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Not including this stuff where it belongs is gaslighting. Black people should know what their boss laughed at when he was a kid. It's also literal whitewashing
by pessimizer 2y ago
Not including this stuff where it belongs is gaslighting. Black people should know what their boss laughed at when he was a kid.
It's also literal whitewashing to take all of the black people out of the past, even if white people depicted us as clowns and monsters. I should be able to say "your grandfather depicted me as a clown and a monster." Better than being a problem swept out of frame.
- shermantanktop 2y agoThere's still tons of it around! The Marx Brothers movies are a great example of high-quality content with questionable segments that perfectly capture those old stereotypes. And as a classic movie fan, there are tons of movies with incidental black characters like that. I don't think those should all go in the bin, they are a product of their time. The WB content is aimed at kids, and I think that makes a difference.
- lupusreal 2y agoI don't think anybody is arguing for those Censored Eleven to be shown on TV. They're still out there for any adult who cares enough to find, I think that's enough. For that matter, I wasn't even criticizing the OP document for missing those eleven. Given the time it was written it's quite possible the author didn't even have access to them. In any case, the omission of those few from what seems to be an otherwise comprehensive document is, I thought, notable.