They're canceling SpongeBob episodes now

[NYChase718]

I really don’t understand this world you cancel shyt like this and then you have a gay pride parade where men and women have they dikks and t*ts all out and children are more then welcomed to go see people express themselves.

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

They need to slap on some disclaimers with a conversation around cultural context and keep it pushing.


It feels somewhat silly to compare editing out gotdamn cartoons to real life struggles and education


BUT the point is there. .. to erase, revise and make pretend things in history weren’t actually the way they were is at the root of a LOT of our current social issues.

Exactly. Repped

 

[Matriarchy Refugee]

Cancel culture is basically accomplishing what conservative christians were trying to (and failing to) do in the 90s and 00s: the purging of "immoral" things from pop culture


The only thing that changed is the definition of "immoral"

The purging never ends, though...

 

[Mike the Executioner]

A long time ago, I was thinking about how the hell they got away with the panty raid, but then I realized the joke isn't that SpongeBob and Patrick are stealing women's underwear. The joke is that they're so lame, the wildest thing they can think of doing is stealing an old lady's underwear and taking pride in it.

And this still isn't as ridiculous as The Simpsons banning the Michael Jackson episode because of allegations from lying pieces of shyt.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I was just gonna say them cartoons from the 90’s/early 2000’s had some slick stuff in them

 

[EndDomination]

I agree. Kids are extremely impressionable and cartoons are solely responsible for the actions they take.

To this day I'm still trying to murder and eat every roadrunner I see in person.

I and millions of other kids worldwide tried anime/ninja fighting and wrestling moves as kids on other children
If you're older than 21 you should remember this being a fairly substantial concern for parents from the 80s into the mid-2000s.

Meanwhile cartoons about gay relationships and demonic alchemy is fine and dandy.

People being gay on a television show is different than depicting anthropomorphic sea creatures stealing women's underwear.

And lol @ alchemy

 

[thekingsmen]

I and millions of other kids worldwide tried anime/ninja fighting and wrestling moves as kids on other children
If you're older than 21 you should remember this being a fairly substantial concern for parents from the 80s into the mid-2000s.

People being gay on a television show is different than depicting anthropomorphic sea creatures stealing women's underwear.

And lol @ alchemy

People... You haven't been paying attention to cartoons...


Yes alchemy but I know you are clueless on this too.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The fact that posters take this shyt seriously is hilarious. All the shyt going on in this country and y'all talk like the big problem is whether some corporation chooses to stop airing some old slightly sketchy episodes of a children's show they own.

"Cancel culture" has plenty of excesses, but anyone who devotes any of their time to worrying about it when we have judicial injustice, militarized police, wealth inequality, declining lifespans, collapsing ecosystems, government corruption, and attacks on voting rights is either a goofball or an agent.

People being gay on a television show is different than depicting anthropomorphic sea creatures stealing women's underwear.

And lol @ alchemy

Cracks me up that people on this forum actually say, "If you stop showing books/cartoons with offensive stereotypes to children then you're erasing history!" but then turn around and go wild whenever they see anything gay in media.

Apparently they think the offensive stereotypes are real but gay people aren't.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Whenever these threads pop up up, i'm left wondering "exactly who in the fukk is 'THEY' ?"

"They" is corporate executives choosing to withhold their own shyt. There's no secret cabal of book burners going around pulling all this shyt off the shelves.

They've seen three years of companies getting taken to task for being full of bullshyt on racial issues, and are deciding to be proactive and are starting to pull books and episodes that they would never choose to air today.

The funny part is, this forum is FULL of posters calling companies to task for shyt like, "Look at that TV show that aired a white woman doing black dances, they should be ashamed of themselves!" or "Look at that person who told a joke with a racial stereotype/slur, they should be canceled!", but when a corporation decides on their own to pull some old shyt off the shelves, they're acting offended over the idea.

Being a fake militant and obediently obeying conservative narratives simultaneously leads to some whiplash.

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

 

[MBwithadream]

How long till they find those adult jokes in rugrats

 

[Coolin']

When did the world become so sensitive?

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Meanwhile cartoons about gay relationships and demonic alchemy is fine and dandy.

You see what they doing

 

[Crayola Coyote]

YOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[DaddyFresh]

this is not cancelling

Exactly. That word need to go into retirement. Any change and people throw that cancel word around. Cancel is when people basically collectively blacklist your product, person etc. companies making decisions to keep their image clean is business 101