Smurfs cartoons packed with fascism and racism says French educator

The well-known show “The Smurfs” was accused by a French instructor for promoting racial discrimination and fascism. Antoine Bueno, an instructor at a prominent school in Paris, recently opined the main characters in “The Smurfs” live under and encourage authoritarian rule and improper stereotypes.

How Papa Smurf correlates with Stalin

The Telegraph reports that Antoine Bueno is an educator at the political sciences school in Paris, the Sciences Po. Many know him as the male that made accusations that “The Smurfs” is really a comic strip about fascism and anti-Semitism. The Smurfs debuted as a comic strip in 1958, written by Belgian comic strip artist Peyo. The comic strip was written by Peyo, or Pierre Culliford, wrote the Smurfs comics until 1992 when he passed away and it was taken over by his son Thierry Culliford who has been writing them ever since. The show in America made by Hanna-Barbera is located off the strip. It is fairly close to the same thing. The overtones in the series are bad according to Antoine Bueno. Bueno believes that Papa Smurf runs the village with a mustache and complete authority, just like the Soviet Union was run by Josef Stalin.

The anti-Semitic stereotypes

Bueno also alleges the chief villain in the Smurf’s world, the wizard Gargamel, is a caricature of anti-Semitic stereotypes. He claims that Jews were stereotypes by the Nazis and others just like he is with his hooked nose, crooked posture and obsession with gold. He also alleges that Smurfette, the lone female in the series, is similar to the perfect Aryan female under the tenets of the Nazi party. According to Bueno, the Smurfs, or “Les Schtroumpfs,” aren’t trying to be hateful in any way. He just says these themes display throughout the comic. Culliford explained that he read Bueno’s critique. It is supposedly very amusing. In America in 2011, a live action Smurfs film will be released.

Claims of other characters

There have been characters in the past to be criticized for their themes. Disney movies have accusations of racial discrimination all the time. This happens regularly over the years. Cracked.com explained that “Dumbo” has cows in it stereotyped as African Americans while “Peter Pan” and “Aladdin” have Native American and Arab racism in them all the time.

Disney Racial discrimination shown

Citations

The Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8554973/The-Smurfs-are-anti-Semitic-and-racist.html

Cracked.com

cracked.com/article_15677_the-9-most-racist-disney-characters.html