D&D General Netflix pulls Community's Dungeons & Dragons episode over blackface concerns

[Li Shenron]

This is utterly ridiculous regarding the Community episode. This gotten way out of hand and seems theres no end in sight, next theyll pull the entire run of All in the Family, the Jeffersons, etc, until all thats left is Mr Rogers and Sesame Street. Elmer J Fudd can no longer be depicted with a gun, SMH. Let people think for themselves FFS.

What is ridiculous is that we still have millions of black people discriminated on work, health and justice matters, and now millions of white people complain THEY are being discriminated because a bunch of movies are being redacted.

 

[Sadras]

A Police Officer kneeled on an Innocent Man’s Neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, killing the human being they were sworn to protect, and depriving George Floyd of the Right to Trial, let alone Life and Liberty.

The above is real and needs to be dealt with properly.
Pulling an episode for a satirical joke is window dressing.

EDIT: Identify the real problem. Treat the real problem.

 

[Sadras]

What is ridiculous is that we still have millions of black people discriminated on work, health and justice matters, and now millions of white people complain THEY are being discriminated because a bunch of movies are being redacted.

Who are these millions of white people who complain THEY are being discriminated against?

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Keeping these archetypes in mind one can use them to explore themes like racism, colonialism, exceptionalism, religious bigotry etc. of characters that descend from those races.

Apparently, a lot of people, whether dealing with fantasy or reality, only want to try to erase everything and act like it never happened. That will just make a lot of it happen again. The people actually affected by all this are trying to confront it and fix it, so that they can have better lives for themselves and their children, while a bunch of white people act all offended and try to erase things and then go back to their normal lives thinking that they have fixed the world because they got some blackface episodes removed or made Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben disappear.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Who are these millions of white people who complain THEY are being discriminated against?

This thread already has some borderline stuff that will probably get moderated, and unfortunately any answer to this will go way over the no politics line.

 

[Li Shenron]

I would argue it also functions as a safety valve.

Driving it underground just bottles it up. Pressure builds and we have what weve got now.

Well that's been debated for a long time in psychology. For example, do very violent movies provide relief to people who harbor anger, or do they provide example? It's not easy to tell.

 

[Sadras]

This thread already has some borderline stuff that will probably get moderated, and unfortunately any answer to this will go way over the no politics line.

That does not mean the answer is correct either just because one cannot provide it.

 

[Deset Gled]

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[Li Shenron]

Apparently, a lot of people, whether dealing with fantasy or reality, only want to try to erase everything and act like it never happened. That will just make a lot of it happen again. The people actually affected by all this are trying to confront it and fix it, so that they can have better lives for themselves and their children, while a bunch of white people act all offended and try to erase things and then go back to their normal lives thinking that they have fixed the world because they got some blackface episodes removed or made Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben disappear.

Removing a product label or censoring a movie might be an overreaction, but at least someone is trying to address the problem. This is not going to "erase" anything.

The real "erasing" comes from people who insist there is no problem. Of course there is no problem for them since they're white. There are only advantages if you're not in a discriminated group. In my country, there are plenty of cases of black immigrants with the same high university degree as mine who end up picking tomatoes as a job... of course there is no problem for me, I get less competition AND cheap tomatoes!

 

[Sadras]

Ask them yourself...

This is not about white people being discriminated against.
You're very much missing the point - even the answer you provided in quotes reflects that.