>>> Uhm, you do realize that there are many examples of things in “Our Gang” films that have long been edited out because they are considered racist. <<<
Uhm, you do you realise that many schoolboards over the years have banned books like Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” because of perceived racism? (A bunch of chickensh*ts and jack*sses, in my opinion). Sorry, I don’t see how I have to take Spike Lee or anonymous film censors as unquestioned and inerrant arbiters of what is racist or what is not. If you have a case to make against this particular character in this particular film as being racist, please do so. Otherwise, I’ll take your peevishness as just your waving your “little red book” of PC censorship, Comrade.
“And your explanation addresses my point how, exactly?”
Because it points out that Trickyricky posted the image specifically in response to my noting his reference to this character in the “Our Gang” film (specifically, the catchphrase “Yum-yum eat ‘em up”), not because he was trying to score some racist point against President Jughead.
Oh my goodness! I said “President Jughead”! What a RACIST thing for me to say! I hope you don’t get a case of the vapors!
And are you seriously claiming that the depiction of blacks on the Our Gang films has the same merit as the depiction of blacks in Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”? Aren't you playing the same game of moral equivalency that the left normally plays? Hustler and Venus de Milo are basically the same thing, too, right? One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, after all, right?
Sorry, I don’t see how I have to take Spike Lee or anonymous film censors as unquestioned and inerrant arbiters of what is racist or what is not. If you have a case to make against this particular character in this particular film as being racist, please do so. Otherwise, I’ll take your peevishness as just your waving your “little red book” of PC censorship, Comrade.
So since nobody can be an unquestioned and inerrant arbiters of what is racist or what is not, there is no such thing as racism, right? Your post-modernist deconstruction of racism is flawless and you'd make a wonderful Marxist, Comrade.
As for that particular character in that particular film being racist, how much more evidence do you want than that entire episode (The Kid from Borneo) being banned from television for racist content?
Because it points out that Trickyricky posted the image specifically in response to my noting his reference to this character in the “Our Gang” film (specifically, the catchphrase “Yum-yum eat ‘em up”), not because he was trying to score some racist point against President Jughead.
Yes, a character from an "Our Gang" film that's been long banned because of concerns about racism and labeled "Obama's Uncle George" in response to a joke by a Polish politician about Obama's ancestry also widely seen as racist about. The foundation of the discussion is racist and the discussion itself is being built with timbers widely considered racist, yet it shouldn't be perceived as racist, right?
Oh my goodness! I said “President Jughead”! What a RACIST thing for me to say! I hope you don’t get a case of the vapors!
Out of curiosity, do you think this is racist?