cartoon dvds from library....shocked!

djdd4

Yesterday our local library opened at a new location.  I took my 4yr old and my 2 yr old to get some books and dvds. The 2yr old picked a dvd case that had Popeye on it. It was classic cartoons something or another. Well we sat down last night to watch it and there was a cartoon that I found offensive.  It was about slaves picking cotton, being sold on an auction block and running away to the "north".  Should I bring it up to the librarian to pull it off the shelf?

Shayna0182

If you personally find it offensive, then say something. 

NativeNyer

Not that it matters but you do know that Popeye is an "old" cartoon right?

There are a lot of cartoons not considered politically correct.  The original Bugs Bunny is another one that comes to mind.

dragon_chica

NativeNyer:

Not that it matters but you do know that Popeye is an "old" cartoon right?

There are a lot of cartoons not considered politically correct.  The original Bugs Bunny is another one that comes to mind.

Ditto this.  You wanna have them remove Tom Sawyer and the likes as well?  Just don't have your kids watch it.

nah82

You may want to start screening things before letting your kids watch.  I was shocked myself a couple weeks ago when we popped in a Dr. Seuss DVD that we'd bought from the $5 bin at Walmart.  May have been Horton Hears a Who, not sure, but it was one of the old ones.  Anyway, the main character is out on a boat and out of nowhere a fish jumps up out of the water, pulls a pistol, and shoots itself in the head, no kidding!  That DVD went in the trash.  There is also a lot of drinking, smoking, and bullying in Dumbo that I'm sure would not fly in a Disney movie today.