Comments on: Racist Propoganda Cartoons: What to do with our racist past? http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/ A blog for Asian Americans Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 8Asians.com » Racist 1960s Comic?: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-66492 8Asians.com » Racist 1960s Comic?: An Asian American/Asian Canadian Blog Sat, 17 May 2008 22:21:42 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-66492 [...] the cover, I immediately thought about when fellow 8asians blogger Bo brought our attention to the Racist Propaganda Cartoons during the WWII era. 1960s as we all know was a precarious decade; communism, Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, [...] [...] the cover, I immediately thought about when fellow 8asians blogger Bo brought our attention to the Racist Propaganda Cartoons during the WWII era. 1960s as we all know was a precarious decade; communism, Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, [...]

]]> By: Bo http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-65124 Bo Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:26:08 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-65124 Simon, based on the NY Times article my impression is that Warner Bros never really meant for these videos to ever get out and the company pretty much tried to ban the use of these cartoons for the past several years. Also, the NAACP appears to be all for the cartoons never surfacing in any context. Jun brings up a good point about wiping textbooks clean of undesirable episodes of history...Alas, I think Japan has pretty much already done that regarding their roles in WWII and prior. Simon, based on the NY Times article my impression is that Warner Bros never really meant for these videos to ever get out and the company pretty much tried to ban the use of these cartoons for the past several years. Also, the NAACP appears to be all for the cartoons never surfacing in any context.

Jun brings up a good point about wiping textbooks clean of undesirable episodes of history…Alas, I think Japan has pretty much already done that regarding their roles in WWII and prior.

]]> By: Bo http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-138288 Bo Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:26:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-138288 Simon, based on the NY Times article my impression is that Warner Bros never really meant for these videos to ever get out and the company pretty much tried to ban the use of these cartoons for the past several years. Also, the NAACP appears to be all for the cartoons never surfacing in any context. Jun brings up a good point about wiping textbooks clean of undesirable episodes of history...Alas, I think Japan has pretty much already done that regarding their roles in WWII and prior. Simon, based on the NY Times article my impression is that Warner Bros never really meant for these videos to ever get out and the company pretty much tried to ban the use of these cartoons for the past several years. Also, the NAACP appears to be all for the cartoons never surfacing in any context.

Jun brings up a good point about wiping textbooks clean of undesirable episodes of history…Alas, I think Japan has pretty much already done that regarding their roles in WWII and prior.

]]> By: Simon Bao http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-65120 Simon Bao Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:10:11 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-65120 Whoa wait a minute. Or, "hold the phone!" Does anyone know with certainty that Warner Brothers "wants nothing to do with" these cartoons? Anyone know with certainty that what we want is to "hide or ban" these cartoons? Warner Brothers has an absolute legal right to restrict the cartoons to any use they want, including no use at all. But it's entirely possible that they simply recognize that YouTube is no place for those cartoons to be appearing. The cartoons probably do belong in a museum exhibit. A physical exhibit or a virtual, digital one. An exhibit created by curators working on our racial history or media history. Where they can be viewed in a specific context, with understanding. There's nothing to suggest that Warner Brothers would resist that. They've permitted the use of offensive cartoons in exhibits about World War II. To insist the cartoons come off YouTube isn't at all the same as pretending the cartoons don't exist. It may well be exactly the kind of judgment we'd like more corporations to exercise. Whoa wait a minute. Or, “hold the phone!”

Does anyone know with certainty that Warner Brothers “wants nothing to do with” these cartoons? Anyone know with certainty that what we want is to “hide or ban” these cartoons?

Warner Brothers has an absolute legal right to restrict the cartoons to any use they want, including no use at all. But it’s entirely possible that they simply recognize that YouTube is no place for those cartoons to be appearing.

The cartoons probably do belong in a museum exhibit. A physical exhibit or a virtual, digital one. An exhibit created by curators working on our racial history or media history. Where they can be viewed in a specific context, with understanding. There’s nothing to suggest that Warner Brothers would resist that. They’ve permitted the use of offensive cartoons in exhibits about World War II.

To insist the cartoons come off YouTube isn’t at all the same as pretending the cartoons don’t exist. It may well be exactly the kind of judgment we’d like more corporations to exercise.

