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In reply to the discussion: When Your Favorite Childhood Films Are a Little More Homophobic Than You Remembered [View all]Smarmie Doofus
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>>>There are other examples I remember from Looney Tunes of racist caricatures, the main one I recall was Bugs behaving like a Steppin Fetchit-style slave begging Yosemite Sam (was a Confederate general, I think) not to whip him and then rushing off screen to re-appear as Lincoln scolding Sam: "What's this I hear about you whipping slaves?">>>
... if a young mind can absorb the *meaning* of the narrative that you've just described, he/she/s already absorbed more understanding of what the Civil War was about than many current HS grads and adults who are walking around with the most *peculiar* notions about their own US history. (The most peculiar being that history matters at all.)