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loafy013 posted...

Reminds me of like a decade ago, when Cartoon Network decided to run ALL the old looney tunes. They more or less showed them in chronological order. But the ones with the blatant stereotypes and racism, they held them back to air during the wee hours of the night, along with disclaimers.

I have mixed feelings about All That and Rabbit Stew. One one hand, the nameless antagonist is pretty insensitive. On the other hand, he's Elmer Fudd -- only Black. Part of me thinks the short should get a pass because the way the character is depicted is consistent with how Elmer Fudd (and everyone else) is depicted. Looney Tunes was basically the South Park of the mid-20th century.

But at the same time, I'll freely admit that White people were treated much better in both animation and live action than what Black people and their animated counterparts were treated. That episode gets a pass when matched against other Looney Tunes episodes. When taken in a collective context of how people of different ethnic groups were depicted at the time, it's sadly consistent with how badly Black people were stereotyped in other media.

Of course, maybe I should revisit that short before I comment on it. I haven't seen it in a decade or so and it's possible that it's far worse than I remember it being.