TV Land, the Warner Bros./Viacom-owned cable station, has pulled The Dukes Of Hazzard” from its lineup of shows, because the Dukes\’ car has a confederate flag on it.
The confederate flag, you see, is too offensive to be shown.
According to Kip Jones\’ article at breitbart.com, “WB announced the move as major retailers Walmart, Amazon, eBay, and Sears all introduced bans on the sale of Confederate flag merchandise in the wake of Dylann Roof’s Charleston, SC shooting rampage at a black church”
I have a question for TV Land: Are you going to be turning down advertising from every retailer which sells che guevara merchandise?
che guevara, apart from being a heartless mass-murderer, was a stone-cold racist who thought of Black people as unhygienic and indolent (lazy). An exact quote, straight from his “Motorcycle Diaries” (bold print is mine):
“The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese. And the two ancient races have now begun a hard life together, fraught with bickering and squabbles. Discrimination and poverty unite them in the daily fight for survival but their different ways of approaching life separate them completely: The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”
That racist enough for you?
And will you be turning down advertising from every retailer which sells nazi merchandise (I\’m assuming I don\’t have to put up any quotes to refresh your memory about what nazis did)?
Because, if so, there goes the sanctimonious Amazon. And ebay. And Walmart. And Sears. See, every one of those four sells che guevara merchandise. And two – amazon and ebay – currently sell nazi merchandise as well. Both Walmart and Sears also used to sell nazi – Sears as recently as late last year.
The hypocrisy and sanctimony of TV Land – and of Amazon, ebay, Walmart, Sears, and, I am guessing, a whole bunch more just like them – is so thick you wouldn\’t need a knife to cut through it, you\’d need a chain saw.
