Dukes of Hazzard Dropped by TV Land

[PureX]

Fair enough, I did see that Apple pulled games from the app store if they had the flag. I do think it is a little much.

Most corporations are spineless sheep when it comes to pop-political issues. All they care about is making money, so they'll do whatever they think the majority of their clients want them to do. If killing grannies on TV was their client's pop-sensation of the moment, they'd be killing grannies on live TV.

You all are idiots if you're reading anything more than abject pandering into these corporation's actions.

 

[bybee]

So, how do you interpret this image? I consider this to be just as offensive as any display of the stars & bars ever was. If being offensive is a protected right than we as Americans will all just have to deal with those things we find distasteful now won't we.

And those who do distasteful things in my face will just have to deal with my reaction now won't they.

 

[rocketman]

And those who do distasteful things in my face will just have to deal with my reaction now won't they.

In todays America that makes you a racist...

 

[Nazaroo]

If you defend the Confederate Flag, then you defend racism and hate.

wait wait wait a minute:

wait... racism - isn't that the whole point of Evolution?

and ... hate. so no one is allowed to hate anything or anyone?

Last I checked, Christianity was the ONLY religion that semi-banned hate,
except maybe the Bahais.

Did you become a secret closet-Christian, Tetelestai?

And does that mean you're 'coming out'?

 

[PureX]

Ya'll did it to yourselves.

 

[Quetzal]

If so they must've walked that back--I downloaded the Gettysburg game last week without a problem and sure enough, it features the rebel flag.

Perhaps, I could have been mistaken since I can't find the article. I am batting .000 so far today.

 

[TomO]

Most corporations are spineless sheep when it comes to pop-political issues. All they care about is making money, so they'll do whatever they think the majority of their clients want them to do. If killing grannies on TV was their client's pop-sensation of the moment, they'd be killing grannies on live TV.

You all are idiots if you're reading anything more than abject pandering into these corporation's actions.

^^^^
Fact lain:

 

[Nazaroo]

You can still get these on Ebay if you hurry:

 

[Nazaroo]

"Rabbit, I hate you."

 

[Tambora]

Ya know, I never watched a single episode--never watched a single second of it, in fact.

You missed some wild rides!

The General Lee

 

[bybee]

In todays America that makes you a racist...

I'm thinking it makes me a lot of things! But most importantly, I am blessed to be a Christian and grateful to be an American.

 

[PureX]

I'm thinking it makes me a lot of things! But most importantly, I am blessed to be a Christian and grateful to be an American.

The United States has a long history of struggling to achieve the ideals that were set forth by our founders: that all men are created equal and have been endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among them the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have struggled for two and a half centuries to try and achieve this ideal, and we are still struggling to achieve it. And in the course of that struggle there have been many instances of abuse of our flag. But if that abuse is in the service of that higher ideal, then I think it stands as a symbolic act intended to remind us all that the flag means nothing if we continue to ignore and deny those ideals that it was created to represent.

 

[Nazaroo]

Airport Security now checking for Confederate underwear:

July 1, 2015 On direct orders from the Presidential Office, Homeland Security at airports will now be searching for 'contraband' underwear, under the new Executive Order #1984-666. "The General" will also have to be repainted under Presidential Command:

 

[Nazaroo]

After initial difficulties in defining "the Confederate Flag",
legislators have proposed that dropping any one essential element
from the flag effectively allows it to escape the new ban.


Southern States will now be allowed to vote on three basic designs,
for the new "non-racist" Confederate Flag.

Each state will be allowed to print its own version of the flag
in history books and school textbooks:

 

[PureX]

When I was growing up, a friend of mine from the neighborhood once told me that he wasn't allowed to watch the show, "Hogan's Heroes" on TV. He said his father had been in a POW camp in Germany during WW2 and was deeply offended by that show, because it depicted the German Commandant and the guards as big-hearted fools, when they were anything but that. They were highly intelligent, well-educated, and they were ruthless. And there was nothing humorous about his time spent in the Gulag. He did not appreciate Hollywood making jokes about such a terrible reality. He felt it made light of it and thereby paved the way for things like that to happen, again, in the future.

There are some good reasons why people resent the confederate flag and what it stands for, even when it's just being used in a silly TV show, for entertainment. The Civil War was by far the bloodiest and most traumatic war in U.S. history. And it's not unreasonable that some people would find it highly offensive to misrepresent it, and make light of it, for fun, for entertainment, or for some silly redneck icon. As doing so does cause us to forget the horrible reality of that war, and of the lives wasted in slavery, and of brother fighting brother to the death in the name of economic exploitation.

 

[Quincy]

As someone who's family has done alot of moonshining, I always found the show highly offensive, anyways. That's not because of the General Lee, either. Just like the Beverly Hillbillies, it's an insulting display of stereotypes. You can say that about most tv shows from Mama's Family to Home Improvement to The Fresh Prince, though. There's no reason to take any of the shows off the air.. If they bother you, you should just do as I do. Don't watch them. If the ratings turn out low, the show will get pulled anyway, for a much better reason.

Still, I liked the show's opening song and daisy dukes are great, but yea. Shows like that are only entertaining through the bliss of ignorance, imo.

 

[bybee]

When I was growing up, a friend of mine from the neighborhood once told me that he wasn't allowed to watch the show, "Hogan's Heroes" on TV. He said his father had been in a POW camp in Germany during WW2 and was deeply offended by that show, because it depicted the German Commandant and the guards as big-hearted fools, when they were anything but that. They were highly intelligent, well-educated, and they were ruthless. And there was nothing humorous about his time spent in the Gulag. He did not appreciate Hollywood making jokes about such a terrible reality. He felt it made light of it and thereby paved the way for things like that to happen, again, in the future.

There are some good reasons why people resent the confederate flag and what it stands for, even when it's just being used in a silly TV show, for entertainment. The Civil War was by far the bloodiest and most traumatic war in U.S. history. And it's not unreasonable that some people would find it highly offensive to misrepresent it, and make light of it, for fun, for entertainment, or for some silly redneck icon. As doing so does cause us to forget the horrible reality of that war, and of the lives wasted in slavery, and of brother fighting brother to the death in the name of economic exploitation.

I burnt myself up in my youth caring intensely about every possible intent to insult. Meanwhile, as the sleep were safely grazing, they mocked me and avoided me as too unpleasant.
Most social intercourse would almost cease if we were to avoid the possibility of insulting someone.
We are not hot house flowers and we need to grow up and get a life.
So long as we live in what has become a relatively free country, we may still choose to avoid that which we find unpleasant for our own personal reasons.
I loathe and detest "Rap" noises. My grand children find my classical music borrrrrrrrring. It is not a problem because I don't party with them and play my music when I am alone.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

I find Leave it to Beaver to be very offensive, because of the way they made the fat kid look like an idiot. Lumpy Rutherford.

 

[steko]

I find Leave it to Beaver to be very offensive, because of the way they made the fat kid look like an idiot. Lumpy Rutherford.

Yeah, I think that all people should be forced to act like Lumpy.
Lumby masks should be mass-produced and all people forced to wear them.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

Yeah, I think that all people should be forced to act like Lumpy.
Lumby masks should be mass-produced and all people forced to wear them.

That's an idea.

It was also offensive, and hilarious, how Eddie Haskell would hit on June Cleaver.