"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner Brothers games announced last week.
In article <tfnqvt$2aaap$3@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner >> Brothers games announced last week.
So not only does the game teach that calling the cops on criminals is
somehow a bad thing, it justifies vigilantism by having civilians with
no law enforcement authority whatsoever literally shove people into
their van and kidnap them.
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
In article <tfnqvt$2aaap$3@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >>> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >>> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >>> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner
Brothers games announced last week.
So not only does the game teach that calling the cops on criminals is
somehow a bad thing, it justifies vigilantism by having civilians with
no law enforcement authority whatsoever literally shove people into
their van and kidnap them.
You do have to wonder what the gang does with the criminals if they won’t deal with the police…
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
In article <tfnqvt$2aaap$3@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent >>> the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. >>> gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >>> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >>> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling >>> the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >>> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away,"
Warner
Brothers games announced last week.
So not only does the game teach that calling the cops on criminals is
somehow a bad thing, it justifies vigilantism by having civilians with
no law enforcement authority whatsoever literally shove people into
their van and kidnap them.
You do have to wonder what the gang does with the criminals if they won’t deal with the police…
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner Brothers games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted Warner Brothers, stating, "Although historically, the Scooby Doo gang has (but not always) worked with the police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this cop car is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add meaning to her moveset. For decades, and especially in recent times, Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have suffered under police brutality and this cop car is ignoring the problem of police brutality in this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from Player First Games to please reconsider the ultimate art of the cop car chase to be replaced by the Mystery Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race around to catch the suspects in the cartoon," the petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in Multiversus but maining a character who's special move is calling the police on her enemies definitely don't sit right with me as a black man lol," adding, "'Get em sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that they weaponise their relative privilege against people of colour -- for example, when making police complaints against black people for minor or even -- in numerous cases -- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was introduced in July, garnered over 20 million users in the first month it was available.
On 2022-09-12 12:41 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent
the Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc.
gang solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential
criminals. But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing
precisely what had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted"
poster and calling the cops on characters from across the Warner Bros.
Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away,"
Warner Brothers games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted Warner Brothers,
stating, "Although historically, the Scooby Doo gang has (but not always)
worked with the police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this cop
car is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add meaning to her moveset. >> For decades, and especially in recent times, Black & Indigenous people of
color around the world have suffered under police brutality and this cop
car is ignoring the problem of police brutality in this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from Player First Games to
please reconsider the ultimate art of the cop car chase to be replaced by
the Mystery Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race
around to catch the suspects in the cartoon," the petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in Multiversus but
maining a character who's special move is calling the police on her
enemies definitely don't sit right with me as a black man lol," adding,
"'Get em sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that they weaponise
their relative privilege against people of colour -- for example, when
making police complaints against black people for minor or even -- in
numerous cases -- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was introduced in July,
garnered over 20 million users in the first month it was available.
20 million people played it and 34 complained so they made the change >requested by the miniscule number of complainers? It's going to be >interesting to see how the 20 million respond to this change. It's going
to be funny if many thousands of people now complain about the changes they >made to pander to the tiny handful of complainers - and play something else >instead. I think this is going to be another case of "go woke, go broke!"
On 9/12/2022 4:04 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
So not only does the game teach that calling the cops on criminals is
somehow a bad thing, it justifies vigilantism by having civilians with
no law enforcement authority whatsoever literally shove people into
their van and kidnap them.
You do have to wonder what the gang does with the criminals if they won't
deal with the police…
The 'Mystery Machine' is a Cuisinart...
On Sep 12, 2022 at 1:04:27 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:middle-aged guilt-ridden white woman, the most dangerous demographic in America-- was going door-to-door asking people to sign a pledge not to call
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
In article <tfnqvt$2aaap$3@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world haveWarner
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent >>> the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. >>> gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >>>> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >>>> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling >>> the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >>>> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away,"
Brothers games announced last week.
So not only does the game teach that calling the cops on criminals is
somehow a bad thing, it justifies vigilantism by having civilians with
no law enforcement authority whatsoever literally shove people into
their van and kidnap them.
You do have to wonder what the gang does with the criminals if they won’t >> deal with the police…
During the height of the BLM nonsense, one of the neighborhood busybodies-- a
I told her that if I caught someone breaking into my house orvandalizing/stealing from my car, regardless of race, I'd not only call the cops on them, I'd pre-tune them up before the cops got there, to make sure
If that old cartoon cliche of someone slowly turning red until steam startedblasting out of their ears was a real thing, this biddy was demonstrating
Never did see that discount though...
