For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.
Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.
For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.
Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.
Tintin. It took me until I read "tintin in the Congo" to realise something was up. It really hit a second time when I found out Hergé was Belgian.
Then of course the whole cowboy stuff that was sooooo popular. Karl May, Lucky Luke etc.
Even a lot of lullabies or play songs are so plainly racist its mindboggling. I was worried about having to check what media my kid is consuming when he gets older what with all the copaganda and other korra-like liberal messaging but the overt racism in songs for babies really blindsided me.
And then others look at us like "why are white people so racist?" My friend, we've been fed this shit before we could even understand speech.
Hergé is problematic, yeah. He was once paid quite a bit of money to draw/write a propaganda piece for a far-right newspaper in Belgium, too, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (it's awful, though not quite as awful as the Congo one - the only thing that one has going for it is the naked version for a quick smirk I guess, and obviously that was not from Hergé)
Comic Tropes has a great episode about him
Same with me and Asterix. I grew up with it and I love the story about the Gauls standing up to the Romans, but the rasism and depiction of POC is SHEESH
Plus apparently there is are a lot of (mostly French boomer) Asterix fans that lament that the new entries in the comic aren't 'politically incorrect' anymore.