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Tom & Jerry will have trigger warnings on Amazon
10-02-2014, 12:19 PM
As a white Southerner, I demand trigger warnings for
Foghorn Leghorn, Huckleberry Hound and The Hillbilly Bears
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10-02-2014, 08:28 PM
I miss watching speedy gonzalez. It would be hilarious if they did a new one. The shitstorm that would follow would be worth it.
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10-03-2014, 06:30 PM
Racism?
I remember watching those cartoons and laughing at some cultural stuff because it's actually true.
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10-03-2014, 06:40 PM
Well all I know is, I refuse to buy Dumbo until they recolour the crows with bright neon colours and call them Parakeets or something. I don't care if it makes sense, I'm just tired of being triggered. I have more PTSD than an Iraqi war vet.
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Tom & Jerry will have trigger warnings on Amazon
10-03-2014, 09:31 PM
I must be retarded because I don't see anything racist about any of the above posted video clips at all.
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Tom & Jerry will have trigger warnings on Amazon
10-03-2014, 10:56 PM
Yeah Tom and Jerry was racist, but then again it was from the 40s and 50s so it is what it is. This is the Black mammy image portrayed here.
^^^^This one showing Black Africans as savages, and cannibalistic and uncivilized living in the jungle somewhere. (Majority of Africa is actually grassland).
At the same time though, its not fair to throw the warnings exclusively on Tom and Jerry. I feel they should do the same to Bugs bunny since I think they far more racist with their cartoons like this:
or this:
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10-04-2014, 12:23 PM
I just look at the characters and their actions, not at their color.
Some people try to hamsterize "racism" so much that they become racist themselves.
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Tom & Jerry will have trigger warnings on Amazon
10-05-2014, 04:00 AM
lol I think Midwest has me beat, but...
I remember seeing this as a kid (no idea where my parents found such an old cartoon)
Never thought much of it
at the 1:33 mark
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10-05-2014, 04:19 AM
"Stereotypes are funny because they're true."
That's the whole point of comedy. Comedy is an outlet to vent, say whatever the fuck you feel like, laugh about it, and move on with life. It's a chance to break free of polite company and make a few fart and shit jokes, or laugh at the opposite sex.
The alternative to this is censorship. And with censorship comes a rise in tension and anger that naturally comes from squashing the human spirit. Being easily offended and insisting on political correctness will invariably lead to censorship.
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10-05-2014, 05:00 AM
"Tom and Jerry" are just the beginning. I have an idea how we could profit from this.
We should start a Web site called The Political Corrector -- Righting the Wrongs of American Culture.
On the site, you could basically "deconstruct" pretty much everything as being morally transgressive because it's politically incorrect in some way -- from Ben Franklin to Elvis to "Leave it to Beaver" to "Dallas" to the boy bands of the late '90s. This would be moralizing of the highest order, making even the most respected of preachers look like filthy sinners.
For us, this would be a parody site. For the social justice crowd, it would be like the bible.
Racism and sexism are now pretty much in the eye of the beholder and they're now retroactive...so it's open season on anyone and everyone! Everything goes! Everyone is guilty in some way. Let's get them. I'll bet we could get sponsors on board through inducing guilt: "Not buying an ad on our site? So you SUPPORT RACISM AND SEXISM THEN?!!! ALERT NBC!!!!!!"
It could almost be like...hmmm, what's the phrase I'm looking for? That's right -- a witch hunt.
What could be more American than that?
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10-05-2014, 05:44 AM
Can someone please provide a link to the actual site? So far, all we have are photographs.
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Tom & Jerry will have trigger warnings on Amazon
10-07-2014, 10:01 PM
I just saw an ad on TV for a new ABC Family Channel show about two aging careerist lesbian matrons. ABC fucking FAMILY! I bet people in the future will look at this era as utter garbage.