Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan One example: I have a Bugs Bunny cartoon that was made during WWII that is shockingly offensive in the way it portrays Japanese people. It's not one that will ever return to regular TV broadcast, and it was removed from future editions of the WB collection. When you view it as a propaganda film, and understand the context in the time it was set, you can understand how this short would get produced -- it probably had people cheering in theaters at the time, I can only imagine. And while it isn't something I'd let kids watch on their own, it's a great example of something that people do -- mock and dehumanize an enemy as a way of expressing outrage, frustration, as a propaganda tool, without having the perspective to realize that perhaps Japanese Americans might be hurt after the war by these sorts of images. These are things that should be discussed and considered.
Originally Posted By gaston lives Shows like North and South, Gone with the wind, SotS, whatever they are...why shoudl the NOT be shown? What about movies liek White Men Can't Jump? Is that any less offensive? You cant' deny that these things happened, they are historical. You cant' hide from it, if anything, it's good to show it to show where the country has evolved to and from where it came. You cnat' hide your past.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs <<gaston lives: You can't hide your past.>> I knew that video of "LPers Gone Wild" would surface around the 'Net...
