I don't see why a disclaimer is required. Yes it may offend but it needs to be taken in the context of when it was made. Kids won't read the disclaimer but I"m sure the WB execs feel better (or should I say safer) about themselves.
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This. The disclaimer isn't there for the kids or even most of the parents, even though some of us might sit there while watching programmes that are clearly of their generation and think "well that's a bit racist" (crows in Dumbo anyone?).
The disclaimer is there for the one in ten-thousand, the joy hating idiot who spends their days looking for something to campaign against. It's so, when challenged (and they will be), WB can come out and argue that the cartoons hold cultural signifigance and that they have addressed the less palatable aspects of the content with a warning before the show. It's a compromise between not addressing the change in social sensibilities and full on retrospective creative censorship.
Like it or not none of this would be necessary if the miniscule minority of society could be trusted to view things in context, or if the wider minority of social media muppets could be trusted not to jump on the band wagon when the campaign starts.
Woke up at 6.41am just to disagree with someone......
Fairly sure spoffle doesn't sleep, he's on at all times
(yes I know that means I don't either and no it doesn't mean hes keeping me up all night).
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Errr both Tom and Jerry are clearly racists, for god's sake they're both locked in an eternal conflict based upon nothing more than each others physical differences ignoring all the aspects of their lives which they share as fellow mamals simply trying to get along in 1940's America.
Fairly sure spoffle doesn't sleep, he's on at all times
http://xkcd.com/386/
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So does the UK?
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What indication was there that the maid was a slave and not happily paid worker? Maybe she was in a union?
Or step away from the keyboard and pull the plug
Who cares stupid warnings are stupid.
Like the "hot content" on coffee cups
Not nearly as bad at the states.
You might have scum on council estates phoning national accident helpline over jezzer kyle in the UK.
But in the US it's much bigger business and much more of a problem.
You are totally correct.
Actuallyoutside Tom and Jerry cartoons where was this "stereotype" projected?
Was it not a case that poor people worked as maids?
It's the only place I saw this even being a kid in the 70s.
BTW my gran was a maid in the late 20s
Kids don't see racial stereotypes they are taught by society at a later age.
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jezz.. they've made something an issue making making it so.. Some people are just bored..
got any link or pics?
So Casper is a white spook.. they going to do them same likewise? Thought not.
got any link or pics?
So Casper is a white spook.. they going to do them same likewise? Thought not.
No, because it's not about the colour as such. Which has been discussed at length in this thread.
