Although I don't watch a lot of TV I do now and again succumb to old gems like Simpsons/Family guy/Futurama from late 90s/early 2000s.

I actually thought of this very thing a couple years ago when watching an old episode of Futurama. Basically Bender was going to be written off a wrestling show he was on, so they completely changed his persona from 'Bender the offender' to a cross dressing sissy tranny named 'The Gender Bender' and all the humorous tropes that go with it.






I remember watching this, chuckling, and thinking how in a short decade you went from openly being able to mock these sort of things, to having a mob at your door demanding trial by fire because you showed a woman/minority/tranny who wasn't the best at everything ever.

This thread has turned into a gold mine of nostalgia. Where's my f'ing time machine. And the J.Peterson interview - that interviewer had no clue what to do with the questions posed, it's painful to watch; he was completely outmatched and JP knew it. His facial expressions are full of boredom and derision. And JP is right: high heels serve no other purpose. They are completely useless in any other capacity except to accentuate a woman's figure. The only woman I've ever seen that could still move effortlessly in heels was Tina Turner.

SOUTH PARK

Zero chance in hell this would ever happen in today's world.

All in the Family would never see the light of day, that's for sure:











And Klinger from M*A*S*H would be "problematic" now too:

I have actual memories of a world in which the big worry among adults was whether the name of the rock band KISS stood for "Knights In Satan's Service."

And yet no one seemed to notice (or care) that one of the most popular songs on one of their platinum-selling albums was a lustful ode to an underage girl. Sample lyric:

"I don't usually say things like this to girls your age
But when I saw you coming out of the school that day
That day I knew, I knew
I've got to have you, I've got to have you
She's' been around, but she's young and clean..."

Chris Lilley was a popular comedian in Australia up until very recently, who despite being a white male got away with parodying nearly every demographic group (even donning black face to impersonate an African-American rapper). A couple of examples:

Parodying upper middle class white girls who virtue signal (the character sponsored numerous African children so that she could win 'Australian of the Year' and goes nuts when they all die in a flood because she thinks it jeopardises her chances of winning):






Parodying the Asian 'tiger mother':

From what I've gathered if you posted any of those "racist" videos on this very forum as little as 3 or 4 years ago then you'd be instabanned.

Every group has their preferred targets and their personal triggers.

The rules used to be "whatever makes you laugh".



Then it was "whatever makes you laugh, except that.



Then everyone decided "well if they get their exemption then I get my exemption". Everyone except you-know-who of course.

People like to pretend that their own personal protections against free speech are for the greater good of society but the dirty little reality of the matter is that the ability to censor people from making fun of you is a powerful status symbol that used to be reserved for nobility and royalty. Freedom of speech was supposed to curb that and for a long time nobody was beyond ridicule, even (or especially) the President of the most powerful nation on earth. But once you protect one group from ridicule then it's no surprise that everyone else wants their own little emotional fiefdom where they can also be treated with the deference once afforded to the aristocracy.

Just one of a thousand reasons that you can't put one of these(*) next to "Freedom of speech". The (*) will always metastasize as predictably and fatally as cancer.

Personally I've always loved wartime cartoons.






God knows what kind of pathetic propaganda we'd be faced with if we went to war with a non-white nation these days.

"They're better than you, but please kill them anyway", I'm guessing.

This was one of my favorite movies in middle school, which looking back was basically 90 minutes of Chris Tucker making fun of Asians with middle school quality jokes. Not even black people can get away with saying this stuff in 2019. Very cringe:

On the upside Westerners are getting a sense of what Year Zero actually means.

The Khmer Rouge did it with machine guns and death camps. Zuckerberg is going to do it with an algorithm and the press of a button.

Keep those old DVDs, a spare player and a "dumb" TV. One day your kids are going to be amazed at the shit you were allowed to watch.

Animal House - not a hope would it be made today.

The below scene isn't especially edgy, just fun.

Quote: (02-20-2019 04:30 AM)questor70 Wrote:  

It seems like the cultural demarcation line started maybe 10 years ago and then broadens bigtime right after Trump is elected.

Good thread, and I'm surprised some of these clips are still on youtube, only a matter of time. But thought I'd quickly address this sentence. For Britain at least, ten years ago I was putting stuff on facebook about immigration, Islam etc that I wouldn't dare do today. Not because I'd be arrested, but because people are so much more politicised these days. Back then I was just seen as a bit of a kook, what with my Alex Jones docs and whatnot, now I'd be socially ostracised. I think it got completely weird around 2014 - that was when "SJW" became a term I believe. You can track the cornerstones by browsing older threads from the early days of the forum - very apolitical with the exception of feminism, but even that was only light critique because it wasn't the monster it is today.

Needless to say, in 2017 I deleted almost every FB post I'd ever made, including ones on other people's 'walls' (it took several evenings) — though they'll be in a digital vault somewhat I'm sure.

