Posted on 02/24/2021 5:24:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
Wokesters are targeting old children's shows and adding preposterous disclaimers.
If you want to catch Johnny Cash singing “Ghost Riders in the Sky” with a posse of puppets, you’d better act fast. The Man in Black could get away with uttering the word “Hell” on The Muppet Show. He will likely not however survive that Confederate flag hanging on the set.
In what is but the latest to be hit by the destroyer of mirth that is “wokeness,” eighteen episodes of The Muppet Show – all five seasons of which are now on the Disney+ streaming service – have been marked for shame.
The “offensive content,” which also includes episodes with Kenny Rogers and Steve Martin, now carries the following disclaimer before the show:
This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.
Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.
In some regions The Muppet Show is only available through an adult’s Disney+ account. Arguably, its target audience is shut out completely absent a grown-up in the room.
Yes, it has come to this: the Muppets are damned as being racist and perpetuating unfair depictions of ethnic groups. Kermit the Frog is now the ringleader of a gang of offensive hoodlums. I’m waiting for der Swedish Chef to get yanked as an offensive stereotype of Scandinavians. Animal is obviously a parody of manic depressives. And they don’t get much more Hispanic than Pepe the Prawn.
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What if I am offended by these wokesters?
Disney is single handedly behind the push to turn us into a communist nation and this woke craze.
You don’t count.
You’re White and good at Mathematics.
I don’t care, I cancelled Disney+ over their firing Gina Carano and I ain’t going back.
How many years ago did this occur. Do these woke idiot s actually pour through these episodes from decades ago? Nothing better to do with their time? Seriously....
A station in my locale that airs classic TV shows during the daytime put up such a disclaimer for Benson. I did not know that I lived in such racist times when I was a kid in about 1979-80 and Benson was one of my favourite shows back then. I can maybe understand if they showed episodes of Amos N Andy, but Benson?
Have the Swedes complained about the racist stereotype perpetrated by the chef character? Or, have the frogs & pigs revolted?
Stop the stereotypes. Cookie Monsters are people too.
The fictional Benson from 1979/80 was probably making more money as a butler than i am today. What’s the outrage?
At some point the old DVDs and VHS tapes of original content, pre-woke-washing, of various movies and shows are going to be valuable.
I loved Disney’s “Song of the South” as a kid. You never see it broadcasted anymore. It used to be a staple.
Or stepanopolis (snuffalufagus) having a, large ummm member on a kiddie show is somehow degrading to men that aren’t as well endowed? This whole bs is becoming ridiculous
Also Oscar the grouch living in a trash can will be seen as mocking the homeless, so they’ll have to cancel him out too.
Tried showing my grandson Fantasia.
That came with Wokeness Alert too.
Walt must spinning in his cryogenic freezer.
bump
Walt is still waiting for someday to be “woke”
The odd thing was that the episode I watched with the disclaimer was about Benson being reunited with a woman who he had been in love with many years earlier, but after things between them, she went on to marry another man who ultimately became a very successful and wealthy businessman and that businessman was played by none other than Roscoe Lee Browne (Robert Guillaume’s replacement on Soap).
Coincidence? lol
That worries me. After a year of seclusion, I’m starting to look like Animal.
And don't let Julia Child off the hook--all those racist French stereotypes! (Do they count?)
And what about Akira Kurosawa and all those offensive Japanese stereotypes!
Disney had butchered some of it’s old movies. I still remember scenes in Davy Crockett which are no longer there.
And those were not even controversial scenes.
It has also happened in other movies from other companies. I still remember a cut scene from THE COMANCHEROS, that is later mentioned in the movie.
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