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solacekames:

Hey y’all just a polite request from your local Tumblr Japanese-American: if you’re reblogging vintage antifascist Dr. Seuss comics, please look in the background and make sure there aren’t any racist Japanese caricatures before you hit the reblog button. Because he drew a LOT of them. As usual for the era, the cartoons against the Japanese Imperial forces went far into anti-Asian racism in a way that the anti-German stuff never could. He also produced pro-internment images.

This isn’t a “call-out” post of any sort, just please be aware so you don’t accidentally reblog any racist images out of lack of familiarity with the 1940s visual tropes.

Holy shit what

Dr. Seuss did unfortunately support the internment of Japanese Americans and made a lot of racist cartoons involving them during/immediately after the war. He also spent the rest of his life trying to make up for it. The story Horton Hears a Who was meant as part of an apology, a lot of his storied after that reflect similar sentiments too. I’m not on my computer but when I get home I can source it for you if you need. I think its a fairly nice story, he learned and then used his career to try to teach others to do the same. Doesn’t change the fact that those comics still do exist though…