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In reply to the discussion: When Your Favorite Childhood Films Are a Little More Homophobic Than You Remembered [View all]jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)Just hiding things away isn't treating children with respect for their intelligence. I mean hell, do we throw away Seuss because of his WWII cartoons?
What's a very important lesson to teach is that it's not just bad people who think and do bad things, good people you respect can also have terrible ideas. And when they don't even know there's anything wrong with it in context, that's how it continues.
If I'm raised to call any black man a boy and older blacks aunt and uncle, how am I to know its wrong?
It also raises the question for the kids "what are you watching produced this very year that will seem just as backwards and wrong in the coming decades?"
Wigging out over a word can miss the point. Huck Finn gets thrown out and nobody realizes Jim is portrayed as a better man than most of the whites in the book.
When people got blown up in Looney Tunes, I thought the blackened faces and swollen lips were on account of trauma. So whenever I saw blackface in movies, I never realized they were supposed to be black, I thought someone had given them an exploding cigar. Made movies damned confusing for me as a kid.