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

[jgsugden]

(and they seem to have overlooked the episode where Pierce paints his hand in - explicitly - blackface).

 

[R_J_K75]

(and they seem to have overlooked the episode where Pierce paints his hand in - explicitly - blackface).

Pretty sure the entire character of Pierce will be digitally removed from the whole series by weeks end.

 

[Zardnaar]

Pierce and Chang are basically the villains though. They're not nice people.

 

[Charlaquin]

Damn, that was one of the best episodes of Community, and one of the best D&D episodes of any show. It also seems like a strange decision to me. Like, I’m not black, so I’m not really in a position to say whether or not the blackface in that episode is really offensive or not, but to me it comes across as lampooning the idea that drow cosplay is meaningfully different than blackface. It’s the Changs of the world who are the butt of the joke there, not black folks.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Elmer J Fudd can no longer be depicted with a gun, SMH.

The very first new Looney Tunes cartoon released this year (Warner Brothers is doing the same thing Disney is and unleashing today's animators on their characters) has Elmer shooting at Bugs.

EDIT: Whoops, it's a scythe.

 

[R_J_K75]

The very first new Looney Tunes cartoon released this year (Warner Brothers is doing the same thing Disney is and unleashing today's animators on their characters) has Elmer shooting at Bugs.

I just read an article about a week and a half ago stating moving forward he will not have a gun and pretty sure the cartoon that was referenced in the article he did not, so this may have been a recent decision.

 

[Mercurius]

I can hear George Carlin moaning in his grave. I love satire, I'm for comedic and creative freedom. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Simple enough.

 

[Charlaquin]

Why does anyone care if Elmer Fudd has a gun?

 

[Orcslayer78]

Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission
(V for Vendetta 2006)

That's what America has become, a moral police dictatorship where thoughts and art get censored.

 

[R_J_K75]

Why does anyone care if Elmer Fudd has a gun?

Because he is a hunter and hes carried one since the characters conception and now the core identity of the character has changed.