Toronto Sun Under Fire For Racist Olivia Chow Cartoon

Toronto Sun Publishes Incredibly Racist Olivia Chow Cartoon
TORONTO, ON - OCTOBER 20: Olivia Chow scrums with media after the debate. Big Ideas mayoral debate hosted by Star columnist Christopher Hume and MPI's executive director Jamison Steeve at the Rotman School of Management's Desautels Hall at University of Toronto. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON - OCTOBER 20: Olivia Chow scrums with media after the debate. Big Ideas mayoral debate hosted by Star columnist Christopher Hume and MPI's executive director Jamison Steeve at the Rotman School of Management's Desautels Hall at University of Toronto. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

The Toronto Sun is facing intense scrutiny over an editorial cartoon of mayoral candidate Olivia Chow published Sunday, just one day before the city's election.

The cartoon, created by the Sun's Andy Donato, draws Mao with slanted eyes, glasses, delivering laundry and literally stepping on the coattails of a jacket belonging to her late husband Jack Layton.

Chow expressed her outrage in an interview with CP24 Sunday night, calling the cartoon "outrageous," "racist" and "sexist."

β€œIt is disgusting," she said. "Because I am Chinese-Canadian, I must be a communist and have slanted eyes and glasses ... and since I am a woman, I must be inferior and therefore not good enough for the job of the mayor so I must rely on my deceased husband so it is both racist and sexist."

β€œIt goes to prove that we need to stand firm against racism because it still exists," Chow added.

Other readers and journalists took to Twitter to slam the cartoon for its offensive nature:

Wow, blatant, mean and demeaning racism from @TheTorontoSun at the expense of Olivia Chow and Jack Layton! Shame on you!!!

β€” MsCL (@Foodiemental) October 27, 2014

The Huffington Post has reached out to the Toronto Sun and will update this post if and when the paper responds.

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