‘Captain Underpants’ book pulled for ‘passive racism’ (10)

1 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-03-29 13:50 ID:r2lJ+0XC

A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.”

The book under scrutiny is 2010′s “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk” by Dav Pilkey, who has apologized, saying it “contains harmful racial stereotypes” and is “wrong and harmful to my Asian readers.”

The book follows about a pair of friends who travel from 500,001 B.C. to 2222, where they meet a martial arts instructor who teaches them kung fu and they learn principles found in Chinese philosophy.

https://apnews.com/article/dav-pilkey-captain-underpants-entertainment-scholastic-asian-3967162e98a322ae1e121596abf454bc

2 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-03-30 09:17 ID:Heaven

That sucks.

3 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-03-31 01:36 ID:848QT6QS

Meh. White writing about Oriental^W Asian^W East Asian culture tends to be cringe anyway.

4 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-03-31 13:05 ID:r2lJ+0XC

>>3
Isn't anything called "Captain Underpants" a bit cringe by default?

5 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-04-03 22:37 ID:5dnltugT

Society is collapsing

6 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-04-03 23:10 ID:Heaven

>>5
good

7 Name: Unverified Source : 2021-04-04 05:02 ID:Heaven

>>5
Oh the humanity!!

8 Name: Unverified Source : 2022-08-31 19:39 ID:yDV9OHqv

>>4 Yeah but not when you're 9 and it's 1999

9 Name: vegetable : 2022-09-12 19:02 ID:CygOyPbO

not to be racist or anything but asians have been acting more and moar like black people lately

10 Name: sage : 2022-09-16 05:49 ID:Heaven

10get

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