On 2022-09-12 12:41 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have20 million people played it and 34 complained so they made the change requested
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner >> Brothers games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted Warner Brothers,
stating, "Although historically, the Scooby Doo gang has (but not always)
worked with the police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this cop car
is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add meaning to her moveset. For >> decades, and especially in recent times, Black & Indigenous people of color >> around the world have suffered under police brutality and this cop car is
ignoring the problem of police brutality in this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from Player First Games to
please reconsider the ultimate art of the cop car chase to be replaced by the
Mystery Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race around to >> catch the suspects in the cartoon," the petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in Multiversus but
maining a character who's special move is calling the police on her enemies >> definitely don't sit right with me as a black man lol," adding, "'Get em
sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that they weaponise their
relative privilege against people of colour -- for example, when making
police complaints against black people for minor or even -- in numerous cases
-- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was introduced in July,
garnered over 20 million users in the first month it was available.
by the miniscule number of complainers? It's going to be interesting to
see how the 20 million respond to this change. It's going to be funny if
many thousands of people now complain about the changes they made to
pander to the tiny handful of complainers - and play something else
instead. I think this is going to be another case of "go woke, go broke!"
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2022-09-12 12:41 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have20 million people played it and 34 complained so they made the change
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >>> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >>> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >>> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner
Brothers games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted Warner Brothers,
stating, "Although historically, the Scooby Doo gang has (but not always) >>> worked with the police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this cop car
is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add meaning to her moveset. For >>> decades, and especially in recent times, Black & Indigenous people of color >>> around the world have suffered under police brutality and this cop car is >>> ignoring the problem of police brutality in this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from Player First Games to >>> please reconsider the ultimate art of the cop car chase to be replaced by the
Mystery Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race around to >>> catch the suspects in the cartoon," the petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in Multiversus but >>> maining a character who's special move is calling the police on her enemies >>> definitely don't sit right with me as a black man lol," adding, "'Get em >>> sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that they weaponise their
relative privilege against people of colour -- for example, when making
police complaints against black people for minor or even -- in numerous cases
-- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was introduced in July,
garnered over 20 million users in the first month it was available.
requested
by the miniscule number of complainers? It's going to be interesting to
see how the 20 million respond to this change. It's going to be funny if
many thousands of people now complain about the changes they made to
pander to the tiny handful of complainers - and play something else
instead. I think this is going to be another case of "go woke, go broke!"
Back in the late great days of laser disk, s company was producing these
huge box sets, multi platter, multi hundreds of dollars. Of all the Looney Tunes cartoons. I believe it was called the golden age of Looney Tunes. One set had a World War II propaganda cartoon on it called “Bugs Bunny nips the nips“
They got one complaint, count them, one, from some mother in Ohio who didn’t think her kids should be seeing that cartoon.
They canceled and recalled and eradicated every copy in existence that they could (I still have mine) and said they were going to re-issue it without that one cartoon (I don’t know if they ever actually did).
One. Complaint.
One.
There are a lot of segments from it on the YouTube. Here’s one now!
https://youtu.be/qL0s0fEjnXg
Ian describes it in great detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_Nips_the_Nips?wprov=sfti1
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
On 2022-09-12 12:41 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world20 million people played it and 34 complained so they
have suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus"
last week to prevent the Scooby Doo character Velma from
calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown
The Mystery Inc. gang solving crimes and alerting police
to the presence of potential criminals. But critics have
recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely
what had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a
"wanted" poster and calling the cops on characters from
across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the
mystery and calls the Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery
Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner Brothers
games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted
Warner Brothers, stating, "Although historically, the
Scooby Doo gang has (but not always) worked with the
police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this
cop car is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add
meaning to her moveset. For decades, and especially in
recent times, Black & Indigenous people of color around
the world have suffered under police brutality and this
cop car is ignoring the problem of police brutality in
this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from
Player First Games to please reconsider the ultimate art
of the cop car chase to be replaced by the Mystery
Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race
around to catch the suspects in the cartoon," the
petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in
Multiversus but maining a character who's special move
is calling the police on her enemies definitely don't
sit right with me as a black man lol," adding, "'Get em
sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that
they weaponise their relative privilege against people
of colour -- for example, when making police complaints
against black people for minor or even -- in numerous
cases -- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was
introduced in July, garnered over 20 million users in
the first month it was available.
made the change requested
by the miniscule number of complainers? It's going to be
interesting to see how the 20 million respond to this
change. It's going to be funny if many thousands of
people now complain about the changes they made to pander
to the tiny handful of complainers - and play something
else instead. I think this is going to be another case of
"go woke, go broke!"
