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Well what I'm saying is I don't think it's racist in the context of the time. They weren't being any more negative than any cartoon is when they poke fun of every other group. It didn't feel to me like they were trying to put down blacks as much as just mash up two things in a silly, funny way. It's racial, but not racist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Advocate
It's a tad racist. The big red lips are a jab black people. And the main female is shown to be more promiscuous and sexual than her white counter parts are in cartoons from warner brothers at the time (her skirt is shorter. She's all lovey dovey with any male where a white female character would have looked sexual but withheld loven's).
But whatever. I like that cartoon. It moves with a lot of speed. And Warner brothers put a negative spin on most of their human characters back then. Elmer Fudd and yosemite sam are two white leading characters and they are both fucking incompetent. White, black, whatever, unless you were bugs bunny or the road runner, you were going to be the butt of the jokes at Warner brothers.
And Wile ... E ... Coyote-eee.
he's animal. Who gives a shit if animals are offended of sterotypes of them.
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Originally Posted by Fe 26
Right. The whole concept of a cartoon (i.e. a charicature) is to make the kind of sweeping exaggerations we avoid in other media. They're still like this, really, but they tend to avoid doing it with race as much as they used to, especially blacks. But almost every character in The Simpsons is a stereotype of some sort, including a few ethnic ones (Apu, Groundskeeper Willy, Bumblebee Man, etc). This kind of stuff isn't really wrongheaded or hateful towards the people it's parodying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I think it might come off a lot worse it if they threw "superior" white people into the cartoon, but as it is, it comes off as cartoonists making fun in the way cartoonists do.