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b_b · 4880 days ago · link · · parent · post: WWII training cartoons by the creator of Loony Tunes and Dr. Seuss
Thanks for the history! This is amazing. When I was a kid, I had a VHS box set of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck WWII cartoons. They would feature things like Bugs dressing as a female to trick Hitler, Daffy flying a Mustang, and a lot of anti-Japanese humor that we would consider borderline racist now. I think its really cool the way the entire country, including animators, contributed to the War Effort. If you're going to fight a war, go all in I suppose; all the wars since have been fought "elsewhere" by a small group of people in countries that no one has heard of for political reasons no one understands. These are good reminders of how germane to everyone's life the war was. Trey Parker did an Osama Bin Laden episode of South Park that directly referenced the Bugs-Hitler cartoons, and he was criticized for being insensitive to Muslims.