Should racist cartoons be destroyed?

Niether! They should remain as they were! People are wayyyyy too politically correct these days!

Why don't you have any options that say to leave them as is?

Destroying them or banning them would be absolutely ridiculous in any free society. This would be a serious infringment of freedom of speech.

Networks should also have the right ot air them based on the first amendment. If parents don't want their children watching them it is within their right to not let their own children watch them.

I disagree with you that they shouldn't be shown on television. Good or bad, it is part of our cultural history.

We shouldn't control history. We should examine history and work out what it says about our present. We should also allow future generations the right to do the same.

I'm not a fan of censorship. The most evil among us practice book burning ceremonies.
Not only is it absolutely impossible to "protect" every living being from offense...but if you never are offended...you don't live in a free society.

I agree, to ban or destroy them would be a lame attempt at re-writing the books of history.

I vote...

if you find something offensive change the channel.

just because YOU dislike it doesn't mean everyone else has to.
or that they're obligated to see the same things in it you see.

There are something like 60-200 channels available to the average user.
Don't like something?
Change the channel, dip****!

destroyed. 'spongebob and the uppity negro' was a pretty bad episode.

DO NOT DESTROY THE BOONDOCKS!!! The rest should be abolished...

Everything is "offensive" to somebody.

They should stay on TV, Bosko is much more politically correct then Dora, Dora chants about wanting to go to "cocaine island". Bosko is much more innocent.

Freedom of speech mother fucker.

They should definitely not be banned/destroyed. I would encourage you and anyone to think about them as antique cartoons. Racist implies intent. I do not think that the creators of children's cartoons in the 1930's intended them to be hurtful. I think that intended them to be relevant to society at that point in time. There really is no need to be so embarrassed by our past. We did not personally hold those opinions or stereotypes. I enjoy watching old cartoons/movies to have a better understanding of people from that time.

I hate the idea of people destroying art because they find it offensive.
Fuck them.
I do not support the creation of racist art, but it it's already been made, then please don't destroy it. It's a historical account if nothing else.

Ignore my comment above. I accidentally commented on the wrong poll.

No. It's a part of history and if you sugar-coat it, people will forget. Eventually, history could repeat itself.

Racist, sexist, or any other cartoons like "Coonskin" shouldn't be destroyed. With different ways entertainment is shown to people today (home media, internet), I feel like they should be distributed that way. These cartoons, as offensive as they may or may not be, are important to American history. While Americans may not want to show it, this is how people were presented at the time, and it's important that people can access them. The difference between the comedy today and the comedy then is that now everything is hidden: objectifying women, and other things were up-front then, and I feel like to take these away and pretend they never existed is like saying that the holocaust never occurred.

I say leave 'em like they are. People are so uptight nowadays...

south park should be destroyed. (:

some of them should because there just too much but others are ok.

They should remain.
People who go around being hurt or offended by anyone else need to just grow the heck up!

Most modern comedy plays on it; it is just different because most modern comedy is an "equal opportunity destroyer" (meaning they will make fun of mannerism of several different types of people instead of focusing in on just one.)

Most people tend to have a sense of humor because they will laugh at jokes made against a group or ethnicity that is not their own. If they are willing to laugh at a joke made at the expense of one ethnicity, they ought to take it with a mild humor when their ethnicity is next on list. It is easier to laugh at them than to get mad. Getting upset just cedes control over yourself to someone else. You allow that person to dictate your mood and in some cases the outcomes of a period of your time. It is easier to just get back with something equally as biting and quip that way, than to go around angry and offended all the time.

I like the WW2 cartoons making fun of Nazis, I know some people have a problem with those too.

Jynx got destroyed. R.I.P Jynx, you will be missed.

Depends on why people think it's offensive. For example Family Guy or South Park could be considered offensive, but they're shown on FX and Comedy Central, which I think is fine.

With Bosko the Talk-Ink kid, I've never seen it, but from pictures I assume it's derogatory to black people? Stuff like that has no place in children's cartoon shows or any TV for that matter, if people find it funny however, it should be broadcast on adult TV channels only, and past certain hours in the day.

So, offensive shows? Keep them. Racist/immoral shows? Ban them from children's networks, and put them on late for any adults that REALLY want to watch them.

They should be kept as history and be legal to buy and own, I don't think they should be shown on TV though.