Most of us have not advocating censoring these things. What we have been suggesting is that people (kids in particular) be given the information they need to make historical sense of them. *Why* would a cartoonist want to represent Congolese as animals? Couldn't it *just* *possibly* have something to do with him coming out of a culture that had massacred up to 20 million of them, ending only at about the time he was born, and got away with it, with his political allegiance being to a party that wanted more of the same?

Usually when rednecks start this "PC"/"nanny state"/"Nazi bookburning" crap, what they really mean is they don't want anti-racist or anti-imperialist material getting into the public domain.

Brian Siano's page on the origins of the "PC" scare is illuminating:

http://www.briansiano.com/The%20Great%20Political%20Correctness%20Panic.htm

We had similar crap this side of the pond under Thatcher. What really ticked off the far right ideologues was that (1) better-written non-racist kids' books had been produced since their childhood, which any late 20th century kid in their right mind would prefer to read any day, (2) there was also educational material that made it very clear to any literate kid what the imperial assumptions behind stuff like Enid Blyton and Disney were.   And they *really* didn't want British kids coming in contact with ideas like that.

Another good book on the African genocides and 20th century imperialist amnesia about them: Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes" (1992 in Swedish, translation 1996).

Another interesting tack on fascist literature is Klaus Theweleit's "Male Fantasies". He is so far from wanting to censor that stuff that he spent years unearthing wildly obscure proto-Nazi literature to make sense of it. Very few people could ever encounter it except through the quotations and images he uses - mountains of them, it's a huge book and he largely lets the material speak for itself. On a much smaller scale, Andrea Dworkin's "Right Wing Women" does something like that for American conservative ideologies - I certainly haven't come across those doolally ideas directly.