They featured Asians, Latinos, American Indians, people who were obviously not Jewish. These were among the most clever ad campaigns in the history of marketing. Or how about Lucky Charms cereal? For last 50 yrs. this product has been represented by a cartoon caracature of a superstitious silly green leprechaun with an obvious Irish brogue. Have the Hibernians or the Emerald Society ever complain?
The way they talk in the T&J cartoon sounds better than most of them today...That’s the truth.
Banned.
A cure for Ebola may be found before they find a cure for stupidity, socialism and a certain religion designated as peaceful.
I do. I lived in the New York area from 1954 to 1984.
The milieu I grew up in was white ethnic. We told ethnic jokes to each other and enjoyed them. And most of us were Democrats.
A different time.
I know you can buy Amos and Andy online, but it sure would be nice to see it on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, or RedBox.
As for the Little Rascals, I’m sure there are some of those that aren’t allowed either.
For that matter, the George Clooney movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?” probably has a few scenes that could offend.
You know, I even like seeing the “Birth of the Nation” once in a while.
I say put it all out there. Let folks see it. Discuss it. If you show how blacks were supposedly treated terribly, it’s rather enlightening how they are treated today.
You see, this is the real problem. They can’t show the old dated stuff, because then it would be impossible to continue the big lie, that racism is still terribly rampant in this nation.
There are undoubtedly biases, but today they are mostly earned.
In days gone buy, they weren’t.
We live in a different world. We just have folks who wish to game the system.
And whose mouths is the N word flying out of these days? I can assure you not many of them are conservatives and none of them are white. Absolute nonsense.
If someone is really - and I mean really - proud of their ancestry, then they won't feel overly offended by someone else applying a so-called "ethnic slur" to them, unless there is an obvious intent to offend.
Of course, when a certain word - any word - has historically been used and heard only in the context of an attempt to offend, then that word remains "charged" with ethnic animus.
Regards,
Huh...Nope...Not there either. No warning.
I just browsed Tyler Perry titles on Amazon. There’s no “THAT’S RACIST” warning.
There's another one where Porky is a fireman with similar scenarios. When the kids were young, I picked up a couple of handfuls of old VHS cartoon tapes from the local video rental store that was going out of business. I just chuckled when I saw these. Different time, different place....
If anything in a Tom and Jerry cartoon offends you, I would suggest that you have some serious mental health issues that you need to work on...