not like you'd be missing much if you skipped t & j honestly :yeshrug
not like you'd be missing much if you skipped t & j honestly :yeshrug
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WB has been putting these warnings on all their classic cartoon collections (Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Popeye) since forever.
BBC & HuffPo acting like this is some new thing they just discovered because they read some tweets. (http://i.imgur.com/D2YIXC1.png)
Speedy Gonzales has me split. On one hand he's a clear caricature, but I remember loving and watching him a lot as a kid
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Speedy Gonzales has me split. On one hand he's a clear caricature, but I remember loving and watching him a lot as a kid
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That episode where Speedy Gonzalez raced the Road Runner. :lawd Better than the Flash racing Superman
The thing about speedy is that Mexicans apparently love him. I know it's a caricature but goddamit I love speedy.
They don't ever show The Little Rascals on TV because of stuff like this, even though it was the first mainstream theatrical shorts series to show black and white kids playing together and treating each other as equals (a lot of times even living together). Same thing for Amos 'n' Andy radio shows (although that's way more understandable because the dudes doing the voicework were white, and sometimes performed in blackface in films and such). But there were black doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc. in the show, and all of those characters were played very straight. It was only the main characters who were portrayed as idiots - but not because they were black. Having listened to a bunch of the shows, I've only heard their race mentioned in any way at all maybe a handful of times. If you went into it blind and listened to a random episode without knowing any of the history, you might think they were just a couple of dumb Southerners. Context, intent, etc.
They don't ever show The Little Rascals on TV because of stuff like this, even though it was the first mainstream theatrical shorts series to show black and white kids playing together and treating each other as equals (a lot of times even living together). Same thing for Amos 'n' Andy radio shows (although that's way more understandable because the dudes doing the voicework were white, and sometimes performed in blackface in films and such). But there were black doctors, lawyers, businessmen, etc. in the show, and all of those characters were played very straight. It was only the main characters who were portrayed as idiots - but not because they were black. Having listened to a bunch of the shows, I've only heard their race mentioned in any way at all maybe a handful of times. If you went into it blind and listened to a random episode without knowing any of the history, you might think they were just a couple of dumb Southerners. Context, intent, etc.
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(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DerFuehrersFace_5380.jpg)haha maybe 5 months ago I was chillin with my son* and popped on some 3 hour youtube classic cartoon collection and lo this episode was one of them. now the particulars of the axis/allied conflict were lost on my son, so when donald-hitler did his sieg heil my son bolted up and did the same. :-\
(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DerFuehrersFace_5380.jpg)haha maybe 5 months ago I was chillin with my son* and popped on some 3 hour youtube classic cartoon collection and lo this episode was one of them. now the particulars of the axis/allied conflict were lost on my son, so when donald-hitler did his sieg heil my son bolted up and did the same. :-\
Thus was the conclusion of our watching of 3 hour youtube classic cartoon collection :lol
*my blonde, blue-eyed son
(http://i.imgur.com/KBT4E7k.jpg)a little work in photoshop and we have our new :rejoice
(http://i.imgur.com/KBT4E7k.jpg)a little work in photoshop and we have our new :rejoice
we should really just replace all of our coli emotes with old racist cartoon faces.
(http://i.imgur.com/KBT4E7k.jpg)was waiting for this
Well it's true. We aren't your friends :ufup
A lot of these old cartoons got trimmed or "deleted" back in the 80's and 90's, WB's current policy is to present them as-is with a trigger warning so you can decide for yourself. I prefer the latter.Areopagitica and What is Enlightenment validated :miltonumad: :kantumad:
And then there's this WWII-era Popeye cartoon:
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Children's TV channel Boomerang is to edit scenes from Tom and Jerry cartoons where characters are shown smoking.
The move follows an investigation by media watchdog Ofcom into a viewer's complaint that the vintage animations were not appropriate for young viewers.
