# This BC comic is pretty racist, right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460 "2020-02-24T22:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460/1 "2020-02-24T22:58:41Z")
I recently found an old umbrella that was given as a gift for a newspaper subscription in the early 1990s. It is covered with Sunday strips from various comics (_Dennis the Menace_, _Garfield_, _Cathy_, _Peanuts_, etc.) [This](https://imgur.com/a/MxOB7fC) is one of the _BC_ ones–from 1993, further back than the archives at [gocomics.com](http://gocomics.com) go. Is it just me, but isn’t that pretty darn racist even for 1993? And the person who designed the umbrella thought it was a good choice? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460/2 "2020-02-24T23:02:14Z")
What race has green skin, yellow hair, a curly moustache, and buck teeth? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460/3 "2020-02-24T23:10:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What race has green skin, yellow hair, a curly moustache, and buck teeth? That rock does look quite a bit like the super racist (and super weird) silver age Wonder Woman villain, [Egg Fu](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/9/9d/Egg_Fu_Earth-One_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111128055247). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460/4 "2020-02-24T23:12:15Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Is it just me, but isn’t that pretty darn racist even for 1993? It’s just you. I suppose you are seeing that as Chinese caricature because of the slanted eyes and buck teeth, but nothing else indicates that. Why isn’t it a German caricature because of the blond mop of hair and the handlebar moustache? It’s just a silly face. (And is that a rock, or the turtle that’s often in the strip?) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460/5 "2020-02-24T23:13:24Z")
And I was sure the cartoon was going to be the I SLAM one. I don’t know if Hart indented the Japanese stereotype in the cartoon, but it sure has it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-bc-comic-is-pretty-racist-right/848460/6 "2020-02-24T23:19:40Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > (And is that a rock, or the turtle that’s often in the strip?) Given that Dookie Bird is nowhere in sight, it’s likely a rock with a colorist’s error.