wut?
Posted on 10/08/2009 11:47:09 PM PDT by myknowledge
AMERICANS have condemned the Hey Hey It's Saturday "Jackson Five" skit, with US TV talkshows, news bulletins and talkback radio debating whether it was racist and if Harry Connick Jr was correct to take a stand.
As Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard also entered the fray today, defending the Hey Hey's intent, on one of America's top-rating morning TV talkshows, The View, it was labelled "demeaning".
"We are in what people like to call post-racial America right now with (Barack) Obama in office," The View co-host, Joy Behar, said on air.
"I'm not saying that it (racism) is gone, but we are trying to grow as a country and that's kind of a demeaning sketch that we would never do here anymore."
Behar also raised Australia's treatment of Aborigines.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
I do not find it demeaning or racist in any way, I find it entertaining and humorous, because my sense of humor is too bloated to play the racecard.
Yes, and of course, Americans have every right to try and impose their cultural standards and their heritage on those of us in other countries.
Oh hang on - isn’t it rather racist to be trying to do that?
And what was it I saw recently... ‘Tropic Thunder’, I think it was. An American actor supposedly playing an Australian character in blackface who was meant to be an American black...
I didn’t think the film was funny, but that was just because it was a lousy film.
Are there race issues in Australia? Yes. But we’ve got enough of our own, we don’t need to borrow Americans ones as well.
Same as we have enough PC issues of our own, without being expected to cater to American political correctness as well.
wut?
Did they spel “skit” wrong?
I did too!!!
No. A skit is a sketch comedy.
Double standards logic. One standard for the PC enforcers, another standard for the lemmings.
Indeed. Anyone is allowed to make fun of anyone else with as much mockery and exageration as possible, and no one bats an eye. But it is evil if the mocker is white and the mocked is black.
Black comedians mock “white people” all the time. Even put on white face, but that is OK.
Typical Demon-Rat libel.
I agree.
There are too many panty-waisted, candy-assed pansies in this country looking for anything they can claim is a racial insult or injustice so they can advertise their thin skin and idiocy once again.
Aussies rock.
Great. Look at the Daily Telegraph comments. Now Australians think that all Americans are like those dumbass “women” on “The View”.
That's just a comment from one person. It doesn't really generalize one whole set of people into one stereotype. Diversity of opinions, anyone heard?
Our average Joe’s character are more like the conservative American South, not the liberal American North (except for the ones who live in affluent areas of Australia’s state capitals).
this is what I was thinking.
I see blacks all the time making fun of whites and many do not have a problem and yet 5 white men pretended to be the jackson 5 and some how some have a problem with it.
double standards again
Racial skit sickens America
Bullsh1t. Period.
I’ve often had the thought that our Aussie cousins are the only other people, at least among western countries, who truly understand the term, “rugged individualism.” It faded from British life after WWII, disappearing with the stiff upper lip at the introduction of socialist policies. Pastoral Europe never had it, or maybe the Swiss did or do.
“Racial skit sickens America” I’ve been feeling pretty good lately. And as to one our our top rated morning shows, “The View,” I’ve never watched it, too busy at work to watch disgruntled rich sluts complain about my country and all that is good with it.
When a country attempts to control what other countries may say, isn’t that cultural imperialism?
“...Australia is MORE multicultural than America is...”
“Multiculturalism” is NOT such a great thing to celebrate, brother. It’s being used a wedge to divide and conquer. You’re either Australian, or you’re not. Same here. No hyphens.
“Why is Americans becoming “Holier than tho” over this one off incident...”
Not “America”...just some liberal socialist morons and their cadre of useful idiots that are trying their damndest to destroy America. They’re not “Americans”, they’re something else.
Not my countrymen, for sure.
Not that white, half of those doctors encoring the act they created as medical students 20 years ago are Asian. (The "white-face Michael Jackson" is a SiriLankan born plastic surgeon)
If we were truly in a post-racial America no one would have any trouble with this skit. It was accurate about Micheal Jackson.
oh whatever
being familiar w/ Aussie culture, I can say the simple difference is that Aussies [the people] aren’t as PC [yet].
What is demeaning about imitating a group of performers who happen to be black? IMO nothing. But it “may offend” some, so in US we say it’s bad.
Down under, it’s funny.
In pre-obama world, I might have been outraged.
Now, I do not care.
If you have seen the Jackson Five before.
Rule Two! No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way at all...if there's anybody watching.
So, Joy Behar, the self-hating Catholic who thinks the medieval saints were schizophrenic, is worried that Australian might be committing cultural genocide by teaching Darwin to the aborigines and destroying their belief in the "dream time?"
Hey . . . makes perfect sense.
In my world — my imagined world — we give respect to those who have more knowledge and experience. In this case, the skit is FUNNY! Because it accurately parodied the artificial pale-faced vanity of the adult Micheal against the dark-skinned Jackson Five. And thus those who live outside of the currency and fads of last three weeks would find it funny.
So funny I sent them hyperlinks to my friends through Facebook.
I thought it was a hoot. Loved it.
Or on the Housewives series...
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