Well heard it all now. My absolute favourite show/cartoon as a child has been branded racist because of its portrayal of Thomas's owner being a "black maid"
Amazon place a warning message on its Prime Service and quoting from the BBC website -
"Tom and Jerry shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today."
Talk about sucking the fun out of what is IMHO one of the best cartoon series ever created.
A further quote, sums up exactly the thoughts of many -
The warning was attacked as "empty-headed" by cultural commentator and professor of sociology, Frank Furedi, who said it was a form of a "false piousness" and a type of censorship which "seems to be sweeping cultural life".
Nothing more to be said really - its pathetic
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