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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Josh Marshall

      1. @joshtpm's noble campaign to reclaim Kermit in the age of Pepe got me thinking about anthropomorphism & racismhttps://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/782762792344576000 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
      I feel like the rest of us need to get behind a canonical pluralism frog to turn back the tide, re-appropriate what's been lost. pic.twitter.com/bjXTzjR56c
      22 replies 148 retweets 295 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. For at least 150 years (and arguably much longer) anthropomorphic stories have been a way of doing allegories about racism.

      2 replies 24 retweets 70 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      3. I think animals as metaphors for different ethnicities is ancient (it's hardly an accident that Aesop was a slave).

      7 replies 21 retweets 80 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      4. But for our purposes, tradition begins with stories of Br'er Rabbit (codified by J.C. Harris, but based on African-American lore)

      3 replies 12 retweets 57 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      5. In late 19th century and early 20th century popular culture, "cute" cartoony animals became ways register racial & ethnic difference.

      5 replies 18 retweets 43 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016

      6. Felix the Cat and Mickey Mouse in particular clearly owed much to minstrel show representations of blacks.pic.twitter.com/2gE70P7G3v

      10:10 PM - 2 Oct 2016
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      • Precious Foxcat Wisdom 💙🦊🐱💙 ‘ xoxo b. insights Your fave is problematic BenjaminCraft-Rendon Meanwhile, in Halifax … Claire Panke dr jiggly nubbins
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          7. John Updike in his essay collection More Matter had some good thoughts on the blackness of Mickey Mouse.pic.twitter.com/j6loYQV83i

          4 replies 32 retweets 106 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2016
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          8. Disney was much influenced by George Herriman, a light-skinned African American who passed for white & did racial allegories in Krazy Kat

          3 replies 15 retweets 65 likes
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        1. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 2 Oct 2016
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