Starting Early
Now that I'm an adult, the appearance of the things that I loved as a kid has really took a turn for the worse. I recently watched G.I Joe, and it brought to mind the things that I used to watch when growing up, this in turn inspired a quick backtrack to look at many of the shows I watched when I was little.
Loony Toons obviously wasn't held to the same moral standards of today's TV programming, but how far the content goes into the depths of violence and racism is amazing. Everybody knows the routine of Looney Toons being hammers, guns, knives, and generally one character trying to kill the other character in any imaginable way. On top of that the characters in the cartoon are sometimes horrendously racist. I remember specifically a cartoon of Daffy Duck vs. a Nazi Commander, who was characterized by a crow, wore a monocle, and ziet hieled every minute or so in the half hour special. Other racist characters are to numerous to quantify, though almost all of them are of non white minorities.
The other cartoon series that I watched were not quite as blatantly racist, but were equally violent, and possibly worse on the moral compass as they often had blatant propaganda. G.I Joe falls all of these categories, as U.S army Joes defeating the enemies of Freedom and Democracy everywhere by fighting Russians and Middle Eastern people. The glorification of the American army and war in general is something you can't help but be disturbed by as an adult. Transformers was something similar, glorifying war, but instead of marketing for the Army, it marketed for the GM cars that all of the characters transformed into, with the exception of the Dinosaurs and the radio.
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2.that in which anything culminates; the culminating position or stage; highest point; acme.
3.Astronomy. the position of a celestial body when it is on the meridian.
Loony Toons obviously wasn't held to the same moral standards of today's TV programming, but how far the content goes into the depths of violence and racism is amazing. Everybody knows the routine of Looney Toons being hammers, guns, knives, and generally one character trying to kill the other character in any imaginable way. On top of that the characters in the cartoon are sometimes horrendously racist. I remember specifically a cartoon of Daffy Duck vs. a Nazi Commander, who was characterized by a crow, wore a monocle, and ziet hieled every minute or so in the half hour special. Other racist characters are to numerous to quantify, though almost all of them are of non white minorities.
The other cartoon series that I watched were not quite as blatantly racist, but were equally violent, and possibly worse on the moral compass as they often had blatant propaganda. G.I Joe falls all of these categories, as U.S army Joes defeating the enemies of Freedom and Democracy everywhere by fighting Russians and Middle Eastern people. The glorification of the American army and war in general is something you can't help but be disturbed by as an adult. Transformers was something similar, glorifying war, but instead of marketing for the Army, it marketed for the GM cars that all of the characters transformed into, with the exception of the Dinosaurs and the radio.
Suppositor: An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
culmination: 1.the act or fact of culminating.
2.that in which anything culminates; the culminating position or stage; highest point; acme.
3.Astronomy. the position of a celestial body when it is on the meridian.
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