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Walter Lantz was a major league asshole and a huge racist.
So fuck him. I refuse to watch his cartoons. They suck anyway.
Do you have any more info on that? If the Wikipedia article is to be believed, it sounds like he didn't think it would be offensive and tried to correct his behavior after universal announced that it would be pulled due to being offensive. It sounds like McEvoy was the real PoS for attempting to justify the cartoon to an NAACP representative.
Agreed, hes not exactly clean from wrongdoing but based on the wiki i dont think he was hatefull.
The controversy was a shock to Walter Lantz, who prided himself on avoiding problems with the censors. He repeatedly stated that his cartoons were never meant to offend anyone. After the 1949 decision, Lantz made a major effort to exclude any offensive caricatures of racial or ethnic groups in his cartoons. He also promised that Scrub Me Mama would never be distributed on television; however, according to eyewitness accounts, the short was broadcast on TV during the 1950s and continued to be seen as late as the 1980s.
We are going to need a proper conversation about this. People can act a certain way without completly being that way. All racist behavior is bad but I personally draw a line at do they actually carry hate or disdain. Some people are just ignorant and others nondiscriminatory don’t care about anyone thats not themselves which ain’t good either but still not Fascist.
Direct your attention to @flyingsquid's second reply above.