{"id":8724,"date":"2002-09-29T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2002-09-29T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/29\/looney-censorship\/"},"modified":"2002-09-29T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2002-09-29T16:24:31","slug":"looney-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/looney-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Looney Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Classic cartoons originally produced between the 1930s<br \/>\nand 1950s and a television staple for the baby boomer generation, are being<br \/>\nedited for offensive material today &#8220;because of a politically correct white<br \/>\nmentality,&#8221; according to a cartoon historian. The sanitized cartoons feature<br \/>\nBugs Bunny, Tom &amp; Jerry and a host of Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies<br \/>\ncharacters.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;&#8221;If we are going to start censoring jokes because<br \/>\npeople are offended, like the whole Mr. Magoo controversy where blind people<br \/>\nwere offended, name me a cartoon character that doesn&#8217;t offend someone,&#8221; Beck<br \/>\nsaid.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;Bugs Bunny will be attacked because he is from Brooklyn.<br \/>\nThe Brooklyn people don&#8217;t like him making fun of their accent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The<br \/>\nNRA will be against Elmer Fudd because he is a bad hunter,&#8221; he added.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Beck noted that Fudd&#8217;s depiction, as a redneck hunter<br \/>\nwith a speech impediment has not been censored, despite being possibly offensive<br \/>\nto some. &#8220;Unfortunately, at the moment, it&#8217;s okay to make fun of white guys. You<br \/>\ncan do anything you want to white guys,&#8221; he said.<\/font> <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200209%5CCUL20020927b.html\">Full<br \/>\narticle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/looney.toonzone.net\/ltcuts\/\">The CENSORED<br \/>\nCARTOONS Page<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain, Flannery O&#8217;Connor, and now Bugs and<br \/>\nDaffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classic cartoons originally produced between the 1930s and 1950s and a television staple for the baby boomer generation, are being edited for offensive material today &#8220;because of a politically correct&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}