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Mr 5 0 · 03-27-2002, 11:35 AM

Mustangbelle306:

The Speedy Gonzales cartoon ban is a great indicator of how looney the PC-left has become, where everything is offensive in some way shape or form.

In a perverse way, I think it's great when they do this lame stuff, as it exposes the PC crapola for the nonsense it really is. Maybe the reasonable people that make up the real majority in America will start to wake up and reject this brainless 'PC' dogma the left has been pushing on us for years.

I suppose Pepe Lepew will be next, as I'm sure his hyper-romantic , heavily french-accented persona must offend some French people, somewhere, somehow.

When we start banning classic cartoon figures based on what may be 'offensive' to someone, we're letting the looneys take over and if we do that, we deserve what we get.

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On the 'slave reparations' lawsuit; this has been coming for a long time. It's a colossal money-grab attempt that will ultimately fail and will harm race relations in America.

Most of us have nothing in our family history that had anything to do with slavery (which ended in 1863). This suit is a fraud on the public and is absurd on it's face as nothing that is alleged in the suit can be proven, as it pertains to people long dead and companies that are lightyears different than what they were in the mid 1800's.

The idea that 'America was built on the backs of slaves' is a popular belief fostered in the black community but it doesn't hold up on examination as the real weath and progress of early America was in the northeast and came as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The south, where slavery was legal and accepted, was a mostly agarian economy and while slave labor may have helped some plantation owners become wealthy, it was limited to a rather small number of landowners; not every southerner owned slaves, much less a plantation.

By the time of the Civil War, the south was moving away from the need for slave labor due to the invention of labor-saving machines and slavery would probably have become unprofitable and abandoned anyway, had the war not intervened.

All this stupid lawsuit will do is cost the companies a lot of money to fight before it's thrown out of court. Meanwhile, lots of whites will be annoyed if not angry at the blacks for trying to play the 'slavery card' to get rich, almost 14 decades after slavery ended in this country.

It's wrong, it's divisive and it will fail, as will the PC excesses if we simply say 'No' and stop trying to be all things to all people, everywhere.

Hey, the constitution guarantees 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'. It doesn't include a right to never be 'offended' by some people or things. Let's grow up and stop pretending that it does. If we don't, this kind of cartoon-ban lunacy and slave reparations lawsuits will never end, and we'll all be the poorer for it. Let's take back our country from the loons that push this PC drivel and simply be Americans again, without the hyphens and the class distinctions that divide us.

It's ultimately up to us to decide what we want our country to be. These news items show us the liberal-leftist PC-driven way and what results. How about we abandon that path and go back to 'live and let live' and follow Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of simply being judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin'. I'm an American, Screw PC.

03-27-2002, 11:35 AM	#4
Mr 5 0 Conservative Individualist Join Date: May 1997 Location: Wherever I need to be Posts: 7,487	PC is NG Mustangbelle306: The Speedy Gonzales cartoon ban is a great indicator of how looney the PC-left has become, where everything is offensive in some way shape or form. In a perverse way, I think it's great when they do this lame stuff, as it exposes the PC crapola for the nonsense it really is. Maybe the reasonable people that make up the real majority in America will start to wake up and reject this brainless 'PC' dogma the left has been pushing on us for years. I suppose Pepe Lepew will be next, as I'm sure his hyper-romantic , heavily french-accented persona must offend some French people, somewhere, somehow. When we start banning classic cartoon figures based on what may be 'offensive' to someone, we're letting the looneys take over and if we do that, we deserve what we get. *********************** On the 'slave reparations' lawsuit; this has been coming for a long time. It's a colossal money-grab attempt that will ultimately fail and will harm race relations in America. Most of us have nothing in our family history that had anything to do with slavery (which ended in 1863). This suit is a fraud on the public and is absurd on it's face as nothing that is alleged in the suit can be proven, as it pertains to people long dead and companies that are lightyears different than what they were in the mid 1800's. The idea that 'America was built on the backs of slaves' is a popular belief fostered in the black community but it doesn't hold up on examination as the real weath and progress of early America was in the northeast and came as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The south, where slavery was legal and accepted, was a mostly agarian economy and while slave labor may have helped some plantation owners become wealthy, it was limited to a rather small number of landowners; not every southerner owned slaves, much less a plantation. By the time of the Civil War, the south was moving away from the need for slave labor due to the invention of labor-saving machines and slavery would probably have become unprofitable and abandoned anyway, had the war not intervened. All this stupid lawsuit will do is cost the companies a lot of money to fight before it's thrown out of court. Meanwhile, lots of whites will be annoyed if not angry at the blacks for trying to play the 'slavery card' to get rich, almost 14 decades after slavery ended in this country. It's wrong, it's divisive and it will fail, as will the PC excesses if we simply say 'No' and stop trying to be all things to all people, everywhere. Hey, the constitution guarantees 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'. It doesn't include a right to never be 'offended' by some people or things. Let's grow up and stop pretending that it does. If we don't, this kind of cartoon-ban lunacy and slave reparations lawsuits will never end, and we'll all be the poorer for it. Let's take back our country from the loons that push this PC drivel and simply be Americans again, without the hyphens and the class distinctions that divide us. It's ultimately up to us to decide what we want our country to be. These news items show us the liberal-leftist PC-driven way and what results. How about we abandon that path and go back to 'live and let live' and follow Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of simply being judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin'. I'm an American, Screw PC.