I read old Sjors & Sjimmie comics from my dad when I was a kid in the 90s. It's a classic "two boys have adventures" type of comic. Here's how the old comics lo

I read old Sjors & Sjimmie comics from my dad when I was a kid in the 90s. It's a classic "two boys have adventures" type of comic. Here's how the old comics looked: https://images.poms.omroep.nl/image/s750/784486.jpg https://images.poms.omroep.nl/image/s750/784486.jpg Sjimmie (the black kid) also spoke in broken Dutch, and was generally the stupid one. Even as a 10 year old I recognized it was pretty racist, because I grew up in an environment where this sort of thing is frowned upon. In the end you can only know about racism if you actually know what it looks like, up close, and without filter. When is too young "too young" for this? I don't know, but I think you're giving children too little credit; they're not entirely stupid. People in the past didn't become racist because of a few books or comics, they became racist due to the general culture at the time, and stuff like this is more a consequence of that than a cause. (The comic was revamped in the 70s to not be racist by the way, and these new comics were very popular in the 80s and 90s, but the originals were never revised or updated: they just made new, better, non-racist ones.)