The US continues its 156-year old civil war
Sat, 2017-08-19 22:52
#1
The US continues its 156-year old civil war
Sun, 2017-08-20 19:05
#2
Since you're not planning on saying anything, here's the Mona Lisa made from coins.
Sun, 2017-08-20 19:10
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Sun, 2017-08-20 19:24
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Sun, 2017-08-20 19:39
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alan smithee
Belvedere, oh Belvedere...
lol. how bout this?
Mon, 2017-08-21 10:32
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Hm. Both cartoons use the phrase "That's one of of our boys", but with radically different meanings attached to the word "boy". Obviously, the more combustibe usage is in "Southern Bugs Bunny"(or whatever it's actually called), which also contains the line "What's this I hear about you whippin' slaves?"
Mon, 2017-08-21 10:41
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alan smithee
Hm. Both cartoons use the phrase "That's one of of our boys", but with radically different meanings attached to the word "boy". Obviously, the more combustibe usage is in "Southern Bugs Bunny"(or whatever it's actually called), which also contains the line "What's this I hear about you whippin' slaves?"
You have absolutely no sense of humour. It was parodying stereotyping and caricturing Southerners.
Yosemite Sam played the part of modern day white supremists. Holding on to what they can't have back.
Lighten up.
Mon, 2017-08-21 10:47
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Huh?! Where on earth did you get the idea I was criticizing the cartoons? My point was simply that the one you posted dealt more unflinchingly with the issues of racism and slavery. That's a PLUS in my books.
Interestingly, a search of wiki shows that they were both produced in the same time period, and the one with the bowdlerized history was actually made earlier: 1950 for Dog Gone South, 1953 for Southern Fried Rabbit. DGS was made by Chuck Jones, but SFW was made was made by Friz Freleng, who also created the Pink Panther character after leaving Warner's.
Mon, 2017-08-21 11:05
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Smithee:
Reading over my post, if it was my use of the word "combustible" that caused you to misunderstand me, I apologize. I simply meant something like "liable to cause controversy", which does not mean that I agree with the people who are offended. I was thinking that the reason I've seen Dog Gone South more often than Southern Fried Rabbit is that the latter was probably kept off of television in later years.
I know Warner has publically apologized for a few of Freleng's other cartoons(which seem to me more unambiguously racist), and I'm speculating that SFR might just have gotten swept up in the purge.
Anyone curious can YouTube "Jungle Jitters"(the title pretty much says it all; NSFW and possibly triggering).
Mon, 2017-08-21 11:05
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Yes, of course it is caricaturing the die-hard old rebel, but the shuffling and menial African-American stereotype would be offensive to many.
Mon, 2017-08-21 11:28
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alan smithee
Anyone curious can YouTube "Jungle Jitters"(the title pretty much says it all; NSFW and possibly triggering).
OK,now THAT was racist without any redeeming message. I also noticed to the right of this cartoon in related videos was a cartoon called 'Scrub Me Momma With A Boogie Beat'
I ddidn't click to see it. But I have seen it years ago. Seems some people get a kick from crap like that. WB was pretty racist back at a time when society was more overtly racist. Oops,sorry,that particular cartoon is from Universal.
Speaking of racist cartoons,I remember back when I was a teenager,after school cartoons were always broadcast on channel 5. The worst offender was Droopy. Looking back,I don't understand how that station got away with broadcasting those toons.
Sadly,that kind of racism still exists in 2017.
Mon, 2017-08-21 11:37
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Somehow or other(I don't follow animation too closely), I managed to see Jungle Jitters a few years back, in a Freleng collection that contained a disclaimer saying that while Warner apologizes for the racist cartoons, they weren't going to keep it out of the canon, since "that would be like pretending the films never existed". To their credit, they also refused to play the "Those were the times..." card, saying instead something like "These stereotypes were just as wrong then as they are now."
Mon, 2017-08-21 18:19
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We're all living in 2017, but NorthReport is way ahead of us and living in 3017.
That's why he's never even bothered to come back and make a post in the thread that he started. Who revisits a 1000 year old thread?