What happened to freedom of speech on television?

Look st television shows from the 1970s and earlier.

Shows like All In The Family, The Jefferson's, Good Times

They used words like honky, colored, black, whitey, spick, beaner, wetback and so on. The audience didn't get offended, instead gave these shows awards.

But if they try to put a television show like them on today. They would be attack like a Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

We live in authoritarian times

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Pretzel · 70-79, M

humor is a really complicated thing isn't it?

a lot of humor from that time period was based on sterotypes and bigotry.

remember in the 80s when the joke about asian tourists is that they had cameras and took pictures of everything?

I listen to podcasts with dana carvey and david sapde - and they comment on how difficult it is to be funny these days. One comment could get you in major trouble and on all sorts of social media sites - getting you "cancelled".

HumanEarth · F

@Pretzel Your right it all feat today and hairy men wearing dresses to walk the goat down the street

JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F

@Pretzel How cancelled are they if they have a platform to whine about being cancelled and being unable to be funny?

Are they really cancelled?

This is a thread of old men lamenting that they can't say racist words anymore.

And how that was the ONLY thing funny ever and now...we CAN'T BE FUNNY?!?!

Take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are proud of this behavior. If so, let yourself know you are a bigot.

It IS funny...Spade and Carvey....their best pal who died of a drug overdose never had to use bigoted humor to make people laugh.

All in the family was a story about a bigoted man who learned some hard lessons in truth about that bigotryand racism. It is the whole reason Carol O'Connor did the show and you guys seemed to have missed the lessons he learned and are nostalgic iver the terrible bigoted and racists terms used that were "funny"

The racist word used against white people were direct response to racism against Black people. It was a lesson ypu were supposed to be learning that you missed. Flew right over your head.

Bumbles · 56-60, M

@Pretzel @HumanEarth @JaggedLittlePill I’d love to know what Dana Carvey and David Spade would love to do, but simply can’t because of self-censorship. Well, if they are so upset they can go full MAGA like Rob Schneider whose whole act is about what he can’t say. 🙄

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Pretzel :-)

In Britain, that 1980s joke about camera-wielding tourists was applied to Americans as well as Asians! (I think we saw more of the former, in those days.)

Pretzel · 70-79, M

@ArishMell and no doubt we were wearings shorts and socks with our sandals :)

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Pretzel LOL! Oh, I don't know about that. I don't think I met very many but they were all dressed quite well. The Bermuda shorts and sandals was probably a cartoon stereotype.

HoeBag · 46-50, F

@Pretzel

remember in the 80s when the joke about asian tourists is that they had cameras and took pictures of everything?

Someday we won't be allowed to mock the young women of today who take pictures on themselves non-stop. I mean Gyod it is so bad that most new phones have four cameras. What is the purpose of that? 🤨

HumanEarth · F

Look I don't care, I'll mock anybody.

I just don't give a shit

If this offends you, better block me now