# Were Early Cartoons Racist?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 6, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-early-cartoons-racist/64528 "2001-05-06T08:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-early-cartoons-racist/64528/81 "2001-07-04T01:15:31Z")

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> \*Originally posted by jab1 \*  
> \*\*I’m pretty sure some of the Snafu cartoons are on home video. \*\*

They all are, I’ve got 'em and they’re great. Two video set from Bosko video (I found that they may be available on [DVD](http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews/completeprivatesnafu.html)!)

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-early-cartoons-racist/64528/82 "2001-07-04T10:47:19Z")

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\*Originally posted by jab1 \*  
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> \*Originally posted by Gr8Kat \*  
> **in the Tex Avery 3 Little Pigs cartoon, I noticed that there was a sign in front of the pigs’ bunker that read “No Dogs.” The word “dogs” was crossed out and it appeared that something else had been written above it, but _that_ had been blurred out.**

I noticed that too.

The word was “Japs.” According to Jerry Beck, the censorship was on Turner’s old print, and there was nothing he could do about it. (A joke about Doolittle’s bombing of Tokyo was also missing from the old print.)

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