They should remain.
People who go around being hurt or offended by anyone else need to just grow the heck up!
Most modern comedy plays on it; it is just different because most modern comedy is an "equal opportunity destroyer" (meaning they will make fun of mannerism of several different types of people instead of focusing in on just one.)
Most people tend to have a sense of humor because they will laugh at jokes made against a group or ethnicity that is not their own. If they are willing to laugh at a joke made at the expense of one ethnicity, they ought to take it with a mild humor when their ethnicity is next on list. It is easier to laugh at them than to get mad. Getting upset just cedes control over yourself to someone else. You allow that person to dictate your mood and in some cases the outcomes of a period of your time. It is easier to just get back with something equally as biting and quip that way, than to go around angry and offended all the time.
I don't know if you've seen some of the offensive cartoons but they can get REALLY bad. Racism of 2011 and racism of 1940 were very different. (I wish people would stop saying that it's no different from today) I don't think they should be on networks because they really can hurt somebody emotionally or mentally. Especially children, these cartoons were aimed towards children.
But I don't think they should be destroyed or banned. Like I said there's effort in them and we shouldn't pretend they never existed.
Yes. they should be retained, if for anything else but to remember history. To destroy them is to deny history. Denying history is the first step to forgetting history and those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
But one should not dwell too much on history. Dwelling on history leads to hurt feelings. Look not at the past transgressions, but where the world has gone since that time.
Should racist cartoons be destroyed?
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They should remain.
People who go around being hurt or offended by anyone else need to just grow the heck up!
Most modern comedy plays on it; it is just different because most modern comedy is an "equal opportunity destroyer" (meaning they will make fun of mannerism of several different types of people instead of focusing in on just one.)
Most people tend to have a sense of humor because they will laugh at jokes made against a group or ethnicity that is not their own. If they are willing to laugh at a joke made at the expense of one ethnicity, they ought to take it with a mild humor when their ethnicity is next on list. It is easier to laugh at them than to get mad. Getting upset just cedes control over yourself to someone else. You allow that person to dictate your mood and in some cases the outcomes of a period of your time. It is easier to just get back with something equally as biting and quip that way, than to go around angry and offended all the time.
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I don't know if you've seen some of the offensive cartoons but they can get REALLY bad. Racism of 2011 and racism of 1940 were very different. (I wish people would stop saying that it's no different from today) I don't think they should be on networks because they really can hurt somebody emotionally or mentally. Especially children, these cartoons were aimed towards children.
But I don't think they should be destroyed or banned. Like I said there's effort in them and we shouldn't pretend they never existed.
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Yes. they should be retained, if for anything else but to remember history. To destroy them is to deny history. Denying history is the first step to forgetting history and those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
But one should not dwell too much on history. Dwelling on history leads to hurt feelings. Look not at the past transgressions, but where the world has gone since that time.