<story><title>HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge</title><url>https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/looney-tunes-hbo-max-removed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>Do you have a list of these classic, summarily-banished works? In a world where &lt;i&gt;Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever&lt;/i&gt; is available on mainstream streaming services, it&amp;#x27;s hard to imagine what atrocities you&amp;#x27;re thinking of.</text></item><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; There are vile ethnic caricatures and slurs in those patriotic cartoons from the Second World War, and to its immense credit, Warner Bros. has often worked to contextualize and preserve those shorts. In several cases, it has included those works in separate subsections on home-video releases, so that they won’t autoplay with the rest of the cartoons.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If only more shared this view that we should thoughtfully and critically engage with problematic elements of classic works rather than summarily banishing them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parker_mountain</author><text>They worst of them are referred to as the Censored Eleven, although you can easily find them intact (albeit, with a warning). It&amp;#x27;s not a complete list - others have been added to the list since, such as WWII cartoons with highly racist anti-Japanese charactures.&lt;p&gt;An example of one illustrates why the content might be considered problematic: &amp;quot;Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs&amp;quot;. A contemporary review said, &amp;quot;A satire on Snow White done in blackface, set in modern swing, this is the best in a long time. It&amp;#x27;s very funny.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;atrocities&amp;quot; include rampant racism, sexism, and other needless offenses with the intent of comedy. Other media of the time, such as Theodore Geisel&amp;#x2F;Dr Suess&amp;#x27; wartime cartoons, often show up on these lists as well.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion, it&amp;#x27;s good that these cartoons are accessible, with content warnings, yet kept out of normal playback rotation. They&amp;#x27;re relics of an age gone, thankfully, past.</text></comment>
<story><title>HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge</title><url>https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/looney-tunes-hbo-max-removed.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CharlesW</author><text>Do you have a list of these classic, summarily-banished works? In a world where &lt;i&gt;Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever&lt;/i&gt; is available on mainstream streaming services, it&amp;#x27;s hard to imagine what atrocities you&amp;#x27;re thinking of.</text></item><item><author>mortenjorck</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; There are vile ethnic caricatures and slurs in those patriotic cartoons from the Second World War, and to its immense credit, Warner Bros. has often worked to contextualize and preserve those shorts. In several cases, it has included those works in separate subsections on home-video releases, so that they won’t autoplay with the rest of the cartoons.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If only more shared this view that we should thoughtfully and critically engage with problematic elements of classic works rather than summarily banishing them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RichardCA</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s a good example. I rememeber seeing this back in the 90&amp;#x27;s when they would have weekend &amp;quot;mini-Cons&amp;quot; in L.A. at places like the Ambassador Hotel for animation and Anime fans. They had to project it on 16mm film.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&amp;#x2F;video&amp;#x2F;x6q8qen&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailymotion.com&amp;#x2F;video&amp;#x2F;x6q8qen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Scat&amp;quot; version of Nagasaki was provided by Leo &amp;quot;Zoot&amp;quot; Watson: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;looneytunes.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Leo_Watson&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;looneytunes.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Leo_Watson&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>