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Cartoons. As odd as that may sound I've got a good reason. I love watching old Looney Toons and Tom & Jerry Cartoons. i watched some tonight after liquors had drunkened me and discovered something that pissed me off. I'm watching cartoons I've seen at least 50 times but something's differnet. In the Looney toons stuff, all of the references to "black-face" have been removed. In many of the Tom & Jerry episodes their owner happens to be a black woman. Her voice has been re-dubbed with a less "offensive" voice. And now you can't see any of the old Speedy Gonzalez movies because hispanics feel it's derogatory. F@ck all of that. It's history...those cartoons were made at a point in time where that wasn't considered offensive. It's like when I was in Germany...any and all references to WWII (aside from the concentration camp museums) were covered up. In their "history" museum, planes with swastikas on them were very obviously painted over. So we've gotten to the point where we're willing to sacrifice historical things to appease a small group of people. Not that cartoons are historic, but they're symbols of the times they were produced in. Sorry for the rant, it just pisses me off hat I have to watch modified versions of the cartoons I grew up with just to make a few people feel better about themselves.