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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
(...) However, there are Bugs Bunny cartoons that are horribly racist. Cartoon Network even refused to show them during a Bugs Bunny retrospective last year. I have seen them and they are despicable.
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Thomas Paul: "there are Bugs Bunny cartoons that are horribly racist. Cartoon Network even refused to show them during a Bugs Bunny retrospective last year. I have seen them and they are despicable."
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
I rented a collection of "Censured Cartoons" which included several Bugs Bunny episodes. They had a little black boy who was hunting a rabbit. I thought it was no less insulting to black people than the Elmer Fudd character is to whites.
There were also some WWII-era cartoons in which Bugs Bunny made fun of Hitler and Tojo. They were treated in a very stereotypical way. For example, they showed Tojo as having narrow eyes and buck teeth; they showed Hitler as having a silly mustache. Both were made to speak with thick foreign accents. Absolutely horrible. :roll:
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Originally posted by Paul McKenna:
Do I detect a thick scent a sarcasm above?
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
SCJP1.4, SCWCD
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
Michael Ernest: Rudyard Kipling is another example. A pure product of his age, writing on a line of sentiments we have since wanted to discard.
Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
As for racism in Bugs Bunny, I'd have to go back and take a look. Not a single cartoon comes to mind that I would remember as 'horribly racist.'
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Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
I've read hardly any Kipling, but it was my impression that he had much more sympathy and respect for the natives than most Englishmen of his time.
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
Originally posted by Paul McKenna:
I personally dont have anything against Kipling.. but to quote him - "It is the burden of the white man to civilize the blacks and the browns"
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Heading said: �Stick to the Devil you know.�
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i read an article before, saying california soon will have no majority race, that is, no race is over 50% of total population.
you have to believe latino will become the majority in california in the future. a population majority may not mean too much. but it could be the start of something.
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
The future depends upon the rate of Latino assimilation (i.e., the rate at which they marry whites and become prosperous Republicans).
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Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
Hasn't that already happened?
Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
Hasn't that already happened?
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Originally posted by Michael Ernest:
You gonna marry a statistical average or you gonna marry the person you can find that best suits you?
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Originally posted by <economist>:
not yet, as of year 2000.
Race // California // United States
White persons, 59.5%, 75.1%
Black or African American persons, 6.7%, 12.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, 1.0%, 0.9%
Asian persons, 10.9%, 3.6%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 0.3%, 0.1%
Persons reporting some other race, 16.8%, 5.5%
Persons reporting two or more races, 4.7%, 2.4%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, 32.4%, 12.5%
White persons, not of Hispanic/Latino origin, 46.7%, 69.1%
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Originally posted by Alfred Neumann:
What about 'Don't know', 'don't care', and 'garradda my face'?
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
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