Whats is with making old cartoons politically correct?

[BooGiMaN]

so i was watching Tom and Jerry with my kid and the maid in the cartoon came over to yell i Tom or so i thought.

The maid in the cartoon was dressed like aunt jemima from the syrup bottle, obviously she was drawn to be black ..but everytime she spoke you could tell the voiced over the original.

I mean im sure the original spoke in a southern drawl or something like that if i remember correctly...but are people so sensisitve that they actually had to go in and change the cartoons?

 

[her209]

Popeye was pretty p.i.

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: her209
Popeye was pretty p.i.

most of the old cartoons are very P.I. at one tiem or another

 

[TommyVercetti]

ANyone seen that one where Bugs Bunny burrows out on a Japanese island? Classic P.I Cartoon!!!

 

[Kadarin]

Yep.. those old WWII Warner Bros cartoons were quite, er, insensitive.. My feeling is that they should remain the way they were originally done; for better or worse, history should be preserved as it happened and not as some revisionist dreamworld.

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Yep.. those old WWII Warner Bros cartoons were quite, er, insensitive.. My feeling is that they should remain the way they were originally done; for better or worse, history should be preserved as it happened and not as some revisionist dreamworld.

I don't agree with revisionist history, but I don't think little kids need to learn about Nips and blackface until they're old enough to handle it.

 

[yruffostsif]

BS, i grew up on those repeats....tom & jerry, bugs, popeye, mighty mouse, etc...

I wouldn't change a thing, and I actually watch 'em with my kids when they're on Cartoon Network. They just don't show all the ones they used to.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
ANyone seen that one where Bugs Bunny burrows out on a Japanese island? Classic P.I Cartoon!!!

If you must see it, fire up your favourite P2P program and search

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

- M4H

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Spoooon

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Yep.. those old WWII Warner Bros cartoons were quite, er, insensitive.. My feeling is that they should remain the way they were originally done; for better or worse, history should be preserved as it happened and not as some revisionist dreamworld.

I don't agree with revisionist history, but I don't think little kids need to learn about Nips and blackface until they're old enough to handle it.

Probably true, but shouldn't that be the responsibility of the parents?

 

[BooGiMaN]

most of us grew up watching them..if they are gonna change the scenes to make them politically correct might as well take all the violence out too