Tom & Jerry to be censored?

Here in the US Tom and Jerry, along with the Three Stooges and many other serial shows have been cencored to protect the young and promote the slack willed parents who want the government to do the parenting.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Here in the US Tom and Jerry, along with the Three Stooges and many other serial shows have been cencored to protect the young and promote the slack willed parents who want the government to do the parenting.

I am still lost for words.

I am still lost for words.

Two letters, PC.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Two letters, PC.

Agreed.

[CB..]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Two letters, PC.

yup never was there a more obvious example of the sheer moral lobotomy that is Political Correctness...they can visit in-sane acts of extreme violence upon each other with no problem at all....but light a ciggerette and the sky falls in..it is Orwellian

[snowsub]

Are taxpayers paying anyones wage to go though these old shows just to look for thing to censor

[Pax Melmacia]

T&J still shows in the Asian Cartoon Network. Funny that smoking became an issue, but no one has said anything about 'Mammy', the voluble, lumbering, faceless African-American woman who comes out in early episodes, complete with stereotype accent. (Oddly, later episodes shows the same figure speaking with a thick Irish brogue . . .)

By coincidence, The Daily Show aired just such a Mammy clip from T&J after showing another old clip from The Flinstones puffing away happily on their sponsor's cigarettes.

[Konovalov]

I heard about this story in the car this morning on the way to work and all I can say is, well, what can you say.

Is the Government looking to take over our responsibilites as parents? If so then perhaps their air is to free up our personal time to pursue more important activities such as improving our golf game or sinking that pesky ship or sub in our favourite subsim.

If you really want to be politically incorrect with your kids then I can thoroughly suggest the following. Go to your local bookshop and purchase the book titled "The Dangerous Book for Boys". It is a breath of fresh air in these times and reminds me a little of my fun childhood. I have a copy on one of my bookshelves to pass onto my future son/daughter if I should be so lucky to be blessed with them insh'allah. It's probably not a girls cup of tea unless she is a bit of a tom-boy.

Amazon review: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...66239&v=glance

A great book even for adaults. Keep it on the coffee table and it will be sure to generate discussion.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Two letters, PC.

Yeah, I got a PC too. Has a couple monitors, HD, etc. :p All kids should get one who are worried about PC! Nothing censored there!

[CB..]

the problem with Political Correctness is self explanatory..it is that what is deemed correct is decided by Politics and Politicains....in those cirumstances anything can be correct and anything can be incorrect..and it is all governed by what is considered politicaly expedient by the party in power...(and in that case there is an argument for saying that ,regardless of any other consideration, the holocaust was in fact politicaly correct....very dodgy stuff indeed when given it's full leg room) IMO

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Two letters, PC.

I hate politically correctness, its one of the worst things western civilization has adopted.
It reminds me of Demolition Man (bad flick, but it was dead-on as a parody on modern politically correct societies).

[Pax Melmacia]

It reminds me of Demolition Man

I recall a better one. I forget what movie it was ('Escape to LA' comes to mind), but the trailer begins with an announcement flashed on the screen exhorting moviegoers not to smoke, talk, eat red meat, etc. All for our own good, of course.

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by waste gate

Here in the US Tom and Jerry, along with the Three Stooges and many other serial shows have been cencored to protect the young and promote the slack willed parents who want the government to do the parenting.

To the best of my knowledge, the US government has not censored anything. The studios themselves have censored clips due to such things as "Sambo" and "blackface" stereotype images of blacks, as an example, that were still common in the 30's and 40's.

[STEED]

Tom and Jerry look like they are heading to the cutting room here in England.

It's 1984

[CB..]

Originally Posted by STEED

Tom and Jerry look like they are heading to the cutting room here in England.

It's 1984

we allready have people being condemned to an early death by a governmental organisation called N.I.C.E.
meantime we are prompted to be more morally outraged by the "bad example" given by cartoon characters smoking..
it doesn't get any more orwellian than that AFAIK :hmm:
it scares the hell out of me..