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.
Should racist cartoons be destroyed?
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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.