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Mindy Kaling: ‘The Office’ Characters ‘Would Be Canceled’ in 2022
New York Post ^ | 12/6 | Erin Keller

Posted on 12/06/2022 3:50:12 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway
Monty Python couldn't be made today. And Fawlty Towers, now comes with an Offensive Content warning.
21 posted on 12/06/2022 4:03:35 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Kaiser8408a

Started under Bush I and the Tailhook “scandal” and Sec Def Dick Cheney. He decided it was time to have pussies flying Tomcats. He decimated the military in the name of women, woke, and homos. And the cancer quickly spread.


22 posted on 12/06/2022 4:07:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Night Hides Not
Could Airplane be made today? I think not.


23 posted on 12/06/2022 4:08:01 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

GMTA


24 posted on 12/06/2022 4:09:41 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: Night Hides Not

Excellent examples.

We went from casual fun and tolerance of the off color to tighter and tighter canceling by Karens, BLM and LGBTQ+ social media and entertainment censors.

Now an old TV show or movie may have a Cream of Wheat box on a shelf with Rastus holding out the bowl, or Aunt Jemima or even an Eskimo Pie (not Inuit) or Land O’Lakes butter with Mia on the package. And the movie Major League had the Cleveland Indians and Chief Wahoo, not the Guardians.

Here is the amazing story behind the Land O Lakes cover. The son of the Objibwe artist (US Navy veteran and an early Native American artist who designed and redesigned Mia 1928 ,1939 and again in 1954 wrote about this. He also worked with MGM and Disney and had fine art exhibited during his career.

The son, Robert DesJarlait, wrote in the Washington Post April 29, 2020:
“North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo (D), for instance, told the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minn., that the Land O’Lakes image of Mia went “hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls … by depicting Native women as sex objects.” Others similarly welcomed the company’s removal of the “butter maiden” as long overdue.

How did Mia go from being a demure Native American woman on a lakeshore to a sex object tied to the trafficking of native women?”


25 posted on 12/06/2022 4:16:43 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Great story Frank!

41 years ago, I was invited to my NCOIC’s quarters on July 4th. I was the only white guy in my 7 man section. His wife cooked the best soul food. When I asked for seconds on chitlins, she exclaimed “Lieutenant, I didn’t know you liked soul food!”

I said “oh yes ma’am, but for some reason, I feel like dancing!” While her jaw was hitting the floor, everyone else busted our laughing.” That’s how we rolled back then. I wouldn’t dare try that today.

26 posted on 12/06/2022 4:24:15 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: muir_redwoods

I would like to know if China allows knee slapping satires about its leaders? And if Putin or Kim Jong-un or Prime Minister Kim Tok-hun in North Korea enjoy chuckles at their expense by late night comics and films portraying them?

More like Woody Allen as the hapless court jester who mimics Bob Hope but couldn’t get even a smile out of the king. “Here I am again playing the Palace.”


27 posted on 12/06/2022 4:27:35 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway
In today's world Andy Griffith would be cancelled.

Not sure that's enough to save them.
28 posted on 12/06/2022 4:27:58 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Night Hides Not

LOL

If I’m still allowed to laugh.


29 posted on 12/06/2022 4:29:00 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway

Well at least we should have “Cocaine Bear” next year..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWEEKeJLMI


30 posted on 12/06/2022 4:36:40 PM PST by algore
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To: nickcarraway

She is only 43? She must have been a baby when that started.


31 posted on 12/06/2022 4:41:45 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: DannyTN

Imagine Green Acres. The wife follows the husband in part so he can achieve his dream.


32 posted on 12/06/2022 4:42:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Nothing last forever, even cold November rain.)
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"Imagine Green Acres. The wife follows the husband in part so he can achieve his dream."


33 posted on 12/06/2022 4:48:47 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: EEGator; Night Hides Not

As soon as we heard about cancel culture a few years ago, I purchased several movies on CD (from Goodwill), just so that someone can view them, should they wish. Those two are among my stash.


34 posted on 12/06/2022 5:13:04 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Night Hides Not

I don’t think “A Fish Called Wanda” could be made today either.


35 posted on 12/06/2022 5:16:09 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: FamiliarFace

Both are great, especially Blazing Saddles.


36 posted on 12/06/2022 5:17:54 PM PST by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

“Tastes have changed” Yeah, these offended people, anyone ever count them…?


37 posted on 12/06/2022 5:18:01 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: nickcarraway

I never watched the series when it aired, but after my youngest son came back here to live in May, it was one of the series he binge watched in my living room. I half-listened to it as he went through the whole series, and I told him then, that the show wouldn’t have been able to be made in this day and age, because nobody has a sense of humor anymore. Even Monty Python’s John Cleese has previously stated that in today’s cancel culture, the comedy the group produced in the past, would never be allowed to air today. Too many snowflakes out there.


38 posted on 12/06/2022 5:25:04 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: EEGator

Yep. A real classic. I probably have at least a dozen movies that I figured they would cancel. I figure they would cancel “To Kill A Mockingbird” too. Love that movie. I think there are a lot of movies from before 2015 that would be on the chopping block.


39 posted on 12/06/2022 5:27:32 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: FamiliarFace

Tons.

Tropic Thunder is one.


40 posted on 12/06/2022 5:30:29 PM PST by EEGator
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