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Posted by Joe (@joe) on Jan. 14, 2025, 7:49 p.m.
“Bugs Bunny cartoons were heavily into [racism],” history professor Ken Faunce said. “They had these ideas of barbaric people around the world that the United States was going to help.”
The most famous of these examples is the Looney Toons short “Tokio Jokio” from 1943, which by all interpretations today is incredibly racist. However, racism in media has changed drastically since the 1940s.
That cartoon is racist and hateful, but it’s funny that the “best example” is one directed toward the Imperial Japanese at the time that they were fighting a colonial war and committing genocide.
I didn’t read the actual paper, but if you want to and have access to jstor, here it is: