@RusA #9857322 oh... I saw in Truman movie, when he said that he was joinning the white supremacist when he was young coz his father was there too, and George Washington wasn't really happy when his army mixed with black peoples.
In Washington's time, most black people were still slaves, in fact the Founding Fathers are all getting a bad rap from the "anti-racism" crowd for owning slaves, even though if you had a farm or a large business, you had slaves, period - that's just how things were back then. Free blacks certainly existed, but how "equal" they were was quite controversial at the time.
Irrespective of what racist ideas Pres. Truman grew up with in Missouri, he's a major figure in the Civil Rights history because he desegregated the Armed Forces. This was a very big deal at the time (1948). I'm not sure what his attitudes were in other situations.
Lol yeah...many immigrants come to USA to read Dr. Seuss books, but i don't know who is Speedy Gonzales and Aunt Jemima syrup.
I was making a joke about how the Left wants to eliminate anything it sees as having anything at all to do with their use of the word "racist". This included eliminating any people of color from the logos or advertising of products, or in books and films that children might see, or that they themselves might see and get offended by. I made a Totally Not Fake News thread about it when it first hit the news cycle. ~9833139
Aunt Jemima is a brand of syrup that used a "Negro Mammy" character in its advertising, when such things were acceptable. This is considered an offensive stereotype today; and even though the look of Aunt Jemima changed over the years to a friendly middle-class black woman, this didn't satisfy the critics.
Old Aunt Jemima / New Aunt Jemima
I sort of understand that one, but eliminating Uncle Ben makes less sense, and changing the female-shaped bottle of Mrs. Butterworth syrup makes even less sense, since she's not explicitly a black woman anyway.
Speedy Gonzales is a popular character on the old Warner Brothers cartoons, where he and Sylvester the Cat had the kind of relationship that The Road Runner and The Coyote had - Sylvester would try to catch Speedy, and Speedy would zoom around and get the best of him. The Left considers him to be an offensive stereotype of Mexicans, even though Hispanic people love the character. Perfect example of white people getting publicly offended on behalf of minority people who are not offended in the first place. And if you point this out to them, they just insist that those poor minority people are just too dumb to be offended by such obviously evil images. (Not that they put it exactly that way, of course. They would say something more like, that Black-and-Brown People need to have their consciousness raised about the systemic racism that they weren't paying attention to up to now - or something like that.)
And six of Dr. Seuss' books have been dropped by the publisher for racially-insensitive drawings of Africans and Asians, and the result was that many other Dr. Seuss books shot up into the top twenty books being sold on Amazon. I made a Fake News post about this ~9855395 , and also a serious one that this might be a plot by the publisher to sacrifice a few least-selling books in order to get sensible people mad enough to go out and buy the other books. ~9855528
I mean like in here we have to much excusses to die, like we kill each others when i see the crime news, or vulcano can kill us, or Tsunami can kill us, or our polluted and unhealthy foods can kill us, but most of us still alive and still the most populated country in the world
Sounds like Indonesia is almost as bad as Australia about everything wanting to kill you, except tht Australia has fewer people to kill.
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oh... I saw in Truman movie, when he said that he was joinning the white supremacist when he was young coz his father was there too, and George Washington wasn't really happy when his army mixed with black peoples.
In Washington's time, most black people were still slaves, in fact the Founding Fathers are all getting a bad rap from the "anti-racism" crowd for owning slaves, even though if you had a farm or a large business, you had slaves, period - that's just how things were back then. Free blacks certainly existed, but how "equal" they were was quite controversial at the time.
Irrespective of what racist ideas Pres. Truman grew up with in Missouri, he's a major figure in the Civil Rights history because he desegregated the Armed Forces. This was a very big deal at the time (1948). I'm not sure what his attitudes were in other situations.
Lol
I was making a joke about how the Left wants to eliminate anything it sees as having anything at all to do with their use of the word "racist". This included eliminating any people of color from the logos or advertising of products, or in books and films that children might see, or that they themselves might see and get offended by. I made a Totally Not Fake News thread about it when it first hit the news cycle. ~9833139
Aunt Jemima is a brand of syrup that used a "Negro Mammy" character in its advertising, when such things were acceptable. This is considered an offensive stereotype today; and even though the look of Aunt Jemima changed over the years to a friendly middle-class black woman, this didn't satisfy the critics.
Old Aunt Jemima / New Aunt Jemima
I sort of understand that one, but eliminating Uncle Ben makes less sense, and changing the female-shaped bottle of Mrs. Butterworth syrup makes even less sense, since she's not explicitly a black woman anyway.
Speedy Gonzales is a popular character on the old Warner Brothers cartoons, where he and Sylvester the Cat had the kind of relationship that The Road Runner and The Coyote had - Sylvester would try to catch Speedy, and Speedy would zoom around and get the best of him. The Left considers him to be an offensive stereotype of Mexicans, even though Hispanic people love the character. Perfect example of white people getting publicly offended on behalf of minority people who are not offended in the first place. And if you point this out to them, they just insist that those poor minority people are just too dumb to be offended by such obviously evil images. (Not that they put it exactly that way, of course.
And six of Dr. Seuss' books have been dropped by the publisher for racially-insensitive drawings of Africans and Asians, and the result was that many other Dr. Seuss books shot up into the top twenty books being sold on Amazon.
I mean like in here we have to much excusses to die, like we kill each others when i see the crime news, or vulcano can kill us, or Tsunami can kill us, or our polluted and unhealthy foods can kill us, but most of us still alive and still the most populated country in the world
Sounds like Indonesia is almost as bad as Australia about everything wanting to kill you, except tht Australia has fewer people to kill.