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[chessplayer]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - There are so many negative vibes around "Cavemen" that at least one TV critic is taking bets that it won't even get on the air.

The ABC series based on Geico insurance commercials has gone beyond being just another stupid sitcom.

Questions are being raised about whether the Cro-Magnon characters will reinforce racial stereotypes.

[chessplayer]

A black man on the news last night said the proposed caveman show is racist and an insult to blacks.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I was looking forward to the show. Should’ve known that racial politics would stick it’s ugly head up and ruin it.

Maybe if everyone got the 40 acres and a mule they were promised....LOL I want my reparations, since European nobles kept my people down for hundreds of years!!

[LeoWindhorse]

I want my reparations, since European nobles kept my people down for hundreds of years!!

Me too! What must our little piece of Perthshire be worth now?

[dirtbiker]

...and an insult to blacks.

No more than Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton....

[wardaddy]

three jewish guys play neurotic cavemen and this insults blacks?

that is ridculous

are these blacks who object saying they feel as blacks they are closer to cavemen genetically than say your average cracker?

if not then why do they care?

anybody got that human development timeline thingie so we can check the veracity of these crybabies?

[wardaddy]

most of the blacks whining today aren’t even old enough to remember real racism

racism today is a crutch....a bogeyman phantom used to bring whites and asians to a degree to heel

[Redcloak]

Perhaps he meant that it’s an insult to the intelligence of Black TV viewers.

...and White TV viewers.

...and Latino TV viewers.

...and Asian TV Viewers.

...and Gay TV viewers.

...and Elderly TV viewers.

Well... Basically, anyone with a TV ought to be offended by such a stupid idea for a TV show.

[Grimmy]

So, black activists now identify with vaguely feminized, metrosexual, weak chinned, whiny limp wrists with bad haircuts?

Or maybe it’s the silly poser way the cavemen try so hard to seem so culturally elite and progressive that has caused the radicals to identify with them?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I always thought that “Amos and Andy” was an insult to cavemen.

[Cincinatus]

The real problem with this series (and the ad campaign it's based upon) is that it mocks liberalism. I've always thought that the Geico commercials were a parody of the modern "grievance culture," in which every offended group is entitled to copious apologies, groveling, and restitution. Liberals will hate this series because it satirizes them; they're perfectly fine with comedy that makes fun of conservatism or moral values.

I give this thing a 10% chance of survival. Too many oxen being gored here.

[CalvaryJohn]

Bullseye! You earn the Insight of the Day award. They can’t STAND being called on their victim status. I hope this show succeeds and is funny as well.

[Wilhelm Tell]

That is an interesting take on it. On the one hand, the cavemen have a grievance about everything. They are not inferior but perhaps they secretly fear that they are inferior because that is what society tells them, and this makes them neurotic. So the cavemen have to deal with both real and imagined insults. On the other hand, every one else acts in a condescending manner in their face while making "racist" fun at them behind their back and this legitimizes the cavemen's grievances.

I can imagine that the leftists are upset because this demonstrates that being condescending is just the same old racism in a new package. There are also the sort of humorless leftists who object to the word "caveman" (why not "cavepersons"?). They are also probably offended by the evident lack of gay, lesbian and transgendered "cavepersons" in the Geico commercials. This is proof that America is the most intolerant, male-dominated society on earth, blah, blah, blah. And who needs car insurance when cars are destroying the environment, blah, blah, blah. You are right, the cavemen concept just takes too many otherwise unspeakable things and parodies them. This will never pass the Hollywood censors.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

They are also probably offended by the evident lack of gay, lesbian and transgendered "cavepersons" in the Geico commercials.

I don't know about that; I always thought the Geico caveman was a little light in the . . . er, sandals.

[Stop Liberalism]

I agree the whining guy on the therapist couch seems like a fairy to me.

This show seem juvenile, it should do well on TV.

[Mark was here]

Homer Simpson is is a stupid white guy. The yellow is just a beard.

[sportutegrl]

Does anyone see the irony in this? The Geico commercials are about a self-identified group of people, (cavemen) who complain and whine that have been "insulted" by a Geico ad. Now another group of professional grievance mongers complain that the tv show is somehow insulting to them. Yeah, it is insulting to RACE BAITERS. Of course the Jacksons and Sharptons don't like it -- it hits too close to home.

[Vision]

There are so many negative vibes around "Cavemen"

This is what passes for news today?

[ran20]

Great point.. I have a feeling Sharpton wouldn’t get the irony.

[uncitizen]

OH...mygod!

[LibLieSlayer]

“A black man on the news last night said the proposed caveman show is racist and an insult to blacks.”

That says an awful lot about where this man’s self image lies.

LLS