Same with the Simpsons Michael Jackson episode, 30 Rock and It’s Always Sunny also had black face jokes that ironically were meant to make the viewer feel extremely uncomfortable and realize how racist the character was being that are now gone.
Whether you agree with the jokes/premise or not, I believe we shouldn’t pretend like none of that happened. To me that makes it worse. The fact that we feel so uncomfortable with it now proves that we are marching forward, and that doesn’t mean we blindly hide from our mistakes. I like what WB did with Looney Tunes, they put a disclaimer warning that it was there, and that it was from it’s time, and that to remove it would mean removing the evidence of how far we’ve come.
It was only a few years ago that Disneyland overhauled Splash Mountain to be themed around The Princess and The Frog instead of Song of the South, even though they did their damndest for decades to make it difficult to obtain the movie.
Same with the Simpsons Michael Jackson episode, 30 Rock and It’s Always Sunny also had black face jokes that ironically were meant to make the viewer feel extremely uncomfortable and realize how racist the character was being that are now gone.
Whether you agree with the jokes/premise or not, I believe we shouldn’t pretend like none of that happened. To me that makes it worse. The fact that we feel so uncomfortable with it now proves that we are marching forward, and that doesn’t mean we blindly hide from our mistakes. I like what WB did with Looney Tunes, they put a disclaimer warning that it was there, and that it was from it’s time, and that to remove it would mean removing the evidence of how far we’ve come.
The Diversity Day episode of the office comes to mind as something matching this exact description that has been excluded on streaming platforms.
Is diversity freaking gone?? That was the entire point!
It was only a few years ago that Disneyland overhauled Splash Mountain to be themed around The Princess and The Frog instead of Song of the South, even though they did their damndest for decades to make it difficult to obtain the movie.