Yep. Every time Tom gets caught in an explosion he turns black. Racist for sure.
Racism is in the eye of the BeHolder.
BBC correspondent Sean Coughlan: British genius.
I wonder what the disclaimer is on “The Goofy Gophers” or “Speedy Gonzales”
I assume they’re referring primarily to some of the early ones where Tom’s owner was an Aunt Jemima-type woman.
I bought the Loony Tunes collection and Whoopie Goldberg started the DVD set with the same warning.
Those warnings have been appearing for years on the Looney Tunes DVDs and Blu-rays I have collected. Some of the cartoons actually are racist. I’d rather get the cartoon with a disclaimer rather than get the cartoon with cuts or not get the cartoon at all.
Best episode, ever!
If a cat hits a mouse obviously that is racist/sarc
"XYZ video shorts may depict some left wing totalitarian indoctrination and Commie talking points that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.'"
White Guilt is metastasizing and expanding. It’s destroying everything that’s a part of American culture.
Goodbye Speedy Gonzales
The more the establishment protests old timey examples of racism the more the youth who are rebellious by nature will latch on to those stereotypes and use them just to be rebellious...
So essentially if they didn’t say anything the would be less youth knowing about it, now the youth are going to search for it because it is taboo and cool...
I don’t see anything racist in the T&J cartoons.
But Amazon has the 1st Amendment right to issue whatever warnings they want.
As long as no coercion by any government was involved, more power to them.
It may not just be Amazon making this pronouncement, check the packaging, I’ve seen similar wording on major studio releases of old cartoons.
I have an old book (1920s?) titled “Black Stories for White Children”.
It’s probably racist, isn’t it?
http://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Declaration-Independence-Articles-Confederation/dp/1604592680
Disclaimer from the publisher;
“This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.”
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I am not surprised that Amazon would include nonsense warnings for things like a cat and mouse cartoon.
On my Best Of Looney Tunes DVD set, each disc starts out with Whoopi Goldberg warning that some of the cartoons have racist elements. God, I love fast forward.