smilingsloth reblogged your post and added:
I don’t want to derail the conversation or distract from how incredible this lesson is but I feel it is so. fucking. important for animators to be aware of this. To look at the characters so popular present day in historical context. Look at the horrible mistakes and blatant discrimination artists before us have participated in and acknowledge them as such. Forgive my very obvious google searching but…
“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.”
marauderer and I had a mini-convo about that once (1, 2, 3)
But yes I definitely agree @ that curriculum.
pentag0nal reblogged your post and added:
I was all ready to say, “Wait, Mickey Mouse isn’t based on blackface, he has the same basic facial design as literally dozens of other cartoons who all debuted at about the same…oh.”
Haha, yeeeeeeep.
"once you see it..."
lilacey-lolizan tagged your post with:
#the difference is that warner brothers apologised straight up
#instead of trying to hide all their racist content and hope that no one remembers.
OH MAN YEAH. Like the way WB "handled" it vs Disney kind of ignoring the shitty origins in favor of preserving their #wholesome image is super fascinating.
Like even if you were to google : "[Company name] racist cartoon apology?" the results are vastly different.