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R.I.P General Lee
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I'm not a fan of Obama for various reasons...I'm not a fan of any president this country has had during my lifetime for that matter.
But this isn't his doing. This is the media acting like fools and loud mouthed individuals making a mountain out of a molehill concerning an inanimate object.
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What's the official "statement" on why they removed the series? That's totally absurd.
It's like those fucking Facebook rainbow profile pics. If you don't have one you don't support the LGBT people. BS ....
It's like those fucking Facebook rainbow profile pics. If you don't have one you don't support the LGBT people. BS ....
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I think maybe it would be okay if they put the show back on but just digitally removed the flag from the car. Maybe they could replace it with something like a big rainbow flag. I think that would open the show up to a whole new demographic.
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I'm covered with it...it gets on everything. Shit is kind of sticky/greasy...hard to clean up and stains my undershirts something fierce.
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It's racist against whites if anything. A show about some guys from Georgia; of course they must worship the Confederacy. Some execs/writers in a board room somewhere decided that folks would identify more with the characters if their car were some outrageous homage to their Confederate hero. I'm sure that the show itself is not overtly racist at all. It's just some sitcom. That being said, if you do a Google image search on the show, the car was pretty fucking important it would seem. It's plastered all over every image. Do I agree that they should pull the show? I don't really care, honestly. I don't watch television much. But I don't understand why it's totally cool with everyone for southern white dudes to be stereotyped as being in love with the Confederacy. I suppose it's not actually a stereotype, is that why? Is it just the truth? Never lived down south.
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Funny how a show like Dukes of Hazzard gets pulled over the Confederate flag yet many stations still carry The Cosby Show
Because you're CLEARLY a racist if you take off a show that has black people in it.
Why did you have to take off the show with black people? Are they not good enough to be on TV with white people?
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Despite the fact that Cosby may be a serial rapist? There's a JELLO pudding pop you suck on while washing it down with a New Coke
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Ever heard of the War of Northern Aggression?
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You forget that you can't be racist towards white people.
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By this logic, shouldn't pretty much everybody in America besides rich, white, male landowners be offended by the American flag?
I mean, slavery was legal in parts of the north AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation. Not to mention segregation, the WWI wartime xenophobia, the WWII Japanese American internment camps, denying women the right to vote, etc.
I mean, slavery was legal in parts of the north AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation. Not to mention segregation, the WWI wartime xenophobia, the WWII Japanese American internment camps, denying women the right to vote, etc.
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Oh yeah...I'll say this, with the time I've spent in Georgia and Arkansas...there's places down there that have a mentality like it is just before the Civil War or something.
Almost right. Add "male" to that and you hit it on the head. If you speak out against women of any color, you're a sexist.
All countries have a history of oppression and America is definitely no exception to that rule. This country has plenty to be ashamed of...
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There was a recent interview floating around of Jerry Seinfeld explaining why so many comics avoid college campuses now. You can't say anything without someone thinking it's offensive or racist. This whole generation is super sensitive, and they call anything offensive.
It's OK to be offensive. I don't have to control my behavior because you can't do it on your own.
It's OK to be offensive. I don't have to control my behavior because you can't do it on your own.
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Freedom of speech is supposed to be "say what you want...just understand there may be consequences"...being confronted by someone when you say something offensive is actually a good thing in my opinion.
But...there are places that I consider to be "safety zones"...art/performance art is one of them. A song where a guy threatens someone, or uses racial/sexist slurs. A movie where people cuss like sailors, tits are shown and there's a ton of gore. A stand up comedian doing an act. What written in a book. These are just a few example of art where you get what you get...it is a closed event and if you don't like it, don't buy it. Crying foul at a stand up comedy act is just absurd...
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So let me get this straight, a gunman kills some black people while waving a confederate flag, now the entire USA wants to ban said flag because it now stands for racism...
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So let me get this straight, a gunman kills some black people while waving a confederate flag, now the entire USA wants to ban said flag because it now stands for racism...
People have wanted to remove the Confederate Battle flag from state buildings for some time.
Sucks it takes an apartheid (Rhodesia, South African Republic, Confederate States of America) flag waving fanatic to convince the rest of the country as to why.
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People need to chill the fuck out. Them Duke boys will be back on the air within a month. Maybe not on TV Land but 100 other cable access channels that run old TV. Right now people are overreacting to a tragedy. Cooler heads will prevail and the General Lee will continue flying off of ramps for the foreseeable future.
Same shit happens every time there's a major event. It's like freedom fries and all of the hysterical bullshit that happened after 9/11 that got walked back a couple months later.
All that said, the battle flag needs to be pulled down from government buildings. A flag representing insurrection against the United States gets flown alongside the American flag... shit's just stupid.
Same shit happens every time there's a major event. It's like freedom fries and all of the hysterical bullshit that happened after 9/11 that got walked back a couple months later.
All that said, the battle flag needs to be pulled down from government buildings. A flag representing insurrection against the United States gets flown alongside the American flag... shit's just stupid.
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God, I thought America was bad...what a disaster that bullshit is...
