Pippi Longstoccking: Racist?

[author_by_night]

I've been hearing that a lot lately... anyone know the reasoning?

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[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah... thank god for European colonizers, right? But so she liked the story as a kid. Kids are dumb.

Well, kids see a story about a nice man who takes the boy on an adventure. But because we know about imperialism, we know there were likely raccial overtones in that story.

[auvergne.livejournal.com]

I know, that's my point. It's a racist story, but still appealing to kids, who don't know better; why fault them?

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

You're right - we shouldn't fault them.