Perhaps Asians are still perceived as outsiders and foreigners in a way that Hispanics and African Americans are not, says Evelyn Hsu, former president of the Asian American Journalists Association and director of Poynter's high school journalism program. This is a joke he has used at least six times for NRO in the last 24 months to comment on everything from China's WTO aspirations to its alleged espionage of nuclear secrets. That does not mean, however, that Goldberg has a grudge against the Chinese, he tells Poynter.org. The art form requires the reliance on stereotype oftentimes to make the message quickly available to readers. However, Salem says, one of the weaknesses of stereotyping is that it often makes people so angry that the point of the cartoon gets lost.
Cartoonists are the keepers and creators of the stereotypes.
That's what we do, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. Oliphant seemed to agree with that sentiment in a 1997 interview with Harry Katz. Stereotypes create a minefield not only for cartoonists, but also for editors. For Woods, the use of negative stereotype is never appropriate. You are trading on something that has been used in our history as tools of oppression and genocide.