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Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« on: January 30, 2012, 07:50:23 AM »
I always hated the show because it was formulaic to the point of qualifying as a substitute for the Chinese water torture and I'm no friend of the CSA from the American Civil War but the mania of these "people" is reaching absurd levels:

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Does the show Dukes of Hazzard encourage racism?

 (Please note I am sorry if this question is in the wrong forum. I just wasn't sure if I should put it here on in the lounge?)
 

When I was younger I did watch Dukes. I know that it was geared towards kids during the middle of the 1st season.
 
Now that I'm older and more politically aware am I being bias against the show?

My husband started to collect the show on DVD. his little cousin when they come over our interested in watching the show. I am concerned only because their parents are well Fundie/conservative/well racist people at times. I think they only tolerate me being around their kids because I am a great last minute babysitter and the girls do enjoy being around me.
 
So am I being rude here and judging a show from 30 years ago on today's standards? Or should I just relax and let the kids enjoy a show that is probably less violent than most of the cartoons shown today?

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1. They have the racist, 'slave owners' flag on their car

and named it the General Lee...what do you think?

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2. Do you mean because of the rebel flag on the "general lee"? Or are there other aspects you question?

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6. all of it.

Yeah!

Daisy Duke was an effort to seduce black men into desiring white women so as to dilute their blood lines and inflame white male hatred.

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28. I don't think it encourages racism so much as promotes a myth of a racism free confederate heritage







(note I said confederate heritage, not southern heritage--this isn't intended as a south bashing post.)
 
I haven't seen the show in years, and by and large I don't remember there being a lot of minority characters in the show. However, I do have a (vague, but I think genuine--as I've said, it's been a while since I've seen it) memory of the Duke family being critical of racist attitudes in an episode. I don't recall the Dukes themselves engaging in racist behaviors or language, though it's possible that they did.
 
But the use of confederate symbols such as that racist flag does seem to advance of a myth of a confederate heritage that is independent of that racial baggage, which is itself inaccurate and unfortunate.

I always thought is was because the Confederate flag was a cool looking design on a show about vapid sensationalism.

Shows how much I know.

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5. It made being a redneck acceptable

Just about the time Reagan needed the racist redneck vote, 'Dukes of Hazzard' made stupid and backwards acceptable. You do know that Jimmy Carter was slowly bringing the South into the 20th century, until Reagan's pandering to the racists gave them another way out. Here we are 32 years later, and almost every problem in the country can be laid at the feet of pandering to the stupid and backwards.

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20. It did make rednecks seem cool.

I'm not so sure they were stupid, they just didn't have much 'book lernin'. You're right it the show is kind of symbolic of the beginning of the era of anti-intellectualism.

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47. Is it 'not acceptable' to be rural, backwards, and/or less intelligent than the mean?

Because that describes a whole lot of people. Would you say that to people in rural Appalachia who vote Dem? How about rural blacks in the South?
 
And there are a lot of problems that have nothing to do with pandering to the 'stupid and backwards.' Such, oh I don't know, the lack of regulation and enforcement on Wall St. That's about as far from 'stupid and backwards' as you can get.
 
For the record, I remember almost nothing about the show itself. But I do remember loving the car as a young child and having the toy.



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8. How could it? There weren't any black people on it!

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11. Sure there was! Don't you remember ___________

he was a main character for 4 seasons!


Also racist: The Iliad, The Odyessy, Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, all Shakespeare except Othello...

And on it goes...

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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 09:04:42 AM »
you do not know how excited i am to see the dukes being compared to homer's classics.

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just made my day!
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 09:31:17 AM »
Quote from: Rugnuts on January 30, 2012, 09:04:42 AM
you do not know how excited i am to see the dukes being compared to homer's classics.

 :yahoo:

just made my day!
Yeah, the Mr. Plow episode was great!!!


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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 09:31:46 AM »
What do DUmmies have against Sherriff Little of Chickashaw County?
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 09:36:14 AM »
I liked the DoH while growing up for 3 reasons.
1. Car chases.
2. Dynamite on arrows.
3. Daisy.

I would bet that at least 2 of those are on most people's top 3 reasons they watched as well.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2012, 09:49:33 AM »
I watched. I was a kid. Stuff blew up. Cars jumped all kinds of stuff. Daisy helped make my voice change.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the Dukes of Hazzard were popular during the CARTER era, not Reagan. I remember one episode specifically where President Carter calls Uncle Jesse because of his moonshine-to-gasoline ideas.

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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2012, 10:11:02 AM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on January 30, 2012, 07:50:23 AM
I always hated the show because it was formulaic to the point of qualifying as a substitute for the Chinese water torture
It was either that or "Scarecrow and Mrs. King".

Not much on TV on Tuesday night.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2012, 10:14:23 AM »
Irony Alert! A bunch of elitists discussing racial bias while demonstrating extreme class bias.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2012, 10:23:08 AM »
It was a friggen cit-com. Geez
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2012, 10:40:23 AM »
Quote from: Splashdown on January 30, 2012, 09:49:33 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the Dukes of Hazzard were popular during the CARTER era, not Reagan. I remember one episode specifically where President Carter calls Uncle Jesse because of his moonshine-to-gasoline ideas.
Close enough.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2012, 10:40:50 AM »
as much as the duke boys dis-obeyed the law's orders, you'd think the DUmmys would empathize instead of ostracize.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2012, 12:45:13 PM »
The sky is blue today. 

