How exactly is this racist?

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    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    It is considered a racist caricature, it's not Seuss's personal style. A different one from Looney Tunes I think. Or search up "mammy black face." There's a term for the asian one, but I can't remember.

    [–]FuckMasks 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    I've got an old looney tunes cartoon set, one episode has a nudie calendar in the background of a good chunk of it. Some other iffy episodes too. It's a gem so far as I'm concerned.

    They're just giving seuss' books a 'rarity' price increase, inadvertently.

    [–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

    It was NOT just his art style. Consider it racist or not, then or now, Sambos and Japs/Nips were common unflattering comical stereotypes of the era.

    Disney's 1940 Fantasia featured the stereotype, later censored, during Beethoven's 6th Pastoral:

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Disney+Fantasia+censored&iar=images

    Fantasia ~ The Pastoral Symphony - UNCENSORED VERSION (8:56) ~ Princess Meg