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> If someone made a villainous fu manchu character people would rightly protest it as intolerable.

Asian stereotypes in media is pretty well tolerated.

it's been toned down enormously. Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's as Mr Yunioshi for instance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3gdUrIC4Q) this used to be common. The Flintstones, for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8lGDLARME ... it was bad ... really bad.

If something like this was made today and the people somehow ended up in court over it, I'd probably think "well, they saw that coming"