Fur Flies as Bugs Bunny's Racist Past Exposed!

General Bugs Bunny conquers Japan in "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips." Seriously.

Tonight's film program at The Tank begs the question: Can anyone summon a better way to get in the democratic spirit of Election Day than to watch some of Warner Bros.' most racist, insensitive and politically incorrect cartoons?

Or as film archivist Dennis Nyback describes in his notes for the Bad Bugs Bunny program:

It [comprises] ten suppressed cartoons that show the true history of America: Sex, Violence and Racism! None of these cartoons has been issued on commercial video tape in their complete, uncensored form. The first big attempt to rewrite the past and censor cartoons was in 1968. Eleven Warner Brothers cartoons were selected to never be shown again. Three of those cartoons are in this program in their complete, original form. I use Bugs Bunny as the icon for the greater output of Warner Brothers animation. Bugs Bunny does not appear in every cartoon. I have tried to make this an equal opportunity offensive program with cartoons insulting as many ethnic groups and sensibilities as possible.

I know, I know--this is terrible news for the tiny percentage of mayoral voters to whom urban-legend always attributes a write-in vote for Bugs Bunny. I told them they should have gone with Harvey Weinstein.






Comments

I would like to see those toons -- I have seen some of them, most likely in censored form -- and one or two clips were shown on a documentary about the Black experience -- but they have educational value...


Boo Hoo, A Satire was made of then an Japanese imperialistic empire that did all it could to genocide the Chinese people and attacked anyone else that stood in its way of domination of that region.


Seriously. This cartoon was made in response to Pearl Harbor. You're allowed to make fun of people who bomb the crap out of you. Bugs also made fun of the Nazis (are you still shocked? Anti-German sentiment during World War II!!!) And wouldn't it have been worse if Warner Brothers had kept showing these cartoons on their Saturday-morning kids' hour?


i wanna see this cartoon.



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