An anthropology professor attacked the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants, writing in an academic journal that the show whitewashes “violent American military activities.”

Holly Barker, an anthropology professor at the University of Washington, opined that the animated television show minimizes the loss of the Bikini Atoll, an actual place in the Marshall Islands, to the Marshallese people, because it glosses over America’s use of the atoll to test nuclear weapons.