This is pretty damn funny, and has been featured on the forum a few times. It's from 2006.






Now it would have Guardian critqiues about toxic masculine entitlement etc. The utterly humourless mainstream society we have today is depressing. Read the comments from say 7 years ago and compare to the ones from within the last 2. Incredibly irritating.

"Maybe stop expecting sex for favors and understand that it happens between people who like each other(emphasis on each other)?"

"r/niceguys in a shell"

"Me every time I hear the 2 magic words I never want to hear from a girl." ... reply: "What words? "small penis"?"

Most of the annoying comments are men white knighting against other men saying that the video was cathartic, albeit lightheartedly.

As I said in my former post, everyone (SJW NPCs) completely opinionated, joyless, and politicised.

Quote: (02-22-2019 08:59 AM)Eddie Winslow Wrote:  

This was one of my favorite movies in middle school, which looking back was basically 90 minutes of Chris Tucker making fun of Asians with middle school quality jokes. Not even black people can get away with saying this stuff in 2019.

Not to mention that the Rush Hour movies were led by Brett Ratner who has been #MeToo'd.

Quote: (02-22-2019 10:50 AM)3extra Wrote:  

Animal House

Not just that scene. The entire Blues Brothers concept (and blue-eyed soul in general) can be accused of cultural appropriation.

2002:






At the time the American Pie and Superbad like comedies (not all great to be fair) were all ago for a decade, now nothing!

The next video isn't SJW kryptonite, but its hilarious and we don't see its like anymore, light hearted and yet cutting:

Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman

Quote: (02-20-2019 10:16 PM)Seadog Wrote:  

Although I don't watch a lot of TV I do now and again succumb to old gems like Simpsons/Family guy/Futurama from late 90s/early 2000s.

I actually thought of this very thing a couple years ago when watching an old episode of Futurama. Basically Bender was going to be written off a wrestling show he was on, so they completely changed his persona from 'Bender the offender' to a cross dressing sissy tranny named 'The Gender Bender' and all the humorous tropes that go with it.

I remember watching this, chuckling, and thinking how in a short decade you went from openly being able to mock these sort of things, to having a mob at your door demanding trial by fire because you showed a woman/minority/tranny who wasn't the best at everything ever.

Same thought occured to me earlier. You don't even have to look that far back to get to a world where the insanity wasn't even on the same level. Besides the shows you've mentioned, things like Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and the GEICO caveman ads, South Park, and plenty of things already named openly mocked today's mainstream leftist ideas as whacko.

Even then (late 90s) being part of a family was generally viewed as a good thing and the rot was still slowly spreading out from the record labels into the rest of society.

Quote: (02-20-2019 10:16 PM)Seadog Wrote:  

Although I don't watch a lot of TV I do now and again succumb to old gems like Simpsons/Family guy/Futurama from late 90s/early 2000s.

I actually thought of this very thing a couple years ago when watching an old episode of Futurama. Basically Bender was going to be written off a wrestling show he was on, so they completely changed his persona from 'Bender the offender' to a cross dressing sissy tranny named 'The Gender Bender' and all the humorous tropes that go with it.

I remember watching this, chuckling, and thinking how in a short decade you went from openly being able to mock these sort of things, to having a mob at your door demanding trial by fire because you showed a woman/minority/tranny who wasn't the best at everything ever.

Same thought occured to me earlier. You don't even have to look that far back to get to a world where the insanity wasn't even on the same level. Besides the shows you've mentioned, things like Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and the GEICO caveman ads, South Park, and plenty of things already named openly mocked today's mainstream leftist ideas as whacko.

Even then (late 90s) being part of a family was generally viewed as a good thing and the rot was still slowly spreading out from the record labels into the rest of society.

Quote: (02-20-2019 05:27 PM)Uprising Wrote:  

Blacks are the most over represented racial group in the American media. If you only watched the media, you would think blacks make up at least 50% of the population when in reality, they are only 13% of the population.

It's basically not allowed to have a movie or a TV show with at least one black person in it. I have no qualms about having media outlets produce content with 100% of blacks, Asians or hispanics. Everybody should have something that they can relate to.

My only gripe is, it's also ok to produce content with 100% of whites in it. Whatever. At least they haven't scrubbed the classics from existence, although I'm sure that will come over time.

Don't forget, the vast majority of "whites" in media are really Jews.

Ever notice how rare it is to have a commercial with 2 white people (man and woman) as a couple? It's almost always interracial or gay.

Quote: (02-23-2019 09:09 PM)Easy_C Wrote:  

Quote: (02-20-2019 10:16 PM)Seadog Wrote:  

Although I don't watch a lot of TV I do now and again succumb to old gems like Simpsons/Family guy/Futurama from late 90s/early 2000s.

