Not really off the subject: I just clicked on that webpage again and noticed how the hero of this cartoon series Dudley Do-Right is drawn as a blong haired White man. His lady love (Nell Fenwick) is also drawn as a White woman (with red hair). And Dudley rides a white horse. But "Whiplash is the stereotypical villain, in the style of stock characters found in silent movies and earlier stage melodrama, wearing black clothing, cape, and a top hat, and twirling his long handlebar moustache. He has a henchman named Homer, who usually wears a tuque. In the cartoon's opening segments, Snidely is seen tying Nell Fenwick to a railroad track. He is the antithesis of Do-Right, a picture-perfect stereotype of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police do-gooder.". -snip- The writer fails to mention that the villain, Snidely Whiplash, is not White but a kinda greenish color. Does this matter? I say Yes, since these stereotypes continue to permeate Western society in myriad ways. This is an example of how deeply rooted, pernicious, and often unconscious institutional racism can be.
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