Back in the late great days of laser disk, s company was
producing these huge box sets, multi platter, multi
hundreds of dollars. Of all the Looney Tunes cartoons. I
believe it was called the golden age of Looney Tunes. One
set had a World War II propaganda cartoon on it called
?Bugs Bunny nips the nips? They got one complaint, count
them, one, from some mother in Ohio who didn?t think her
kids should be seeing that cartoon. They canceled and
recalled and eradicated every copy in existence that they
could (I still have mine) and said they were going to
re-issue it without that one cartoon (I don?t know if they
ever actually did).
One. Complaint.
One.
There are a lot of segments from it on the YouTube. Here?s
one now!
https://youtu.be/qL0s0fEjnXg
Ian describes it in great detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_Nips_the_Nips?wprov=sfti1
Back in the late great days of laser disk, s company was producing these
huge box sets, multi platter, multi hundreds of dollars. Of all the Looney >Tunes cartoons. I believe it was called the golden age of Looney Tunes. One >set had a World War II propaganda cartoon on it called “Bugs Bunny nips the >nips“
They got one complaint, count them, one, from some mother in Ohio who
didn’t think her kids should be seeing that cartoon.
They canceled and recalled and eradicated every copy in existence that they >could (I still have mine) and said they were going to re-issue it without >that one cartoon (I don’t know if they ever actually did).
One. Complaint.
One.
There are a lot of segments from it on the YouTube. Here’s one now!
https://youtu.be/qL0s0fEjnXg
Ian describes it in great detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_Nips_the_Nips?wprov=sfti1
In article <tfnqvt$2aaap$3@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner >> Brothers games announced last week.
So not only does the game teach that calling the cops on criminals is
somehow a bad thing, it justifies vigilantism by having civilians with
no law enforcement authority whatsoever literally shove people into
their van and kidnap them.
On 2022-09-12 8:15 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:It's like the idiocy of banning license plates that a single person
On 2022-09-12 12:41 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world have20 million people played it and 34 complained so they made the change
suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus" last week to prevent the
Scooby Doo character Velma from calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown The Mystery Inc. gang
solving crimes and alerting police to the presence of potential criminals. >>>> But critics have recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely what >>>> had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a "wanted" poster and calling the
cops on characters from across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the mystery and calls the >>>> Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner
Brothers games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted Warner Brothers, >>>> stating, "Although historically, the Scooby Doo gang has (but not always) >>>> worked with the police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this cop car
is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add meaning to her moveset. For >>>> decades, and especially in recent times, Black & Indigenous people of color
around the world have suffered under police brutality and this cop car is >>>> ignoring the problem of police brutality in this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from Player First Games to >>>> please reconsider the ultimate art of the cop car chase to be replaced by the
Mystery Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race around to >>>> catch the suspects in the cartoon," the petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in Multiversus but >>>> maining a character who's special move is calling the police on her enemies
definitely don't sit right with me as a black man lol," adding, "'Get em >>>> sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that they weaponise their
relative privilege against people of colour -- for example, when making >>>> police complaints against black people for minor or even -- in numerous cases
-- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was introduced in July, >>>> garnered over 20 million users in the first month it was available.
requested
by the miniscule number of complainers? It's going to be interesting to
see how the 20 million respond to this change. It's going to be funny if >>> many thousands of people now complain about the changes they made to
pander to the tiny handful of complainers - and play something else
instead. I think this is going to be another case of "go woke, go broke!" >>>
Back in the late great days of laser disk, s company was producing these
huge box sets, multi platter, multi hundreds of dollars. Of all the Looney >> Tunes cartoons. I believe it was called the golden age of Looney Tunes. One >> set had a World War II propaganda cartoon on it called “Bugs Bunny nips the
nips“
They got one complaint, count them, one, from some mother in Ohio who
didn’t think her kids should be seeing that cartoon.
They canceled and recalled and eradicated every copy in existence that they >> could (I still have mine) and said they were going to re-issue it without
that one cartoon (I don’t know if they ever actually did).
One. Complaint.
One.
There are a lot of segments from it on the YouTube. Here’s one now!
https://youtu.be/qL0s0fEjnXg
Ian describes it in great detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_Nips_the_Nips?wprov=sfti1
finds "offensive". I've mentioned several such cases from this country.
