Mascots vs.Cartoons. Jokes & The Psycology of it all (12)

I keep loosing really good post today so I'm going to summarize what I had wrote before it was lost. : (
I was saying the reason Cartoons are seen as more socially acceptable means of racism and stereotypes, as a whole. The thing about it is; "There's a time and a place for every thing" and "Content is king" Cartoons are for entertainment. Where as Mascot's are direct representations which could more likely be deriving from hatred, ignorance for deliberate purpose of mockery. Mascots also has a greater chance of being misrepresentative of people. And this is problematic because People do not want to be misrepresented. It's hurtful and more hurtful when it's becomes acceptable.
Whereas we like cartoons because they entertain us, they are comical and cute. They are a escape from our world. (moon parking lot attendant) Often time we love their over exaggerations, with magical plot an extremely silly situations. We even like caricature's to some degree. We get them drawn of ourselves just for fun at amusement parks, NYC and we read political cartoons routinely. They are the norm. Even if they are offensive. We can all identify a Sambo, or Former President Bush as caricatures. You wanna know why? because cartoons are like jokes. What are jokes? Jokes are a socially acceptable way to act out, discuss or even say things that aren't socially acceptable otherwise. Such as; Aids jokes, racial and sexual jokes, Dead baby jokes. These things are socially unacceptable to talk about even disturbing to think of as funny, But we laugh at them all the same and it somehow okay. As long as its said within that invisible sphere of time or acted out on that invisible stage. This is why we tell jokes our minds are physiologically wired that way. Its the ID, The ego and the super ego. our conscious and unsubconcious minds. We have to exspress how we feel but we also want to not dirupt the norms of society. We want to fit in rather than stand out. (Especially not stand out negtivley we get embarassed.)This is why we had minstrel shows in which homosexual antics/jokes, black face and drag, blue collar jokes about high society were performed, because it was socially acceptable to act out on stage but not with society at that time. Example the Oedipus complex; in which a man desires to his mother sexually, this is not okay at all. (hints the plays ending) But its okay within today's society for men to say: "I want a woman just like my mother" or even okay for him to marry and date woman who resembles his mother. So cartoons are more acceptable because our society think they are for children (which originally they weren't). That cartoons messages are usually diluted because of their comedic storyline and antics. Its a inferior/ cute form of racism. We usually have a favorite character(s). But its something about a cartoon that's more forgiving then a Mascot or even a caricature. Maybe its because we view their message as less harmful or that it doesn't come from a place of hatred rather comedy. Plain socially acceptable funny. Where as Mascots say: "This is how we see you."