewalker , "People fleeing horrific situations that you and I likely complicitly contributed towards"*

If we don't like people fleeing hells we helped create, we should stop creating them. The system created these situations long before I was born, so best I can do is understand I born in a country reaping the rewards of expanding imperialism and welcome people whom have been victims of that system, sharing what I have through luck benefited from. Fuck this whole zero sum ideology.

@davewalker
Great comic.

Quite different, but my brain still connected it with this one I saw yesterday by @sophielabelle