I'm following Homer Simpson's WWII by day threads and within the last month saw a racist joke reprinted in a 1944 N.Y. Times story about the murder of a black man. Picket the Times?
In Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant has a line, "Say that's pretty white of Mr. Peabody, isn't it?" (Mr. Peabody was thinking about donating a million dollars to the museum.) So, do we denounce Cary Grant as racist?
In Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World there is a scene where the treasure hunters run a black couple off the road and they are depicted very stereotypically, in a way that would be considered racist today. Stanley Kramer of Judgment at Nuremberg fame a racist?
Time to give it a rest and be glad times have changed instead of being perpetually aggrieved.
Waiting for the writer to condemn stereotypical caricatures of English twits, cowardly French, fighting Irish, militaristic Germans, dumb Polish, gangster Italians, thieving Romanians, drunken Russians, and fat Americans.
Those racists, which they indisputably were by today's standards, destroyed a tyranny that would have spread real racism across the entire world.