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My girls are very good in math and I promote their well being in math and science.
Reading this post makes me chuckle. Not because I think you are wrong, in fact I totally agree with you.
What fox has been doing is harmful to society in several ways. Here is a particular example I can point to and show as a completely agenda driven story, with the agenda being “democrats are taking your freedom with needless covid regulations, and celebrating.” There is some applicable “both sides” I’m sure, and I’ll look at any specific example you’d like to point to. The idea of uniting as a country can’t happen when one group of people believes straight lies as gospel. 500k dead and a breech of the Capitol, fox is responsible for much of it in my opinion.
I took my white priviledge to the bar last night, and it worked. Got served right away. Then again, the whole bar was white.
That piece was a perfect example of following an agenda, but still following "the rules". I agree that the agenda was what you say. They use quotes and sequencing to still fully report the story, but present it in the manner which they wanted. They also used the embedded tweet to further the agenda. I imagine if they tweeted this out themselves, that their tweet followed the same agenda.
You forgot this one. They'd take the out of context quote and say words mean things. HTH.
I was hoping the sun would reflect off the snow and get me a little tan.
I started a thread about whether or not the joykill police were coming for the book A Confederacy Of Dunces and was mocked for starting it. It was both unimportant and silly, I was told. You watch. Ten years give it, that book will go from being the "cool" book to own by the glitterati to the verboten book by the left. Too much fun stuff, too bawdy, too spot-on.
Maybe it shouldn’t, but this kind of stuff scares the #### out of me. Years ago we were told it was inconsequential, limited to just a couple of kids on college campuses, etc. Those people were flat out wrong. It’s all over the place now, and it’s having a noticeable effect on the country. It has practically killed the comedy industry.
I'm going to have a hard time with self loathing based on skin color. Especially as it applies to my children.
DIsney has been very aggressive with sanitizing movies, like editing smoking out of classic movies, to make their content as safe as possible. And obviously a whole movie (Song of the South) has been unavailable for what 35 years.ekbeats said:
I saw that in the theatres back in the 70's. TBH, I can't even remember what it was about.
“Kermit’s distant cousin, Pepe, was unavailable for comment,”ekbeats said:
It is bad. Anytime things that arent offensive get labeled as offensive, of course it is bad.
Do you think the muppets never crossed the line? It was the late 70s...Betting they did quite a few jokes that wouldn’t quite make it on that type of show today.
Yes, the warning is likely stupid and bad.
I think that the muppets arent offensive and anybody that gets offended by muppet episodes from the late 70's I never want to speak to, ever.
Well I'm offended that they took it out and they're doing this. What about my rights? Shouldn't they be outraged that I'm offended?
Just remember what you post today MAY be deemed offensive in 20 years. Tread lightly.
Only the far left can play judge and jury on offensive matters. We are priviledged.To be honest, I don't have to wait 20 years to know his posts are offensive.
I've reached the point where people post examples like this and I honestly can't tell if it's mean to support Disney's position or serve as a reductio ad absurdum to Disney's position.
It does support the demeaning racist stereotype of Asian restaurants giving out fortune cookies.
So if I go to the local Chinese place for a to-go order, I should be offended if they include fortune cookies?jon_mx said:
What I post may be offensive now. I do so knowing that and knowing it is my opinions only.
You are forgetting the third choice.
For 18 episodes total with a disclaimer...I say get over it and have some thicker skin that you are talling others to have. I roll my eyes at the complaints.
Isn't the bolded the point? You're admitting that some older shows crossed a line, yet you seem to be arguing that this particular show didn't cross a line, even without having watched the clips in question.
When the fundamentalists get all worked up over Harry Potter books because they talk about sorcery, all of us understand that we're dealing with mentally fragile people. I don't doubt that their feelings of offense are real, but we get that it's best just to roll our eyes and move on.
Maybe we should go to TCM and demand every movie that shows smoking get edited out. The anti-SJW’s are more offended at the people who are offended.
I just am not bothered by a few seconds of a warning on a few episodes anymore than Im othered by warnings on other TV shows and movies. Im happy to be able to easily show the content to my kids rather than just tell them about it because someone did get offended enough for it to be "cancelled".
We all see what you are trying to do here. It is lame.
What I am trying to do here is laugh that there was a big deal made about this. Because it is comical that people are upset that someone might be offended by Johnny Cash singing in front of the confederate flag. But instead of canceling the epidsode, Disney slaps a few seconds of a warning before it and that bothers some.
The warning takes away from MY EXPERIENCE. We are tuning in to watch Waldorf and Statler crack on other muppets and escape from the Woke world. I also don’t want to explain to my kids why your kids may be offended by Johnny Cash.
My kids aren't offended by Johnny Cash. My kids grew up listening to Cash in the car with me. And if a few seconds of a warning before a show starts takes away from your experience...that seems to be a you problem. And you also won't be watching much TV because there are warnings leading into just about every show these days.
No. You are trying to be a pita. You are trying to compare the people that got upset about muppet jokes (after getting upset about tons of other dumb things and moving down the line) to people talking about those people on a message board.
Why are you ruining my experience with warnings on everything that moderate people find innocuous?
