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Although I chuckled, time to be a killjoy!
This image is racist because Tom has east Asian caricature features of the buck teeth and closed eyes, and is in a cartoonishly small bed as east Asian people are often shorter compared to the western average height. My first thought was the the joke was that Tom has to squint, another racist trope, because the poor video card can't handle the high resolution.
My second thought was that he was too big for the bed, which appears to be the actual joke. Sadly it was spoiled because of the overt racism in the chosen image so it just got a chuckle for the real punchline.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsianBuckTeeth
He's sleeping in Jerry's bed. He's meant to look like Jerry. It's not an Asian caricature.
That person is wrong here, but I think they were thinking about other scenes. There's a few of them on youtube if you search Tom and Jerry stereotypes.
Definitely. I won't defend racist caricatures, but this is not one.