The watchdog recognised the "historic" cartoons were made at a time "when smoking was more generally accepted".
However, Boomerang will only edit those cartoons where smoking appears to be "condoned, acceptable or glamorised".
"If we are going to start censoring jokes because people are offended, like the whole Mr. Magoo controversy where blind people were offended, name me a cartoon character that doesn't offend someone," Beck said.
"Bugs Bunny will be attacked because he is from Brooklyn. The Brooklyn people don't like him making fun of their accent," he said. "The NRA will be against Elmer Fudd because he is a bad hunter," he added.
Beck noted that Fudd's depiction, as a redneck hunter with a speech impediment has not been censored, despite being possibly offensive to some. "Unfortunately, at the moment, it's okay to make fun of white guys. You can do anything you want to white guys," he said.
Half a century before Facebook’s 57 genders, Warner Brothers was laying the groundwork.
It’s not an isolated example of progressive themes in Looney Tunes. “Hillbilly Hare” contains a wealth of sociological insight. The main characters are two rural archetypes mired in poverty, wandering the backwoods shoeless, engaged in a pointless blood feud. You could almost call it “What’s the Matter with the Ozarks,” for instead of concentrating their enmity against the 1 percent that has exploited their labor and resources, they are pitted against each other in a pointless struggle.
Into this world comes Bugs, who draws their attention by dressing up as a seductive female rabbit — a transgressive statement that manages to lampoon heteronormative behavior (transgender Bugs feigns interest in the males) and reinforces the worst sort of cross-dressing stereotypes, as female-identified Bugs is all lipstick and hip-cocking sashay exaggeration. But for the time it was groundbreaking. To a youth who sat in the theater in 1948 it may have said, Yes, it is possible to break the confines of biological gender, and to do so with such confidence and style that people who would otherwise fricassee you for supper would follow your every suggestion.
And what a suggestion! In a hilarious set piece, Bugs calls a square-dance tune whose instructions aren’t the usual do-si-do, bow-to-your-left, but consist entirely of commands to inflict escalating levels of retributive violence. The men, socially and culturally conditioned to follow any command the square-dance caller makes, are not only helpless to assert their own will, they end up dancing with each other. This redefines the courtship ritual of the dance — a means of channeling and controlling sexual energy — into a fiercely homoerotic ballet. Watch:
“Hit ’im again, the critter ain’t dead.” It’s safe to assume Bugs is talking about the stifling hand of religious intolerance and centuries of marriage inequality. With a tidy couplet he brushes away the pope’s objections: Promenade like a bride and groom, he calls, and that they do.
The cartoons are full of political messages — Speedy Gonzales the Undocumented Mouse, the endangered Road Runner escaping the depredations of industrialized warfare. It is unfair to regard their messages as macabre, when the underlying lessons of Warner Brothers cartoons contain remarkably progressive insights into human sexuality and economic interactions. Sometimes the messages are subtle, as with Tweety Bird; it lived in a gilded cage, pursued by a hungry, homeless cat who lacked the class consciousness to realize that Tweety’s owner — a symbol of inherited wealth who did not work but lived off the accumulation of capital — was the real enemy. But there are impermissible elements. The regrettable adventures of Pepé Le Pew combine male privilege with miscegenation panic — the female skunk is actually a cat, zut alors — and xenophobic attitudes toward Gallic hygiene. These should be banned, or at least preceded by a trigger warning.:rofl
As long as we’re at it, people who have been mauled by large feral cats might want a Tigger Warning before viewing some Winnie the Pooh cartoons. Piglet is also offensive to some cultures. Eeyore does tend to minimize the ravages of depression. When you think about it, Christopher Robin probably grew up to be a property developer, subdividing the Hundred Acre Wood for cul-de-sac housing, forgetting entirely the lessons Pooh taught him about the heedless pursuit of honey.
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How can you even be 'anti-PC' mad about this? These are pretty much 100% racial caricatures intended to mock colored people?
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