Tom And Jerry gets racism warning on Amazon

Tom And Jerry provided its young viewers with many valuable lessons that are still useful today, such as the fact that cats are bipedal and have easy access to guns and explosives, while mice are surprisingly resourceful sadists. But certain aspects are not so timeless—such as its occasional use of ethnic and racial stereotypes. And now efforts are being made to ensure a new generation takes these uglier facets of Tom And Jerry in the proper context, without allowing them to sully the fun of animal torture.
Amazon Prime has recently added a disclaimer warning viewers, “Tom and Jerry shorts may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.” While these depictions have involved gags such as characters suffering burns or mud splatters that turn them into black caricatures, as was the style at the time, the most controversial of these has long been Mammy Two Shoes—a stereotypical black maid whose house is typically the scene of Tom and Jerry’s mayhem, often causing her to question why she ever entrusted her most important chores to a cat.