Posted on 06/26/2015 3:58:17 AM PDT by Marcus
In the wake of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church, America seems to be bent on eradicating even the hint of any symbol regarding the Confederacy, from removing the Confederate battle flag from public spaces to even deleting Civil War computer games. Serious people have proposed banning “Gone With the Wind” and sanitizing “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Others have advocated blowing up the Jefferson Memorial and other monuments to famous Southerners whether they had anything to do with the Civil War or not.
However, if America is serious about expunging any hint of the Confederacy, it must even ferret out cultural artifacts that cloak it in allegory and symbolism. So, it is time to follow a modest proposal that the old, cult science fiction TV series “Firefly” be banned from the airwaves and DVDs and video downloads of the series be abolished. And other manifestations of the series, such as online games, must be deleted.
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From my cold dead hands...
This is like satire, right?
Yeah I think so but there are plenty of liberals who would like to ban it because Adam Baldwin is an unapologetic conservative.
No it’s a scummy blog pimp.
In reading it (I still think maybe satire) the gist of the argument is that Mal represents the future fictional Confederate Rebel who wanders the outlands after having been on the losing side. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
I’ve noticed that when you get a situation where one side feels they have the power because of all the successes they’ve had (e.g., renaming streets, taking down statues and flags) they get more arrogant and demanding and they always overstep.
In this confederacy eradication thing, the real problem here isn’t the confederacy and its connection to slavery so much as it is that age old tenet that “the slave dreams not of being free; he dreams of being master.”
And that’s the crux of it. It won’t end
The analogies are getting crazier by the hour.
I’m wondering when they’ll go after SyFy’s “Defiance”.
The town of Defiance, (formerly Saint Louis) refuses to join the oppressive Earth Republic despite facing threats from the alien Votanis Collective.
Its another space western.
His use of “modest proposal” gives it away. See Jonathan Swift ...
What a crock and a bridge to far. Star Wars should be banned also using the same logic.
Yes, it's satire.
But I have a question beyond the satire, for anyone who might have an opinion:
Why do you think Firefly failed? I actually thought it was quite good.
Well when you expunge confederate history...then slavery disappears with it...I regret the loss of the Confederate flag flying over a CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL, but I will not miss the reference to slavery thrown in my face every day. It will be nice when that discussion finally banned. No now slavery didn’t happen. Nice.
This is a good thing.
Either the Progs will realize that they are starting to look ridiculous here with their purging frenzy or ...
They’ll actually take these ideas up and by drastically overreaching spur a massive backlash.
I think Firefly failed largely due to poor marketing.
Most people never saw it before reruns.
I thought it was a tremendous show. Probably the best in decades. I’m at a loss to explain why it wasn’t more popular.
Yup. It’s exactly the same as putting a “Satire” label next to the title.
Its cancellation has never been fully explained.
The conspiracy-minded fans allege that it was cancelled for being too good: that the SyFy parent company suits saw it’s message as either too subversive (Libertarian sense) or too recidivist (harkening to the Confederate “lost cause” romanticism).
Why don’t you write a satirical piece calling for it to be banned?
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