Why do we pander to this nonsense? Where is the great harm if a tiny
number of people are offended by something? Or even a large number of
people? I am CONSTANTLY offended by this "woke" crap and no one panders
to me. I complain and then live with it, rolling my eyes fairly
frequently, and life goes on. What is wrong with THAT as a model for living?
anim8rfsk wrote:
Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:I've got the VHS version of the WWII Looney Tunes cartoons
On 2022-09-12 12:41 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
"Black & Indigenous people of color around the world20 million people played it and 34 complained so they
have suffered under police brutality ..."
Warner Brothers altered the video game "MultiVersus"
last week to prevent the Scooby Doo character Velma from
calling the police.
For nearly 50 years, the Scooby Doo franchise has shown
The Mystery Inc. gang solving crimes and alerting police
to the presence of potential criminals. But critics have
recently labeled Velma a "Karen" for doing precisely
what had seemed innocent enough before, flashing a
"wanted" poster and calling the cops on characters from
across the Warner Bros. Discovery catalog.
"Instead of calling the police, Velma now solves the
mystery and calls the Mystery Inc. gang and the Mystery
Machine to take the bad guys away," Warner Brothers
games announced last week.
One petition that drew a bare 34 signatures lambasted
Warner Brothers, stating, "Although historically, the
Scooby Doo gang has (but not always) worked with the
police to catch the suspect within the cartoons, this
cop car is _not_ necessary in the game nor does it add
meaning to her moveset. For decades, and especially in
recent times, Black & Indigenous people of color around
the world have suffered under police brutality and this
cop car is ignoring the problem of police brutality in
this day in age."
"We the players of MultiVersus demand the devs from
Player First Games to please reconsider the ultimate art
of the cop car chase to be replaced by the Mystery
Machine van chase that Velma and her friends use to race
around to catch the suspects in the cartoon," the
petition continues.
In August, one YouTuber tweeted, "I am enjoying Velma in
Multiversus but maining a character who's special move
is calling the police on her enemies definitely don't
sit right with me as a black man lol," adding, "'Get em
sheriff!' that shit kills me Karen ultimate."
"Get em sheriff!" ?? that shit kills me
Karen ultimate
-- he who vibes (@NgObscure) August 1, 2022
"A predominant feature of the 'Karen' stereotype is that
they weaponise their relative privilege against people
of colour -- for example, when making police complaints
against black people for minor or even -- in numerous
cases -- fictitious infringements," the BBC explains.
According to VentureBeat, "MultiVersus," which was
introduced in July, garnered over 20 million users in
the first month it was available.
made the change requested
by the miniscule number of complainers? It's going to be
interesting to see how the 20 million respond to this
change. It's going to be funny if many thousands of
people now complain about the changes they made to pander
to the tiny handful of complainers - and play something
else instead. I think this is going to be another case of
"go woke, go broke!"
Back in the late great days of laser disk, s company was
producing these huge box sets, multi platter, multi
hundreds of dollars. Of all the Looney Tunes cartoons. I
believe it was called the golden age of Looney Tunes. One
set had a World War II propaganda cartoon on it called
?Bugs Bunny nips the nips? They got one complaint, count
them, one, from some mother in Ohio who didn?t think her
kids should be seeing that cartoon. They canceled and
recalled and eradicated every copy in existence that they
could (I still have mine) and said they were going to
re-issue it without that one cartoon (I don?t know if they
ever actually did).
One. Complaint.
One.
There are a lot of segments from it on the YouTube. Here?s
one now!
https://youtu.be/qL0s0fEjnXg
Ian describes it in great detail here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_Nips_the_Nips?wprov=sfti1
with some bozo narrator "explaining" them.
I'll have to re-check it out to see if the Nips cartoon
is included.
I also have the multi boxsets of the Golden Age of Looney
Tunes, but I doubt the Nips cartoon is on any of them
since the release dates are well past that one Ohio
person's complaints. I'll check 'em anyway.
Nyssa, who some day might actually get around to watching
all of those DVDs
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:15:56 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
. . .
I'm surprised there was only 1 cartoon that caused problems.
There are many many cartoons that one would expect to cause problems.
Racist times produce racist cinema.
And war produces propaganda, often racist.
A more recent (now about two decades old, BTW) custom appears to have
two parts:
1. Include clear and obvious statements on the packaging that the
contents may be disturbing/repulsive to some viewers.
2. Require he viewer to start each individual cartoon separately, so
kids can get ahold of it and just watch all of them in sequence.
Except for Disney. The Disney approach was bowlderization. Which
apparently had some hilarious results.
