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Should old cartoons directed at children be censored before being shown on television?

My children were watching The Flinstones. In the cartoon Fred had a job and one of the perks of the job was that he was given a “slave boy”. That was the term used and that was how this character was introduced. I would like to note that the character was Cacasian. The cartoon was on during a ‘child friendly’ time slot on a cartoon station. The cartoon was created in 1965. Should this cartoon have been shown and if not, should stations be fined for showing such things or is that too ‘police state’ like?

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