I actually thought of this very thing a couple years ago when watching an old episode of Futurama. Basically Bender was going to be written off a wrestling show he was on, so they completely changed his persona from 'Bender the offender' to a cross dressing sissy tranny named 'The Gender Bender' and all the humorous tropes that go with it.

I remember watching this, chuckling, and thinking how in a short decade you went from openly being able to mock these sort of things, to having a mob at your door demanding trial by fire because you showed a woman/minority/tranny who wasn't the best at everything ever.

Same thought occured to me earlier. You don't even have to look that far back to get to a world where the insanity wasn't even on the same level. Besides the shows you've mentioned, things like Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and the GEICO caveman ads, South Park, and plenty of things already named openly mocked today's mainstream leftist ideas as whacko.

Even then (late 90s) being part of a family was generally viewed as a good thing and the rot was still slowly spreading out from the record labels into the rest of society.

I can't help but see the early levels of the brainwashing in that clip.

On the surface it's making fun of people who violate the sexual social norm: a man dressing in pink, a woman wearing army boots. But they're not the butt of the joke. The butt of the joke is the wrestling audience, who are so worked up over a costume that they're screaming for blood. It's implied that blue collar America is too stupid to explain why Bender dressing in pink is upsetting - that they really don't have a good reason for it, it's just blind prejudice - there's nothing wrong with him being the Gender Bender, the 'evil' in this situation is the cynical corporation using gays as a punching bag to rile up the dumb masses.

(Read: the evil republicans riling up the dumb masses over Muh Bible to secure a permanent voting block.)

Okay, so what's the alternative? What do I want to see? Picking on gays and trannies as the butts of every joke? No, that's just an earlier step in the process. You have to smash both sides of the Hegelian dialectic to get out of it, not pine for the previous step.

I miss our cutlure's ability to incorporate those who don't fit perfectly into norms. These days, cultural historians obsess over whether Leonardo DaVinci was gay, or whom Oscar Wilde was sleeping with; how about admiration and acknowledgement of the dandy? It's an interesting phenomenon, seeing a man pay as much attention to his wardrobe as a woman, but in a distinctly masculine manner. This is a consistent male archetype, throughout history, that got rejected and pushed to the fringes in cookie-cutter 1950s society. Then, by pushing them to the fringe they became the reactionary force to the mainstream (thesis, antithesis, synthesis); they became the dispersed and hard-to-find rebels, attacking the complacent and land-locked empire. Stonewall riots, gay rights, et cetera. Now we're entering the synthesis stage, and it turns out it's 8 year old kids in drag.

Give me Oscar Wilde. Give me a culture that sees the light of God in every human being, no matter how weird or atypical they are. Give me a world where a bisexual man can write a heart-rending story about Christ's sacrifice. Get me away from this land of homogeneity, lifestyle boxes, and forced compliance with the current agenda. Let modernism die.

Quote: (02-24-2019 01:43 AM)Captainstabbin Wrote:  

Quote: (02-20-2019 05:27 PM)Uprising Wrote:  

Blacks are the most over represented racial group in the American media. If you only watched the media, you would think blacks make up at least 50% of the population when in reality, they are only 13% of the population.

It's basically not allowed to have a movie or a TV show with at least one black person in it. I have no qualms about having media outlets produce content with 100% of blacks, Asians or hispanics. Everybody should have something that they can relate to.

My only gripe is, it's also ok to produce content with 100% of whites in it. Whatever. At least they haven't scrubbed the classics from existence, although I'm sure that will come over time.

Don't forget, the vast majority of "whites" in media are really Jews.

Ever notice how rare it is to have a commercial with 2 white people (man and woman) as a couple? It's almost always interracial or gay.

They usually make the white people gay. It's pretty common to see a white sodomite or two of them together.

Quote: (02-24-2019 03:49 PM)Aurini Wrote:  

Now we're entering the synthesis stage

I don't think this is synthesis. Synthesis is supposed to be a resoultion where everyone is more or less satisfied with the state of affairs, despite various compromises. I think it's antithesis, or more appropriately, the stage in Animal Farm where the animals overturn the humans and then merely become the new oppressors. SJWs don't want justice. They want revenge in the form of collective punishment.

The British 70s comedy Mind Your Language, was about an English language school and made fun of all of the international students. This type of scene could never be made these days:

Quote: (02-20-2019 06:11 PM)Heuristics Wrote:  

Scene from Crocodille Dundee that had me rolling in laughter when he was trying to figure out if it was a tranny.

God bless whoever made that film. It would not be made today.

I watched that a few days ago actually, great film. I found myself laughing heartily without holding back.

It's actually a very good satire on 80s yuppie culture. The traditional (white) rural dude wins out over the smarmy, sophisticated, but insincere New Yorker. Rich white girl choosing a traditional white man, who looks to be quite a lot older (edit: 18 years older in real life!). Did you know that the actors actually became a couple and had a kid together?

Very subversive.

Here’s a few that wouldn’t get aired today: