LMAO

It gets worse – I heard that the Fraggle Rock characters actually spit on a black congressman during a Tea Party protest. Ok, that didn’t really happen either, but that doesn’t make it any less true!

It says a lot about the victim mentality running through our culture when people are hearing racist epithets where none exist. One also recalls the Hallmark Hoop & Yoyo card controversy and “niggardly”. And that doesn’t even count all the politically motivated charges about “dog whistles” and such.

I guess reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies or Sanford and Son would never be allowed today. Politicians want to put everyone in an ethnic box but no one wants their group made fun of. Even the Rednecks are starting to push back.

Some moron said the same thing about an old Donald Duck cartoon. People are dumb.

One of the funniest movies I ever saw was “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” starring the Wayans brothers. I bet if a modern day liberals saw that movie, their heads would explode.

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Sanford and Son, and the Beverly Hillbillies. Two of my favorites. Television used to be so much more fun back then – now it’s nothing but toilet humor. You have to pull in shows from the UK if you want anything even remotely resembling a good comedy, drama, or anything else.

Jeez, talk about looking to be slighted.  This Keith White guy sounds like one pissed off goof. 

GET OFF THE COUCH KEVIN AND GET A JOB!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO just like Cookie Monster promotes obesity, Oscar the Grouch poor hygine and Bert & Ernie promote a gay life style (rolls eyes) tell Kevin White get a REAL job there is no money to be made off of your Daughters emotionally distress from hearing the name GOBO  80′s cartoon law suit!

Come on? You can’t clearly make a controversy out of this with a straight face. lol

Is Keith “White” black? If so, his name is what made him an insane Jigaboo

Funny, I don’t see where it mentions that he’s unemployed.  Is that the benefit of being racist?  That you can know these things without having to be told?

Coming from someone who’s name is Douche.

Jeez, talk about overstating the case.  This IAlwaysDrinkBeer guy sounds like he didn’t listen to the story.  He wasn’t “pissed off.”  Annoyed. Offended.  Indignant, sure.  Not “one pissed-off goof.”

And which part of the original comment was Racist?

The Story is self explanatory!

If Kevin had a job or a life if he wouldn’t have had all this time on his hands to create a
 ”Fraggle Rock Controversy”

 He had time to rewind several times, He had time to contact the media and then time to sit down and speak to the Media!

Sorry no “Pay Day” From the Fraggles!

If he wasn’t fishing for a “Pay Day” then he would have contacted The Jim Henson Company directly instead of a local media outlet.

At the end of the day the Fraggles aren’t racist and Kevin White is sitting on his couch looking like a fool with egg on his face!

This is what is wrong with the world today everyone looking for a big pay out & people who are like minded running around calling Jim Henson, The Fraggles and everyone else a racist!

PS Kevin good luck on your crusade I hear the Smurfs are an easy target!

Who knew Fraggle Rock could ever be considered controversial?  And just who’s mining old episodes of 80s puppet shows looking for signs of racism and why?  Oh, a conservative Texan who’s likely thumping his bible and chest at the same time.  I guess if you’re from a state where it’s common to put racial slurs on a rock it’s normal to find a racial slur in Fraggle “Rock.”

poor Gobo, the man’s always keepin him down.

Which part was “racist”?  Okay, I’ll tell you:

1. The presumption that an African-American man who happens to be watching TV with his daughter must be lazy and unemployed. 

2. The presumption that the man wasn’t simply offended by the use of a racial slur but looking for a quick buck.

You clearly don’t have a problem with making generalizations– not just about race but about a species (e.g., “This is what is wrong with the world today”).  But you should at least realize that it’s not because the story was “self-explanatory.”  It’s because you have prejudices.  You pre-judged this man before you had all the facts.

LOL at least they said, “we’re sorry”.  Gotta love how Mediaite is now reporting stuff that stoners scour Youtube for at 3am. 

I’m not a “PC” guy and a total Conservative but he is definitely saying Jigaboo… lol…

AMAZING….Way back in the 80s….the Fraggle Rock characters knew who was going to be President today..

“People are dumb”

People meaning you, and about every one of the other wingers posting comments on this manipulated fake controversy made from stupid on stupid.

What this post shows is that Nando di Fino might as well be a James O’Keefe stringer for an Andrew Breitbart knock off. The whole POINT to this is to exploit the ignorance of a) the SUPPOSED watcher of the TV show – a CHILD b) the SUPPOSED adult parent of that child c) the reader of the original story d) the local news channel that ran the “story” in the first place e) the Hub – who are not the creators but in fact simply the current corporate owners of the copyright to Fraggle Rock f) Mediaite g) di Fino h) winger readers at this site and i) you.

Every one on that list has has been ‘had’, taken in by a nothing con, exploited by your own gullibility and hubris.

Read the story carefully, properly, with a skeptical eye: the people who made the show did nothing wrong, no matter what the era; the alleged child is a freaking CHILD, and still wasn’t taken in; the alleged parent is both ignorant and with terrible hearing – and if the parent DOES exist then is completely ignorant of the well-known scientifically investigated phenomenon concerning how the brain works to “anticipate” or guess in advance sounds – seriously, there is lots and lots of science on sound illusions, just go to any illusions website and read on; the Hub somehow ‘conceding’ the alleged parent’s stupid fake non-complaint “complaint” is only believable because the Hub has nothing invested in the Fraggle Rock show except money – the Hub’s ownership does not amount to creative responsibility or comprehension, just franchise ownership; Mediaite employs di Fino and allows this story to be published here in THIS manner; di Fino, with no ability to find real stories only fake stories and no skill in conveying their proper meang; and you and your fellow wingers, PREDICTABLY, whipping your own ignorant hillbilly stupidity into a frenzy over ‘stupid infuryer libruls’ and then actually POSTING your self-deluded nonsense.

Well done; you have discovered some parts of the mechanism by which wingers get manipulated into turning into zombies culture warriors with cardboard spears and rubber guns.

Well done for you catching another chemical component to this non-story.

Annnnnnnnnnd cut and print it: See, there it is – genuine frontier American gibberish THINKING at work.

Mission accomplished Mediaite – you have plumbed the depths of the ignorance and stupidity of your winger readership and have MARKED TWAIN.

My gawd….cocoa-boy…..Take a Prozac.
You “assume” that she was inferring that  all black men  black men who are watching tv with their daughters are lazy.
NOT SO!!!
Just the majority of them.
You overreacted.

Yeah, I’m guessing you’re not the best person to defend QueponMom’s racial sensitivities.

Are you one of the Tea-party folks that gets offended when accused of racism?

Also, how did I overreact?  She asked a question; I gave an answer.  (For this I require Prozac?)  Furthermore, I don’t know that she thinks “all black men who are watching TV with their daughters are lazy.”  Clearly she thinks enough of them are that she believes this one is without having any additional knowledge.  I’d return the favor and offer you a medication recommendation but I don’t know that there’s a pill that cures ignorance.

Speaking of “victim mentality,”  how about people who whine about being attacked “by politically motivated charges about ‘dog whistles’ and such”?  They’re the real victims here.

Then if you think this is such a fake story then don’t headline idiot and moron. Since your wrong and your claims which are lies baseless.

Nope no racial slur in Fraggle Rock. Just what person thought he heard I agree with what The Hub said in there statement. 

If Mel Brooks tried to make “Blazing Saddles” in 2011, he would be run out of Hollywood on a rail. 

I hate political correctness, tolerance, diversity, sensitivity training, and cultural marxism.

Only when it comes from a racist, hypocritical cocoa boy.

So do you mean that in the we-all-have-our-racist-instincts and we-all-are-guilty-of-hypocrisy sort of way.  Or have I offered explicit evidence of these offenses?  If the latter, I’m curious what it is.

Way to waste the race card.
It’s like falsely calling rape, or faking a UFO video.Now you’ve ruined it for all the times it truly needs to be pointed out.

Wow. You must be quite the offensive pig to hang out with.

Context:

Africa for the Africans,Asia for the Asians,white countries for EVERYBODY!

Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

How long would it take anyone to realise I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist.What they are is anti-white.

Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white.
 

Is it racist to assume that someone wearing a sleeveless t-shirt is unemployed?  

I know society deems it “wrong” to make judgements based on appearance but this is naive.  People “discriminate” all of the time, based on experience and empirical evidence, in order to make decision and draw what we perceive to be proper conclusions.  If you disagree with this just look at the car you drive, place you live, clothes you wear.  All of these choices, and many more, are the result of some form of “discrimination” where you chose between available options.  With knowledge of the choices available we can make assumptions, or heuristics, about the choices others make with regard to the same items (i.e. sleeveless t-shirts).

On an even money bet I would be happy to wager that the man featured in this video is unemployed, why?  First, the male unemployment/workforce participation rate are high and low, respectfully.  But more importantly when a film crew notifies me that they are coming over to shoot a piece for the nightly news most members of society are going to make an attempt to look “presentable,” which in my book demands sleeves.

Your assumption about QueponMom, could be accurate, but I drew the exact same conclusion, and I can guarantee that my assumption had nothing to do with skin tone.  Your accusations of prejudice are no different from the one you committed.  ”People in glass houses…”  

The utimate offense: to say a naughty word.

You should probably look again at the meaning of the “glass houses” adage.  That aside, fine, there is a possibility that she drew these conclusions based on the fact that he wore a sleeveless t-shirt and watched TV with his daughter.  Race MAY have had nothing to do with it.  However it’s one thing to draw  conclusions based on limited information and another to believe those conclusions are “self-evident” or, in QMom’s words, “self-explanatory.”  And still another thing to see those assumptions as grounds for belittling the guy.