]]> By: Simon Bao http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-138287 Simon Bao Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:10:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-138287 Whoa wait a minute. Or, "hold the phone!" Does anyone know with certainty that Warner Brothers "wants nothing to do with" these cartoons? Anyone know with certainty that what we want is to "hide or ban" these cartoons? Warner Brothers has an absolute legal right to restrict the cartoons to any use they want, including no use at all. But it's entirely possible that they simply recognize that YouTube is no place for those cartoons to be appearing. The cartoons probably do belong in a museum exhibit. A physical exhibit or a virtual, digital one. An exhibit created by curators working on our racial history or media history. Where they can be viewed in a specific context, with understanding. There's nothing to suggest that Warner Brothers would resist that. They've permitted the use of offensive cartoons in exhibits about World War II. To insist the cartoons come off YouTube isn't at all the same as pretending the cartoons don't exist. It may well be exactly the kind of judgment we'd like more corporations to exercise. Whoa wait a minute. Or, “hold the phone!”

Does anyone know with certainty that Warner Brothers “wants nothing to do with” these cartoons? Anyone know with certainty that what we want is to “hide or ban” these cartoons?

Warner Brothers has an absolute legal right to restrict the cartoons to any use they want, including no use at all. But it’s entirely possible that they simply recognize that YouTube is no place for those cartoons to be appearing.

The cartoons probably do belong in a museum exhibit. A physical exhibit or a virtual, digital one. An exhibit created by curators working on our racial history or media history. Where they can be viewed in a specific context, with understanding. There’s nothing to suggest that Warner Brothers would resist that. They’ve permitted the use of offensive cartoons in exhibits about World War II.

To insist the cartoons come off YouTube isn’t at all the same as pretending the cartoons don’t exist. It may well be exactly the kind of judgment we’d like more corporations to exercise.

]]> By: Mike Belgrove http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-65049 Mike Belgrove Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:20:22 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-65049 Juan over at Highbrid Nation did a nice piece on <a href="http://highbridnation.com/2008/04/29/racist-warner-bros-1940s-cartoons-available-on-youtube/" rel="nofollow">these racist cartoon showing up on the net</a>. My opinion on the whole thing is that these cartoons need to be soon and should not be sweeped under a rug or locked in a vault. They are part of our history. Our society (Whites and blacks alike) seem to want to hide or "ban" anything viewed as racist. Whats the end goal? To say "look. no racism". We need to look at things such as these cartoons so we can understand how deep rooted racism is and was. Only then can we move forward. Pretending like they don't exist doesn't help. Juan over at Highbrid Nation did a nice piece on these racist cartoon showing up on the net. My opinion on the whole thing is that these cartoons need to be soon and should not be sweeped under a rug or locked in a vault. They are part of our history. Our society (Whites and blacks alike) seem to want to hide or “ban” anything viewed as racist. Whats the end goal? To say “look. no racism”. We need to look at things such as these cartoons so we can understand how deep rooted racism is and was. Only then can we move forward. Pretending like they don’t exist doesn’t help.

]]> By: Mike Belgrove http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-138286 Mike Belgrove Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:20:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-138286 Juan over at Highbrid Nation did a nice piece on <a href="http://highbridnation.com/2008/04/29/racist-warner-bros-1940s-cartoons-available-on-youtube/" rel="nofollow">these racist cartoon showing up on the net</a>. My opinion on the whole thing is that these cartoons need to be soon and should not be sweeped under a rug or locked in a vault. They are part of our history. Our society (Whites and blacks alike) seem to want to hide or "ban" anything viewed as racist. Whats the end goal? To say "look. no racism". We need to look at things such as these cartoons so we can understand how deep rooted racism is and was. Only then can we move forward. Pretending like they don't exist doesn't help. Juan over at Highbrid Nation did a nice piece on these racist cartoon showing up on the net. My opinion on the whole thing is that these cartoons need to be soon and should not be sweeped under a rug or locked in a vault. They are part of our history. Our society (Whites and blacks alike) seem to want to hide or “ban” anything viewed as racist. Whats the end goal? To say “look. no racism”. We need to look at things such as these cartoons so we can understand how deep rooted racism is and was. Only then can we move forward. Pretending like they don’t exist doesn’t help.

]]> By: Concerned http://www.8asians.com/2008/04/28/racist-propoganda-cartoons-what-to-do-with-our-racist-past/comment-page-1/#comment-65047 Concerned Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:51:18 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=1099#comment-65047 That made sense. ;) That made sense. ;)

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