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* ''[[Any Bonds Today?]]'', a 1942 propaganda film commissioned by the United States Department of the Treasury to Warner Bros., would later be known for its [[Values Dissonance]] in the form of Bugs Bunny donning a blackface than the film encouraging Americans at the time to buy war bonds and contribute to the Allied military effort.
* Media coverage of the 2019 Spanish animated feature ''[[Elcano & Magallanes: First Trip Around the World]]'' was skewed more towards the outrage it generated when Filipinos took umbrage over its depiction of [[Lapu-Lapu]] and the Battle of Mactan. [[Misplaced Nationalism]] ensued when Filipinos, whose elementary school textbook knowledge of their country's history is [[The Theme Park Version|a little distorted]] to say the least, took to social media and bashed the living daylights out of the film...
** ...except that most of the outrage came from those who [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch|haven't even watched the whole film yet]] and were motivated more by blind patriotism and the [[GIFT|typical keyboard-warrior mentality]] than sincere and level-headed perception of history. Said Filipinos are under the impression that Lapu-Lapu fought for the Philippines as a whole as the first to resist colonial rule, something [[Rodrigo Duterte]] played up and over-hyped in a statement; historians and scholars disagree with this, as the Philippines as we know it is a relatively recent concept, and the archipelago was at the time made up of mostly unconnected tribal polities who
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