In a way, I’m sad about the banning. Is it permanent or a lockout for a period of weeks?
Please understand: I cannot and will not defend his personal attack nor his choice of language.
And at the same time, he raised points that would have been great in a constructive dialogue. Unfortunately, those got swallowed up in his vitriol.
As far as I know it is a temporary ban for James76.
IMHO, the personal attacks and language by James76 were well out of order - and yet without them he did make some valid points for discussion in response to class316’s post.
Growing up, I was fortunate to watch lots of cartoons uncensored. Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Disney, Tex Avery, and others. Those were my childhood. The mammy from Tom and Jerry yelling Thoooommmasss is a voice that resonates my youth.
Somehow, someway, I even managed to watch a couple of the censored 11. Not sure how, but when I watched them recently I definitely remembered a couple of them from my childhood.
On comes the pc police to tell me that my childhood was bad? They can go fuck themselves!
Many of us watched those cartoons - and other similar films - repeatedly over a long, long time.
There is no ‘pc police’ involved in the removal of content of which the owners of these franchises themselves deemed offensive years later and then removed.
If anything, it is the owners of these franchises wanting to re-write history in an attempt to show they weren’t offensive, derogatory, or used racial caricatures and so on, in their past content. A bid to retcon their own history - which they obviously have issue with.
Nobody is telling you your (or our) childhood was bad - so please don’t claim otherwise. Or include and twist such a point to post inflammatory remarks, or lay blame at some sort of imaginary ‘pc police’.
Though if you’re using the “On comes the pc police to tell me that my childhood was bad? They can go fuck themselves!” as a political dig at people who think such removed scenes are inappropriate - and telling them to go ‘fuck themselves’… don’t be surprised if you find yourself, like James76 did, in having a short period of time away from here to reflect on your post.
A shame about all this - a passionate, yet civil and intriguing discussion almost broke out.