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This is the problem right here. And I saw it at work on my son (he escaped)

I hope this is sarcasm… it seemed obvious to me! Wanted another season *really* badly. Westworld too (same basic situation except feminist/POC rather than LGBT).

I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.

It’s the disastrous endgame of a situation in which our youngest WASP generations have been inadvertently allowed to grow up identifying with bigots—in a way I don’t think they actually had in the decades before (thread):

This couldn’t be farther from the truth, but a confluence of events opened a space for it to become conventional wisdom for a lot of people. And the next step, obviously, is for real Nazis to intimidate media away from accurately calling them Nazis. For that, too, must be an anti-white conspiracy. 🤦🏻

from the view that the fight against old-school white racism was everybody’s fight, and into a new view—pushed initially by millennial neo-Nazis in the mid-2010s, but then by much more prominent figures—that traditional antiracism was in fact a conspiracy to make *all* white people look bad. >

The combined effect of these changes was that after a certain point, white kids were raised with no easily-accessible images of bigots in entertainment except funny ones who could be perceived—if you were young enough—as viewer ID characters. This created a green audience ready to be tricked away >

in all-ages adventure movies and comedies, as he and others had done for decades. Over about ten years following, IP owners reacted by slowly agreeing, often by restricting older anti-Nazi media from reissue or from rebroadcast during kids’ viewing hours. I think this was actually a huge mistake. >

but inadvertently gave underage audiences the unintended message that bigotry was inherently entertaining. Pair this with another problem—that after SCHINDLER’S LIST, Spielberg famously announced that he now considered it inappropriately frivolous/trivializing to make Nazis the bad guys >

After 2010, an increasing number of Gen Z kids had grown up on a new, edgelord-ish media actually aimed at adults, focusing on hilarious bigot characters, often animated—Cartman, Peter Griffin—who were intended to look humiliating (and did, to the intended viewership), >

@wagatwe.bsky.social Another part, I think, is that through around 2010, minorities’ battle against white racism was framed in movies, TV and other media as a fight against uncool jerks that any smart, cool, empathetic person—including nonracist whites—could ally with and live vicariously through. >

OFMD s3 was, I’m simply presuming, canceled by Zaslav’s bagman Malone as penalty for being both queer and successful (the worst crime is, apparently, going woke and being successful, disproving the fat cat’s claim that you’d go broke).

Bugs: "Eh, I contain multitudes, doc." Daffy: "Yeah? Well, you sthshould see how much *Porky* can eat!"

Incredibly, more. At least the droogs, while inappropriate for children, are from a cyberpunkish story of (what was then) the distant future. Having Baby Jane in there is like having Norma Desmond.

It's so full of wit. "Can you taste the difference," an ad slogan for booze... and "Porkykarkus" (not just Parkyakarkus, but "porky carcass")... and then there's Porky imagining that when turned to stone, he'll be a piggy bank; I wonder if the entire cartoon was born as an excuse to use that gag.

No, because animation never picked really up the Beep Beep naming. (Not-so exceptions: the Tiny Toons character Little Beeper was named while Beep Beep print products were still current, so could be a reference; in the Francosphere, the Road Runner has almost always been "Bip Bip" in animation.)

Well, yes and no: Yes: in the comics—originally written by Michael Maltese—and other print media, the bird's name was Beep Beep for decades (and sometimes even "Poppa Beep," as he was called in children's book narratives to distinguish him from the "little Beeps," the otherwise unnamed kids). >

(not to take away from the profound sadness that your original captured, to which mine doesn't hold a candle. Good thing too, with all this easily-ignitable ACME dynamite around.)

Flawless, and you also gave me the only possible origin story for Mike Maltese's old comics continuity

It's not a coincidence that they are attempting to recast a woman popularly seen (including by myself) as one of *the world's most beautiful* as ugly.