This has been coming up a lot with dvd releases of old cartoons like how Loony Toons and Tom and Jerry have fucking "intended for adult collectors only lulz" written on them. One of the BIGGEST disappointments this year came when Little, Brown witheld the publication of The Adventures of Tintin gift set (which contained, for the first time in America, EVERY published tintin adventure in one hardbound package) because a few of the earlier books contained racial stereotypes like squinty eyed, buck toothed chinese guys and big lipped black people.
Why is it that society (and not just American society because the UK was a major factor in the publication delay) must DENY its history? It's like we want to teach our kids that NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS? Why is it that publishers must treat us like fucking idiots and FUCKING IDIOTS get clear cut advantages in civil law suits!? The problem with society is the lack of parenting. If I was a parent of a five year old child, I would view everything they would unless I was 100% certain it contained material they wouldn't understand. Even if I was sure, I'd ask them what they learned or how they felt about it. Fucking parents these days pretty much sit their kids in front of the TV and leave. In all honesty, my follks did the same but they pretty much drilled me at the end of the day to make sure I didn't turn into a nutjob with no sense of reality and fantasy.
But I digress, I think this is retarded. I'm pretty sure any sane parent would laugh at the warning when they pick up box.
Tintin DID have a lot of racial stereotypes, but so did like nearly everything else around that time. It's like people forgot that when they were growing up watching Sesame Street, Looney Tunes, Nickelodeon, and reading Tintin that they were reading and watching the same shit that now they're claiming that children couldn't handle nowadays. I mean, seriousy, it's fucking stupid. Racism and sex are realities, children tend to be more and more aware of them at younger and younger ages, and restricting what they watch on TV and read in books isn't going to change that.
I mean, if you're gonna go after something, go after these fucking commercials that come through during children and family programming where women are over sexualized (yeah, "organic experience," real clever, like EVERYONE in elementary school doesn't know what that really means) and alcohol is shown to be accompanied by a grand ole time with no repercussions. I'm more worried about
commercials than I am about the shows themselves. Sesame Street and Tintin are pretty damn harmless! I grew up watching and reading that shit and I turned out fine.
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