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klick (01/04/2016) [-] You know, I think we need to give our grandparents more credit. Last night I decided to watch a video of a bunch of old Superman cartoons from the 1940's and in one of the shorts the villain was a Native American. But he didn't have any stereotypes; no Feathers, no braids, no face paint, nothing. Just a dude in a suit trying to take back his ancestors' land. And I was really surprised, considering how much uproar people make about old cartoons. Saying that they were either white or racially insensitive; but I guess people don't remember things that don't offend them ?
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thumbfortrump (01/04/2016) [-] There was cartoons that would be considered racist by modern standards. It wasn't only in America, many of the early Tintin comics had pretty racist stuff as well.
inb4 someone says this is an accurate depiction.
inb4 someone says this is an accurate depiction.
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cronos (01/04/2016) [-] I loved those cartoons growing up! My favorite has to be the episode where Superman faces the giant creature from the Artic. The music is so fun and entertaining. It really makes you feel like the creature was just this huge lumbering beast. Sorry, had a little nostalgia trip there.
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herecomesjohnny (01/04/2016) [-] sometimes I feel the contrary. I feel like people beautify the past a lot, when a lot of the time it sucked ass. Saying things like "1940's gangsters were gentlemen, not like today ugh!" irks me. Little things like that.
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masdercheef (01/04/2016) [-] I feel you. Sure, when they were interacting with certain people, they were polite and gentlemanly... but they were still ******* criminals for a living.
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herecomesjohnny (01/04/2016) [-] not even that, they hooked girls on cocaine to prostitute them, assholes are assholes not matter the suit they're wearing
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cookiecoketwo (01/04/2016) [-] That's just a typical Tuesday, and I don't even need the suit!
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mumon (01/04/2016) [-] That's why I think being overly PC is a step back. There were plenty of non stereotypical depictions of ethnicity and good female characters without angry people acting as if there were none and getting outraged. The negatives were emphasized instead of the positive leading people to just look back ignorantly at a golden age with disdain. Good writers have always existed and almost all good writers actually research their material or have some basic knowledge enough to write their characters like humans rather than stereotypes. Well, anyway point is I agree with ya dude, people definitely tend to remember the past that suits them.
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anon (01/04/2016) [-]
This is more or less the first time in history society's tried to do right by each other. Of course we're going to get it wrong at first. Unfortunately as a whole we're extremely short-sighted, and rather than giving things time to mature, if they are inconvenient NOW we say they are wrong and must be abolished.
So instead of having the time we need to take this viewpoint of the super-PCs and tone it down to the halfway point, where we actually start giving a **** about each other instead of working on all this division and bigotry and racism and the "I have/am this so I'm better than you." and all the people using anti-PC as a front for being hateful, or angry that their 'right' to be abusive of others is being threatened.... well, frankly we're probably never going to see it BECAUSE of these people.
A big-ass cultural shift like this would take generations of trial and error, fine-tuning and acceptance. Instead, people get butthurt that they can't hate on people without some sort of backlash instead of being praised for it, and thus we're not going to see that kind of evolution any time within the next century for sure. We get more and more selfish and self-centered as time goes on.
So instead of having the time we need to take this viewpoint of the super-PCs and tone it down to the halfway point, where we actually start giving a **** about each other instead of working on all this division and bigotry and racism and the "I have/am this so I'm better than you." and all the people using anti-PC as a front for being hateful, or angry that their 'right' to be abusive of others is being threatened.... well, frankly we're probably never going to see it BECAUSE of these people.
A big-ass cultural shift like this would take generations of trial and error, fine-tuning and acceptance. Instead, people get butthurt that they can't hate on people without some sort of backlash instead of being praised for it, and thus we're not going to see that kind of evolution any time within the next century for sure. We get more and more selfish and self-centered as time goes on.
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wertologist (01/04/2016) [-] This whole PC movement is going full circle. We had segregation of race, then we got rid of it, then we started to ease together, now we are starting to break apart and soon we will likely segregate again or something like it.
Look at how we evolved in cartoons. Magic School Bus and Captain Planet are great examples. They were great and classic. They were mostly known for bringing in a person of every race/sex into a team that got along. That was a huge thing back then and started a trend that would have mixed races/sexes in cartoons so it wasn't all just white characters. Fast forward a few years and you have a lot of great shows where there is mixed race and it really isn't even forced. It just feels right and normal because it wasn't forced. Fast forward to now and people are forcing race/sex into shows trying to force diversity when it wasn't even a problem. Shows are going to start having one of every race/sex again. Just watch. I figure soon after that it's going to go right back to single race cartoons again. Full circle.
**** PC culture. It literally helps no one and is actually doing far more harm than good.
Look at how we evolved in cartoons. Magic School Bus and Captain Planet are great examples. They were great and classic. They were mostly known for bringing in a person of every race/sex into a team that got along. That was a huge thing back then and started a trend that would have mixed races/sexes in cartoons so it wasn't all just white characters. Fast forward a few years and you have a lot of great shows where there is mixed race and it really isn't even forced. It just feels right and normal because it wasn't forced. Fast forward to now and people are forcing race/sex into shows trying to force diversity when it wasn't even a problem. Shows are going to start having one of every race/sex again. Just watch. I figure soon after that it's going to go right back to single race cartoons again. Full circle.
**** PC culture. It literally helps no one and is actually doing far more harm than good.
