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Here are some cited cartoons from an article of how some Bugs bunny cartoons and other are racist
"Bugs Bunny Cartoons:
"Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips": If you couldn't already tell that this 1944 WWII propaganda piece was racist by its title, then all you had to do was watch it. In the short, Bugs "defeats myopic, bucktoothed Japanese soldiers by dispensing grenade-filled ice cream bars accompanied by racist quips."
"Any Bonds Today?": In this episode, Bugs does a blackface Al Jolson imitation. Blackface is makeup applied to a performer whose imitating a black person. You'd usually see this type of stuff in plays all the time, with the people acting like exaggerated racial caricatures."
"Frigid Hare": This short, made in 1949, features a dimwitted, bucktoothed Eskimo, who Bugs calls a "big babboon."
"Bushy Hare": An aborigine is cast as the spear-throwing foil to Bugs in this 1950 cartoon. It's the same type of exaggerated stereotypes in this one."
"All This and Rabbit Stew": In this 1941 short, Bugs outwits a black hunter by challenging and beating him to a game of craps, winning the guy's clothes in the process. This, apparently, is racist because it features a black person who isn't all that bright. Elmer Fudd is a dopey white guy, so maybe I need to start lobbying for him to be banned from television? It's a thought".
"Tom And Jerry
"Puss 'n' Toots": This 1942 short features Tom's face as a Chinese caricature when a Chinese record is played."
"The Milky Waif": This 1946 episode removes a scene with Jerry and Nibbles as black mice completely. The editing here is laughable. Cartoon Network shows the mice running into a room and then cuts directly to Tom getting a frying pan slammed into his face."