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MayaMia's avatar

Let's face it. We are a nation of tattle tales. As a child, if I "ratted out" my cousins, my parents would chide me rather than them. "No one likes a tattle tale," my dad would say. I could feel my face turn red and the shame was far worse than the shove my cousin gave me that knocked me to the ground. My father's lesson in ethics sunk in.

The age of the wisecrack is over; it is equated to a minstrel show in the eyes of the young and the woke. Watch an episode of Seinfeld and count how many truly hilarious moments would be viewed as sexist, racist, etc. by today's standards.

Thank you, Bari for starting Common Sense. I don't always like or agree with the essays published but I thank God they are being published.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

Snitches get stitches....except now they get "likes" from the other Blue Checks

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MayaMia's avatar

It's considered a career path. Making yourself appear better by destroying a target.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

boy howdy, too bad I have to work for a living instead of looking for malfeasance on Twitter

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Marie's avatar

Can you imagine the snowflakes’ reaction to an episode of The Little Rascals or The Three Stooges? Imagine their freak out over All in the Family.

Bunch of weak patsies IMO.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Stymie and Buckwheat? OMG. I'd pay to see that. Farina, too.

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Pbr's avatar

SNL with Richard prior, and Eddie Murphy?

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Stuart Nachman's avatar

I would add Amos & Andy to the list.

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Madjack's avatar

Read the “sellout” by Paul Beatty. Amazing racial satire. First American to win the Booker prize.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Thanks for that. I’ll check it out

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MayaMia's avatar

Even uber liberal, Norman Lear, was smart enough to make Archie's meathead

son-in-law the occasional object of ridicule. After all, that character was living off his wife's family and she was supporting his education. Woke writers today don't have the creativity or intelligence to do that. (Many of Lear's other works were not given the nuanced treatment.)

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Madjack's avatar

True comedy pokes fun in ALL directions

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