Wise Man Says: red faces in Newcastle over black and white jibe

Considered a swag image with the burglar in B&W but that would have been a slur
Considered a swag image with the burglar in B&W but that would have been a slur*

It wasn’t clever. It wasn’t funny. And while its impact was some way short of the unrest provoked in Muslim countries by the Prophet Mohammed cartoons, it was – as it was meant to be – insulting. Sense of humour breakdown or justified indignation? Nic Wiseman, co-creator and co-editor of the long-gone SAFC fanzine It’s The Hope I Can’t Stand (ITHICS), describes the resulting furore and says his magazine would never have run an anti-Mag version of the offending cartoon …

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