And those older cartoons that are out of copyright appear on many
DVDs. These things are out there.
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:15:56 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
. . .
I'm surprised there was only 1 cartoon that caused problems.
There are many many cartoons that one would expect to cause problems.
Racist times produce racist cinema.
Every time in history is a racist time. I have absolutely no doubt that >people in future will look down upon the inferiority of human social >structures and the way we entertain and communicate in the decades that
I've lived in. Of course we are also going to be laughing stocks.
And war produces propaganda, often racist.
That's unfair. The conflicts that led to WWII had absolutely nothing to
do with an adversarial relationship between the Empire of Japan and the >United States due to racism.
War is about KILLING THE ENEMY. They want to kill us. We want to kill
them. Propoganda is used to make the enemy as unsympathetic as possible. >Japan produced its own propoganda, none of which made the people of the >United States sympathetic.
There was racism versus Chinese immigrants to the western United States, >which was blatant. And yet, diplomatically and militarily, the United
States and China were allies prior to Mao's successful revolution.
A more recent (now about two decades old, BTW) custom appears to have
two parts:
1. Include clear and obvious statements on the packaging that the
contents may be disturbing/repulsive to some viewers.
2. Require he viewer to start each individual cartoon separately, so
kids can get ahold of it and just watch all of them in sequence.
Except for Disney. The Disney approach was bowlderization. Which
apparently had some hilarious results.
Good point
And those older cartoons that are out of copyright appear on many
DVDs. These things are out there.
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:15:56 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
. . .
I'm surprised there was only 1 cartoon that caused problems.
There are many many cartoons that one would expect to cause problems.
Racist times produce racist cinema.
Every time in history is a racist time. I have absolutely no doubt that >people in future will look down upon the inferiority of human social >structures and the way we entertain and communicate in the decades that
I've lived in. Of course we are also going to be laughing stocks.
And war produces propaganda, often racist.
That's unfair. The conflicts that led to WWII had absolutely nothing to
do with an adversarial relationship between the Empire of Japan and the >United States due to racism.
War is about KILLING THE ENEMY. They want to kill us. We want to kill
them. Propoganda is used to make the enemy as unsympathetic as possible. >Japan produced its own propoganda, none of which made the people of the >United States sympathetic.
There was racism versus Chinese immigrants to the western United States, >which was blatant. And yet, diplomatically and militarily, the United
States and China were allies prior to Mao's successful revolution.
--A more recent (now about two decades old, BTW) custom appears to have
two parts:
1. Include clear and obvious statements on the packaging that the
contents may be disturbing/repulsive to some viewers.
2. Require he viewer to start each individual cartoon separately, so
kids can get ahold of it and just watch all of them in sequence.
Except for Disney. The Disney approach was bowlderization. Which
apparently had some hilarious results.
Good point
And those older cartoons that are out of copyright appear on many
DVDs. These things are out there.
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:07:02 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:15:56 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
. . .
I'm surprised there was only 1 cartoon that caused problems.
There are many many cartoons that one would expect to cause problems.
Racist times produce racist cinema.
Every time in history is a racist time. I have absolutely no doubt that >>people in future will look down upon the inferiority of human social >>structures and the way we entertain and communicate in the decades that >>I've lived in. Of course we are also going to be laughing stocks.
Looks like I punched a button here.
And war produces propaganda, often racist.
That's unfair. The conflicts that led to WWII had absolutely nothing to
do with an adversarial relationship between the Empire of Japan and the >>United States due to racism.
Looks like I punched a button here too.
The Naval Attache to Japan, in the late 30s, reported faithfully to
his superior that Japan had an aircraft that could beat the socks off
of anything the USA had. That superior, a racist who believed that no
yellow man could do anything better than any white man, trashed the
report. One reason for the success of Japanese aviation in the early
part of the war was because of /our/ racism towards /them/.
War is about KILLING THE ENEMY. They want to kill us. We want to kill
them. Propoganda is used to make the enemy as unsympathetic as possible. >>Japan produced its own propoganda, none of which made the people of the >>United States sympathetic.
Wow, that button must have been pressed real hard!
My maternal grandparents had their house egged in WWI because their
name (Steinhoff) was German. You might want to look at how Germans
were portrayed, and realize that racism applied to the various other
"white" races as well as to all the others.
There was racism versus Chinese immigrants to the western United States, >>which was blatant. And yet, diplomatically and militarily, the United >>States and China were allies prior to Mao's successful revolution.
Diplomacy is not domestic behavior.
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