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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2012, 12:59:32 PM »
I'll take them seriously when they want to talk about all the afrocentric shows of the late 80's and 90's that had very few white characters and when they did they were mostly portrayed as morons. The Dukes of Hazzard of all things. In my recollect, you think they'd like how those boys ran circles around that 1%er Boss Hog and his 'army' of cops under 'Cooter'. You think DUmmies would like the theme of regularly pulling one over on the cops and the rich man, but shrug.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2012, 01:00:30 PM »
Quote from: Splashdown on January 30, 2012, 09:49:33 AM
I watched. I was a kid. Stuff blew up. Cars jumped all kinds of stuff. Daisy helped make my voice change.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the Dukes of Hazzard were popular during the CARTER era, not Reagan. I remember one episode specifically where President Carter calls Uncle Jesse because of his moonshine-to-gasoline ideas.



Barely...it debuted in Jan of 1979
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2012, 01:01:55 PM »
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I'll take them seriously when they want to talk about all the afrocentric shows of the late 80's and 90's that had very few white characters and when they did they were mostly portrayed as morons. The Dukes of Hazzard of all things. In my recollect, you think they'd like how those boys ran circles around that 1%er Boss Hog and his 'army' of cops under 'Cooter'. You think DUmmies would like the theme of regularly pulling one over on the cops and the rich man, but shrug.

I think Cooter was the mechanic. Roscoe P. Coltrain was his deputy.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2012, 01:29:35 PM »
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I think Cooter was the mechanic. Roscoe P. Coltrain was his deputy.
Roscoe was the Sheriff.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2012, 01:36:06 PM »
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Roscoe was the Sheriff.

That's right. Hogg was mayor or something.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2012, 01:41:30 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on January 30, 2012, 01:01:55 PM
I think Cooter was the mechanic. Roscoe P. Coltrain was his deputy.

Crap...you are right :thatsright: I shall sulk off in embarrassment now. I used to watch that show too.  :-)
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2012, 01:43:00 PM »
BTW, I didn't mean "his deputy" as in Cooter's deputy. Cooter, IIRC, was always working with the Duke boys.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2012, 01:46:00 PM »
J.D. Hogg, MFers!
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2012, 01:51:40 PM »
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5. It made being a redneck acceptable

Just about the time Reagan needed the racist redneck vote, 'Dukes of Hazzard' made stupid and backwards acceptable. You do know that Jimmy Carter was slowly bringing the South into the 20th century, until Reagan's pandering to the racists gave them another way out. Here we are 32 years later, and almost every problem in the country can be laid at the feet of pandering to the stupid and backwards.


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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #21 on: January 30, 2012, 02:00:36 PM »
Wonder if they realize how often they talk about race. They're focused on it "like a laser". Only racists see everything in terms of black and white. And these people look for reasons to voice their sympathy...of course those who protest the loudest and all that.

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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2012, 02:04:05 PM »
Lukas K. Duke - Luke
Beauregard Duke - Bo
together they drove the General Lee Dodge challenger, Handle: Lost Sheep
Uncle Jesse - Drove a white 1973 F-100, Handle: Shepard
Daisy Duke - bo/luke's cousin - Handle: Bo Peep- drove a 1980 cj7 named Dixie, with a eagle on the hood. Her shorts became fashion icons
Cooter Davenport - Handle: Crazy Cooter - Mechanic
Jefferson Davis "JD" Hogg - Boss Hogg - Corrupt County Commisionor, owned almost everything in hazzard cty. Drove a white '70 cadillac coupe de ville the "grey ghost"
Roscoe P. Coltraine - sheriff (with his bassett hound Flash) - married to Hogg's sister Lulu
Enos and Cletus were the bumbling idiot deputys

Later on Coy and Vance replaced bo and luke as the dynamic duo. why i have no idea!
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2012, 02:34:05 PM »
Quote from: Rugnuts on January 30, 2012, 02:04:05 PM
Later on Coy and Vance replaced bo and luke as the dynamic duo. why i have no idea!
Contract dispute.

Wopat and Schneider wanted to work on their "singing" careers.  Wopat got married... nobody's heard from him since.
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Re: Dukes of Hazard is racist or something
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2012, 02:40:02 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on January 30, 2012, 02:00:36 PM
Wonder if they realize how often they talk about race. They're focused on it "like a laser". Only racists see everything in terms of black and white. And these people look for reasons to voice their sympathy...of course those who protest the loudest and all that.

Cindie

Ye'old stars and bars never bothered me, that is their heritage for the love of heavens.  When will the liberal North head south to desecrate the cemetery's with the CSA symbol on the graves of those that died in the war???

Next we know the Saint Patricks Day Parade will be picketed by the Orange Irishmen descendants.   I will pay good money to watch that rumble.  

  What's a the matter with you people that want us to forget history or deny anyone their right to be proud of their ancestors from 150 years ago ???  

Stand back and watch what happens if we tell the Italians they cannot place the flag of Italy on their cars because the Italians tried to beat us all up in WW2.  

I have allot of French in me and Brit, some sniveling Liberal tell me they are offended by the Flags as a bumper sticker as we fought the French Indian wars or the Revolution,  I just may have to learn real fast how to pee standing up and wet down their shoes.    Clean up on Isle 4 .

I must admit I did buy a tee shirt with Shermans Whore on it while in Georgia but never wore it, not that I was afraid to but with public education as it is, few kids or adults have any idea who the General was.

Comes down to heritage, we need to respect others and if others are offended, that is their problem.  BTW, the OWS thinks nothing of burning Old Glory, the very symbol of their, in their time freedom.  These Liberals are NUTS.





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