There is no way that you are going to get liberals predominantly censoring if you are using rap as a primary example. While liberals do have a problem with sexism and violence, I will bet you 10:1 that the primary censorship of rap comes from conservative groups. While liberals have a problem with sexism and violence, IME they are a lot less likely to censor over it.
I do not accept this. While it is likely true that conservatives are more racist, I am not willing to label anti-racism as purely liberal without some evidence.
Even if being anti-racist is more of a liberal position, that does not follow that the censoring of books with these themes is coming from liberals. We would need to look at the groups doing the censoring. There are plenty of conservative church groups that are none too fond of racism.
I agree, I just do not see that it is liberals doing the censoring even if some of the reasons may be considered “liberal” in general. I am open to being proven wrong though.
This annoys me too, from both sides. In these debates the conservatives knee jerk to no increase and the liberals knee jerk to an increase. If we accept the idea that there should be a minimum wage, then unless we look at the data we do not know if the current one is too high or too low.
Little Black Sambo isn;t racist. But for some reason the English called Natives of the Indian subcontinent "Black’ or even “Niggers”. The “Black” part is somewhat derogatory. AND, the Original and most other versions I saw has Sambo as racist stereotypically “Black” not Indian at all, and so did the Castle Films cartoon. So, yeah, nearly all the illustrations are racist as hell.
As far as Song of the South goes, the book by my friend Jim Korkis explains a lot. The Film is not “officially forbidden”. It is NOT set in the antebellum South, but rather during reconstruction. No one in the film is a slave (altho of course some were slaves before the War). It’s not “Southern Revisionist history”.
Now yes, the film is a product of it’s time. It’s not “politically correct”. It’s very easy to interpret the Black reconstruction era sharecroppers as “happy antebellum slaves”.
It should not go back into general circulation, but a historic version of in in the Metal Box series (Walt Disney Treasures) with a foreword and such is needed.
FDR was pushed to do what he did largely in the face of incipient class-based conflict, emanating from a large and often militant Left. The struggles of workers (and the rest of the social movement) are what made so much of the West’s wealth accrue to such a large portion of society, rather than those at the top. Also, it’s important to note that a lot of Western wealth was extracted from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and so on.
Very informative to know. I only saw Song of the South once as a child before it got pulled from general circulation. I didn’t know enough to be able to critique it or the historical period in question at the time but it IS a good movie. The details you clarify make it even more benign. I know that Disney is the one officially doing the prohibition for its re-release in the U.S. but it is for a reason. They understand backlash as well as any mega-corp does these days. I just don’t think it is warranted in the case of Song of the South. It has some of the catchiest tunes of any of their movies.
I don’t even think a foreword is needed unless you think that the same thing needs to be done for old Warner Brothers and Tom and Jerry cartoons that were a staple of every child’s TV viewing when I was growing up in the 80’s, even the old and really odd ones. What’s next, censuring The Honeymooners because of domestic violence innuendo (that never happens and couldn’t based on the characters involved)?
I think both sides get shafted by the political parties they trust yet we vote for them because they have us brainwashed into thinking the worse if they dont. As a registered republican I am not always happy with what they do and many democrats I know feel the same about their party.
And their is the anti-president thing. The liberals went nuts in their hatred of Bush and the right does the same with Obama. However I think Obama supporters are way to quick to throw out the race card in order to stifle opposition.
The main story is weak, histronic, melodramatic, and dated. The animation is interesting. The ‘Uncle Remus’ storyline is good, and the Academy Award winning score is great.
Apart from the score, what I found particularly memorable was how African the Uncle Remus character was. And it alerted me to the African-ness of characters in other early talkies.
You are assuming that benefit of diversity is not counterbalanced by some undesirable effects of diversity, such as hate crimes, stereotyping, discrimination, neo-nazism, skinheads, secret cabals, anti-miscegenationism, concentration camps, gas chambers, slavery…
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Some people think that it is sufficient to draw up a correct Party line, proclaim it from the housetops, state it in the form of general theses and resolutions, and take a vote and carry unanimously for victory to come of itself, spontaneously, as it were. This, of course, is wrong. It is a gross delusion. Only incorrigible bureaucrats and red-tapists can think so. As a matter of fact, these successes and victories did not come spontaneously, but as the result of a fierce struggle for the application of the Party line.
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The major reason corporations can report low profits is because interest and rent, most of which is actually interest in another form, can be deducted from gross profits. Classical economists consider rent to be a parasitical function in an economy.
When people like you and I talk about free trade, we mean that it makes sense that I, a house builder, should make a deal with you , an auto mechanic, to build your house and you should fix my car, rather than you trying to build a house and I trying to repair my car. This is the way the corporate shills try to sell what they consider “fair trade”.
What they really mean is that instead of hiring you for $20 an hour to make a product which contains 4 hours of labor and then selling it for $100, making $20 profit, they will hire the US government to install a dictatorship in some foreign country and pay people there $5 and hour, make them work harder so the product only has 3 hours of labor time and sell the same product in the US for $80, making a profit of $65 and telling the people what a good deal they are getting because they are getting a 20% discount in the price. Of course, the public represents those who no longer make the $20/hr and are now making he minimum wage at Mickey Ds.
This example is for illustrative purposed only. It ignores other legitimate costs an employer may have.
On the list of stupid ideas held by both liberals and conservatives, this idea that free trade and immigration are two different things, and one side likes one and the other side likes the other.
They are one and the same. All immigration is is free trade in human capital.
Depends on the social issue. I can’t imagine what could be more important than equality and freedom. I’m actually quite shocked in another thread that so many liberals are willing to throw gays under the bus for universal health care.
