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The Simpsons, like Family Guy, might have offered some protests against wokeness, but ultimately was forced to bend the knee. And one of the tokens of submission was making sure the cartoon’s voice actors matched the race of their characters. At least when they were any color other than yellow.
Harry Shearer voices many characters on The Simpsons and was recently replaced as the voice of Dr. Hibbert.
“Folk say the show has become woke in recent years and one of my characters has been affected,” Shearer said on The Times of London. “I voiced the black physician, Dr. Hibbert, who I based on Bill Cosby. Back then he was known as the ‘whitest black man on television.’ Then, a couple of years ago, I received an email saying they’d employed a black actor, who then copied my voice. The result is a black man imitating a white man imitating the whitest black man on TV.”
What did having a black man imitating a white man imitating a black man achieve? Nothing useful except virtue signaling. And of course policing and abiding by whatever rules the Left sets at any given time.
The original rule which started out as a stand against blackface then decided that any portrayal of a minority by a white person in any context was wrong (but not the reverse obviously.)
The rules may be random and senseless, but the more irrational a rule, the more power is gained from enforcing it.
Let’s play celebrity Jeopardy. From the category “Famous Race Hustlers:” A black man imitating a white man imitating the whitest black man on TV. (hum the Jeopardy theme music)… The correct answer in the form of a question is: Who is Barack Hussein Obama?
That’s a point. The point of rules is often to give power to the rulers, rather than to benefit the public.
The Simpson’s loss. I used to be a big fan but, except for reruns of early episodes I can’t even watch it anymore.
it doesn’t help that it’s going on 500 seasons and that everything was played out in a previous generation.
And that it can’t afford to make fun of that which shall not be mocked… at least not too often.
Interesting how men in “woman-face” are not just tolerated, but supposedly celebrated–even when they cause a “disparate impact” for women, as in sports.
This is SURREAL. My head is swimming. June Foray did the voice of Rocky, and she was not a FLYING SQUIRREL.
and most young boys, including on the Simpsons, were voiced by adult women
The character of Peter Pan, on stage, was almost always played by an actress: Mary Martin, Maude Adams
The funniest thing of all about “The Simpsons” is pretending a black guy could be a doctor. Next we’ll see a black Airline pilot.
Oh, wait. Denzel Washington was a great pilot in that movie “Flight.”
I’ll still take my Vietnamese doctors to Affirmative Action ones, though. At least I know they earned their medical degrees.
The Simpsons lost their mojo years ago. Don’t remember the last time I watched it, much less the episode. They used to be memorable back in the day when TV was occasionally somewhat sane.
“The rules may be random and senseless, but the more irrational a rule, the more power is gained from enforcing it..”
If Saul Alinsky wrote a rules for socialists in power, this would be a must rule at the top of the list in importance. A valuable instruction for those belonging to the nazi-fascist, socialist, communist singularity that reside under feudalism as a sub-group of feudalism..
I Spy, Star Trek and Land of the Giants were Some of the first TV series to feature a Black in the Main Role