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Yeah, it's another possibility!
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
We’ll be burning books next, just like Hitler did!
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All those white sex-slaves being ensnared and sent to Hong Kong
Julie Andrews will soon be a pariah
History isn't being cancelled. All the information is there should you be inclined to look for it. In fact never has so much history been so accessible by so many.
There are museums dedicated to slavery now, we don't need statues of slave traders looking down on us.
I think it's undeniable that many popular drama shows are rewriting history in order to fit in with the latest PC ideology. We have people from the African diaspora, for example, populating the the aristocratic parlour rooms of Georgian England in Bridgerton, openly gay actors and directors winning awards in the 1950s in Netflix's Hollywood, and medieval maidens kicking well-muscled male ass in shows like The Last Kingdom. And anything that runs afoul of the prevailing wisdom is mauled upon arrival. Of course, fiction is part fantasy, but my preference is for at least a reasonable illusion of reality. Otherwise, I can't take the action seriously.
I also think it's absurd and destructive to put movies from bygone eras under the hawkeye scrutiny of modern PC standards. What about all those films that depict women as housewives? Do little girls need protecting from them or run the risk of losing all ambition in favour of a pinny and a new Hoover? And when James Cagney shoves a grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face for nagging, will we settle for nothing less than that she punches his lights out? Will our fingers begin to twitch at the obvious racial supremacy of Bogie when he commands, "Play it again, Sham"? I think any balanced viewer from any race, gender or creed can recognize that a film can still be a good film even if it does not obediently conform to the rules by which we now abide.
And it was you that used the word offence. In brackets because it's not offensive to you so it's not really offensive.
But that's not what they're doing in re-certifying or giving audience warnings on older films. It's not rewriting history, it's reappraising historical attitudes and norms from a modern perspective. Everyone else in the world does not have to conform to your perspective. These changes are not an attack on you. Young people have grown up with "modern PC standards" and "the latest PC ideology". For them, the language and social norms of 50 or 60 years ago may require some prior explanation... or warning.
Talking about getting off the Ground my other idea for a show "The Hottentot Astronaut" would be cancelled too..
All in the name of Political Correctness..
I mean Who are the real Fascists..?
Old Ron was really against removing American Civil War statues of Slavery supporters but in favour of censoring the abuse black people (and others) suffered.
He’s certainly not a good role model for a censorship argument: he’s so biased even a dead and decomposed non sentient single cell organism could see it.
But Timcito still hasn’t even come close to explaining how a reclassification of a film that remains as available as it was before the reclassification is cancelling it.
We know why: he can’t, because it isn’t.
I’m wondering if he has the good grace to admit it.
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It does make me laugh when I spot a warning before some terrible 70s sit-com that it contains language and attitudes of the time. No shit Sherlock! Can't say I get enraged about it though.
Of course, in a few decades current attitudes will have changed. I often wonder what things are currently acceptable that will be verboten by the time I die?
Now think like a kid who has never seen someone being treated differently because of skin colour / sexuality etc as comedy (well crafted drama is obviously different). That generates a massive WTF moment.
I see it in my kids generation (18-21). Person A points and says "That's the person I went on a date with"... Person B says "The guy or the girl?"...
They just find it inconceivable that someone might actually be beaten and murdered for their sexuality.
I'm thrilled they are outraged by what happened before. It gives me hope.
I don't think warnings are a bad thing in any way. It is a warning of something outside of personal experience that might be frightening / disgusting / / upsetting / whatever... when I did Inquest Work do you think I wouldn't give a warning before showing someone photos from a fatal accident? To label all the possibilities as a warning about being "offensive" is nonsense. Upsetting is a better description. Those warnings have been on crime programs for decades, why not on others that can cause similar reactions? Swearing warnings have been on TV for some films for even longer. When "Primary Colours" was first shown on C4 they gave a "This contains the worst swear words in English, starting from the first minute in the film...." then they had an advert, and then repeated the warning again! People still wrote in and complained about the language!
Having a warning does nothing for or against those who don't need the warning, and just might be really important for those that need a warning. A little empathy goes a long way.
Overall though - I find it amazing that some people are more enraged by a warning than about the film / tv show itself. They've got it backwards.
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It's footage of lots of differently-abled kids smiling brightly at the camera while the narrator talks about how society is best served by putting them to sleep - you realise every child you see there happily smiling was murdered.
It's never possible to overstate just how horrible and evil the Nazis were - and any comparison on any level between changing Mary Poppins to a fucking PG and fascism... doesn't really hold any water at all.
The true slippery slope isn't more Disney classics being taken off the list for somebody's school trip, it's...
Normalisation of prejudice through stereotyping and name-calling.
Action of prejudice through sub-conscious bias.
Action of prejudice through conscious decision.
Dislike of the other in society.
Action against the other in society.
Violence against the other in society.
Removal of the other from society through forced migration.
Genocide.
Think that's extreme? Germany went from a peaceful democracy to a hellhole in about three years.
Perhaps hanging on to prejudice from the past, however innocent, because we don't want anything to ever change is just not worth it?
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The Nightmare Before Christmas has been criticised for Oogie Boogie being an obviously 'black' character too - hence why his song was done as an instrumental on the Nightmare Revisited album, I think.
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