>>106700522You see, back then animation was just a vehicle for jokes as you said, and nobody had such a millenial concept of relating to a character, you didn't watch a cartoon to get in touch with your feelings, or to learn a hamfisted message, audiences went to see cartoons like Tom and Jerry to laugh at their funny antics and that's it, something like choosing sides would never cross their minds because they were smart enough to know that it's just entertainment that doesn't need to be escapism or a reflection of our world. That's why cartoons have gone full soi nowadays, modern "people" treat them like they are a part of our reality, because they can't accept it's just childish escapism. So they get offended when a character gets the short end of the stick because according to them that character must be a reflection of a real person and therefore he deserves human rights too, you can't make anything that might offend someone either because modern people get their moral lessons from the TV now so a character misbehaving is considered a bad role model instead of a simple funny character. It happens with soccer moms, it happens with SJWs, it happens with the losers who relate to Tom ITT. This is the world that you chose, a world that kills creative freedom because it might hurt someone's feelings. The current state of animation is shit but it's partially shit because of people like you.
