@gambrel saidExcuse me I'm arguing with my girlfriend 😒
Many people don't know season 3 had a different actor playing the lead role. A contract dispute lead to Clayton Moore being replaced by John Hart. Moore got the part back for season 4 untill the end of the show.
@gambrel saidWhaaaat? Marlon Perkins, too?? Boy, that really shatters my illusion of an idyllic childhood.
So many of the old shows had objectionable content. Mutual of Omaha's wild Kingdom for instance basically had staged animal fights, and this stuff's being shown today.
BTW, the dolphin which played Flipper was female.
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@moonbus saidFlipper self identified as male, so it's okay today, but caused such on set problems back in the 60s producers decided to scrap the show.
Whaaaat? Marlon Perkins, too?? Boy, that really shatters my illusion of an idyllic childhood.
BTW, the dolphin which played Flipper was female.
@moonbus saidPerkins regular job was a director at a large zoo. I used to love zoos, until I connected mentally with a large silverback. A zoo is an animal prison.
Whaaaat? Marlon Perkins, too?? Boy, that really shatters my illusion of an idyllic childhood.
BTW, the dolphin which played Flipper was female.
But bring a retired butcher, and current omnivore, I can't wave that flag without a flood of hypocrisy drowning me.
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@gambrel saidDoes a zoologist “have” to work at a zoo?🤔
Perkins regular job was a director at a large zoo. I used to love zoos, until I connected mentally with a large silverback. A zoo is an animal prison.
But bring a retired butcher, and current omnivore, I can't wave that flag without a flood of hypocrisy drowning me.
@gambrel saidI am old enough to remember when you stuck with people of your own race. Never got to know about different cultures and religions. Things started changing here in the mid to late 70's I would say. Appears here we are 70 years later as you said still trying to get it right.
Agreed, up to a point. I'm not so sure all white people understand today. And looking back the civil Rights movement got a full head of steam in the 50s and 60s. It would have seemed logical to me at the time to make changes then, I mean this is 70 years later.
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@gambrel saidIf the white people back then had been faced with charges of racism based on the way all races were treated by them, instead of just racism against blacks, they would have lost their minds and we would have seen greater pushback than we're seeing even now.
Agreed, up to a point. I'm not so sure all white people understand today. And looking back the civil Rights movement got a full head of steam in the 50s and 60s. It would have seemed logical to me at the time to make changes then, I mean this is 70 years later.
@moonbus saidI totally agree on this.
My sister married an Aleut, so I have some familiarity with some of the issues involved. People do need to be sensitised to micro-aggressions which have become common-places in the vernacular. That said, I am not in favour of re-writing history. A recent re-edition of Huck Finn removed the n-word--this is literary vandalism. Twain was well aware of the insidiousness of racis ...[text shortened]... d Netflix, as a reminder to ourselves how un-enlightened we once were and how far we have yet to go.
It's easy to get all precious about it, but we cannot ignore (or whitewash) history. There are lessons there that we still need to learn. And some of us are notoriously slow learners.
@contenchess saidNope. That is your whiteness talking. You should learn to muzzle that in a multicultural setting. Just because it doesn't affect you, doesn't mean it doesn't affect anybody. You need to try a little more empathy. I know, I know, that means dropping your fear of the other first, but that alone will make you a better person.
Their wasn't anything wrong with it until white liberals decided who was offended and when and where and by who and etc and F&@$ing cetera 🙄