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YouTube faces flak for promoting racism on kids' show

San Francisco, July 24
Google-owned content
sharing app YouTube has once again come under a cloud, this time for
promoting white supremacy by letting a kids' channel show racist content
by portraying "beauty" and "ugly" looks in fair and dark skin shades,
and failing to remove it despite reports.

In an episode of "Dina
And The Prince Story" animated fairytale, the channel called My Pingu
TV, that has over 700,000 subscribers, showed a "fair" angel falling in
love with a human prince and deciding to give up her beauty to be able
to talk to the human.

In the 13-minute video that has stirred the
controversy, the angel transforms from a white, brown-haired cartoon
into a black cartoon with curly hair, Independent.co.uk reported on
Tuesday.

"I could not bear your pain any longer and now I am ugly," the animated angel is heard saying upon her 'transformation'.

The
video has been watched more than 420,000 times and has collected 3,530
likes, 14,318 dislikes and over 2,500 comments on YouTube.

"Bad
reports and five days later the video is still online in many languages.
YouTube and team have no considerations for us. It's a shame," a user
wrote.

"Definitely not letting my kids watch YouTube if it's
really out here brainwashing them to stand white supremacy," another
user wrote.

"This is very offensive. I couldn't bear to think how
my little mixed race granddaughter would feel if she saw this," a
comment read.

In order to get the episode pushed out of the
platform, several people commented and urged others to report the video
just like they have.

"Thousands of dislikes can also be thousands
of flags/reports! Use your voice and make it heard! YouTube has to
listen to reports!" a user added.

This is not the first time that YouTube has been called out for its failure in content filtering.

The
controversy comes just days after Google reached a multimillion-dollar
settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over alleged
violations of children's data privacy laws on YouTube.

In
February, the infamous and fatal "Momo Challenge" that culminates with
self-harm or suicide of the player made its way into children's
programmes like Peppa Pig on YouTube.

The platform has previously
faced a backlash from users as well as advertisers on accusations of
not being careful with exposing minors to objectionable content.