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if they can get upset about that. i as a hispanic want to get speedy gonzales and slowpoke rodriguez pulled from all wb cartoons or i will call jose x to come and hold a rally. also taco bell needs to stop using spanish words in their food because i am offended they call that crap by mexican names. oh yeah that stupid chihuaha needs to be pulled off. i am now getting a lawyer.
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I am going to do the comic-book re-make of "Little Black Sambo" and see what kind of controversy that starts...
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| PLEASE SLYM...That controversy shut down an entire chain of restaurants... And I used to like Sambo's...
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Yeah but c'mon. That Sambo-type image has very specific and negative connotations in our country. I don't find it at all surprising that people would find this offensive. If I came across a modern comic series where the main character was an evil looming Jew hoarding gold and boiling Christian babies, I'd certainly be shocked. Actually, I'd be more amused than offended, but that's just me.
Comparing this to Manga is quite a stretch.
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When Walmart brings back Comics on a RACK..and actually combines them in a pack for a discount again..
I'll give a crap.
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Stereotyping has been around as a story telling mechanism for centuries. Stereotyping has been taught in script writing classes for years for use in movies and animated shorts. The concept of it was to set up the character as quickly as possible to keep character developement to a minimum, by using peoples preconceptions . Unfortunately, some of the uses were based on questionable preconceptions. The other day on "Last Comic Standing", Richard Belzer gave a public dressing down to a southern prop comic who had done a rather inventive prop sketch (some of the props were inventive) showing two WWII aviators in a dogfight, one American and one Japanese. The comic used distinct stereotyping in his portrayal of the two pilots. Belzer said it is no longer legal for one ethnic group to make light of another ethnic group. I wonder what he thought of "Borat". I don't think stereotyping will go away, but it will be controlled by the marketplace, to a degree. Even though "Borat" used it extensively, the movie was a commercial success. It's a matter of laughing with or at and the preceptions that go with it.
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| Hmmm, A lot of what you gentlemen are saying makes a great deal of sense. But what we must consider is the problem of "double counsciousness". This affliction is often carried for hundreds of years by those who are either colonized or enslaved. The power of the colonizer's stereotypes effect the colonized in many negative ways. I do not want to deal with this in "black" and "white". The "minority" are already acutely aware of their differences from the "majority", and physical stereotypes reinforce the idea that they are somehow "ugly", deficient, or less than the "majority" (note the simian-like appearance). This mentality is not beneficial for the minority, or for any society as a whole. Imagine seeing yourself through your own eyes, and through the eyes of another race simultaneously; now imagine growing up with these deficient beliefs, and further siring children who will carry these beliefs as well. This leads to anger, frustration, hatred, and the like, and we all can do without that. In the case of this comic character, he may be Cuban, but remember there are "claros", "morenos", and "negros" in hispanic culture as well which are as subject to stereotypical treatments, and class separations like in American culture. I agree sometimes that some of these African American activists go over board, but if you look at how they (African Americans) were treated in this country not even half a century ago (denied the right to vote, lynching, water hoses, attacked by police dogs), one might be able to understand such a scramble to respond to issues like this, they do not want to ever be degraded or humiliated like that again. I understand that. If I drew a picture of a white lipped monkey, and presented it to your child and said, "That's what you look like to me," a great number of you would probably douse my torch posthaste, yes? Now extend that to a whole race of people and tell me that that does not hurt on some level, especially after the atrocities of the past. If the majority does nothing when the majority is disrespected in such a manner, this serves to reinforce the beliefs of the minority that they are hated, different, inferior, and ugly. That is bad for everyone involved; the seeds of disharmony lead to disunity lead to strife. We all sink or swim together. Respectfully, David
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Great post texranger37.
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| In the last paragraph I meant to say: If the majority does nothing when the minority is disrespected in such a manner, this serves to reinforce the beliefs of the minority that they are hated, different, inferior, and ugly. David
A Friend: "Let's go see Paranormal Activity."
Me: I'd rather be cut to pieces by the hooves of mountain goats.
A Friend: "So..that's a no?"
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| Thank you Sherlock, I hope it helped to put the controversy in a different light.
A Friend: "Let's go see Paranormal Activity."
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A Friend: "So..that's a no?"
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