Pepé Le Pew reportedly canceled by Warner Bros and accused of promoting 'rape culture'

This cancel culture stuff may have started back in the 1980s,when Mighty Mouse was accused of snorting some blow!!ROTFLMAO
The Cocaine Adventures of Mighty Mouse
(drugs are bad,mkay??)

 

I'm not saying current trend of metaphorically 'burning all the books' is sane. But if it's no big deal that kids sat around "immersed" as you phrased it in honestly really stupid crap (funny or cute, whatever, but really, really stupid if you think about it objectively) ..everybody in the dukes of hazard as I recall was independently wealthy (nobody actually had to work to afford expensive cars and repairs) and shallow AF. Honestly a person would probably get more out smoking pot and staring at a fly on the wall. But now we're all going to die because there's gay people on tv shows? Come on. You can't have it both ways.
I don't know who they is. My kids knew what I believed. They also knew it was up to them to make their own value judgement on things as they grew up. Trying to drag outdated norms into the future is a losing battle. Blacks got to become actual people, women got to have their own bank accounts, children got to stop being tortured for being illegitimate and are no longer used to prop up household economies. Things change and seems like using energy being hysterical and yelling about the sky falling is energy better used lighting your own corner of the world according to your own beliefs.

 

Bo and Luke where my heros when i was growing up in the early 80’s. City folk couldn't connect with a show like that, and i get that, but country folk loved it. You can confuse a child at a young age, why would you purposely do so, and say its just the way things are these days? No way! You have to protect your children at all costs, or you are doing yourself, and the society, an injustice. Its hard for kids to be kids these days, thats for sure.

 

And it may be a loosing battle, but im not giving up without a fight. Just like abortion in Arkansas got banned last week, never give up on what you believe in, good things can happen when you fight for them.

 

if you were trying to promote some of the early 70s tv characters like the Ingalls or the Waltons as heros I might be with you. Country folk my behind. My village on the shore of Lake Ontario now has population of 5000 and still mostly cows and apple trees. Country doesn't have to equal dumb.
But just like some people read Wired or The Economist there will always be people to read The National Enquirer. There will be people who show their kids Ted Talks and there will be people whose kids watch Jackazz. Your kids will apparently watch whatever they choose and you will blame their problems on whichever strange and foreign concept you get stuck on from Faux News...
My daughter at age 10 won the Civics Quiz highest weekly score in 5th grade.
We.Did.Not.Have.TV.... (hadn't for over 5 years at that point. I got rid of it after the 2nd month of constant replay of 9/11 videos on all the channels. Kids need to be protected from many different things)
But-we talked about what was going on in the world while listening to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me in the car while her little brother was in chess club every Saturday morning from 10-12. Are Looney Tunes going to give that to your kid?

 

If the Suess Estate/Company had just stopped sales of those 6 books without an announcement - who would have noticed? As a follow up question - how were sales of those 6 books over the last 10 years?

Who would have noticed in Pepe le Pew wasn't in Space Jam 2 if Fox hadn't made a thing about it? If the writer's had full creative freedom - absent from any PC/cancel culture/financial sucess, would Pepe le Pew's character even make it into a first draft?

How many Horatio Alger books were sold in 2020? How many would have been sold if they weren't on the reading list for college classes?

In the early 2000s the Oddessy started disappearing from high school reading lists. Was it "canceled" because of (insert any one of many questionable themes)? Or was it removed to make room for "multicultural" books? Or maybe because it's a PITA to read and analysis in the 3 weeks available and there are other options for English Lit teachers to use? Same questions for "Moby Dick".

Sometimes a cigar has a deeper meaning, and sometimes it's just a cigar.

I could care less about a publisher deciding to no longer sell a book, or a franchise deciding to not include a character that they find problematic in new productions.

The problem I have is with Disney (among many others) going back into films and shows and deleting scenes to make them more palatable for today's world. Looking back a couple of decades we had the debate over Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Should we keep them in the curriculum as written, remove all of the N******, or eliminate from the school curriculum and/or library. Personally I would leave the text as written and eliminate it from school curriculum. Changing a work to make it palatable is the worst form of censorship possible as it eliminates the ability to truly understand how the world was at the time the piece of art was created. No serious person would advocate putting pants on David. Yet we are almost eager to do the same with books and movies. "Song of the South" will never make it out of the Disney vault, but Disney will carefully re-edit films to remove "problematic" scenes or langue to allow us to relive our childhood without a sense of awareness.

I love "Dumbo". Always have, always will, even though the Pink Elephant scene gave me nightmares as a kid, and even today my most terrifying nightmares have similar visual effects. Despite my love for the film, I recognize the Crows are racist as hell. I hope for a day when that racism isn't apparent to a first time viewer, but it doesn't change the fact that when it was created, Dumbo reflected the inherent racism of it's time. I also loved the A-Team and Dukes of Hazard, but I can't watch either as I find them both formulaic, shallow crap that illustrate a false nobility.

Culture changes. What people want dictates what art creates; what art creates dictates what people want. What was should be preserved as it was, not altered for modern tastes.

 

Who cares

 

I was bummed when there was no cartoon on this thread.

 

Ok, let me clarify, southern country folk. And what are you talking about? You lost me with the back half of your comment.