Popeye was racist too. How long before they get cancelled?
Popeye the Sailor Man
Many of the early Popeye cartoons have been edited for racist portrayals of non-white peoples, including people of African descent. For instance, in a 1951 cartoon titled "Popeye's Pappy," Popeye travels to an island to find his father, who is enjoying a pampered life as the ruler of the island's dark-skinned inhabitants, savages with huge lips and bones in their hair who tote spears.
Popeye and his father Pappy end up fighting the island folk and stacking them on a makeshift rack before Pappy hangs a sign from one of their necks that reads "Cheaper by the Dozen," a clear allusion to slavery.
"Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves," a cartoon from 1937, included racist caricatures of Arabs and their culture.
And Popeye cartoons during World War II, like a lot of American media of the time, were also incredibly politically incorrect and racist in depictions of the Japanese. An editorial review of a set of Popeye cartoons from 1941 to 1943 warns: "The war-themed cartoons feature outrageous racial caricatures of the Japanese."
Look no further than "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap."