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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8470533" data-attributes="member: 4534">I saw an interview with Larry Hama, who is best known as the primary writer on Marvel's GI Joe line of comics in the 1980s and created the biographical sketches for characters that found their ways into the file cards on the backs of the action figures sold by Hasbro, where he referred to the cartoon series as &quot;morally bankrupt.&quot;&nbsp; His problem was that the cartoon series depicted violence where nobody really got hurt.&nbsp; Pilots ejected just before enemy missiles hit their aircraft, instead of firing bullets all firearms shot laser beams, and ultimately nobody really got hurt.&nbsp; Contrast that with the comic book where people died and sometimes important people died.&nbsp; I still remember the death of Kwinn the Eskimo and the funeral Snake Eyes' funeral for his friend in a subsequent issue.&nbsp; From my perspective, flat out ignoring slavery, sexism, racism, etc., etc. in historical settings is morally bankrupt.&nbsp; One of the reasons Disney's Song of the South isn't shown these days is because it ignores the reality of black Americans in the South (there are other reasons of course). And the time period is a bit ambiguous in regards to whether this was the Antebellum South or Reconstruction era.&nbsp; Like I said earlier in this thread, I do tend to tone down the racism and many other isms when I run a Call of Cthulhu game sent in the 1930s to make sure the game is fun.&nbsp; There's language I just don't use and I don't bludgeon PCs over the head with barriers that making the game not-so-fun.&nbsp; But I can't bring myself to ignore in its entirety the bigotry that existed at the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8470533, member: 4534"] I saw an interview with Larry Hama, who is best known as the primary writer on Marvel's GI Joe line of comics in the 1980s and created the biographical sketches for characters that found their ways into the file cards on the backs of the action figures sold by Hasbro, where he referred to the cartoon series as "morally bankrupt." His problem was that the cartoon series depicted violence where nobody really got hurt. Pilots ejected just before enemy missiles hit their aircraft, instead of firing bullets all firearms shot laser beams, and ultimately nobody really got hurt. Contrast that with the comic book where people died and sometimes important people died. I still remember the death of Kwinn the Eskimo and the funeral Snake Eyes' funeral for his friend in a subsequent issue. From my perspective, flat out ignoring slavery, sexism, racism, etc., etc. in historical settings is morally bankrupt. One of the reasons Disney's [I]Song of the South[/I] isn't shown these days is because it ignores the reality of black Americans in the South (there are other reasons of course). And the time period is a bit ambiguous in regards to whether this was the Antebellum South or Reconstruction era. Like I said earlier in this thread, I do tend to tone down the racism and many other isms when I run a [I]Call of Cthulhu [/I]game sent in the 1930s to make sure the game is fun. There's language I just don't use and I don't bludgeon PCs over the head with barriers that making the game not-so-fun. But I can't bring myself to ignore in its entirety the bigotry that existed at the time. [/QUOTE]

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