Current Events > Cartoon Network posts a Tik Tok that will probably end up controversial

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https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1336727212578443266

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wut

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NeonOctopus posted...

wut

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Black medieval knights sound badass

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TroutPaste posted...

Black medieval knights sound badass

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No lies detected

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Daaaaamn. Go off Queen

judging by the replies to the tweet it already is

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Great message that should be in more kid's programs.

But ew Steven Universe.

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TroutPaste posted...

Black medieval knights sound badass

I never saw that movie, but I remember it being in theaters.

NeonOctopus posted...

beat me to it :(

BignutzisBack posted...

No lies detected

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Of course people will be upset over this. A cartoon is smarter than they are.

Are they arguing that we should hyper focus on random black people? I think there is a difference between places in history where the accomplishments of black people were purposely ignored due to racism and places where black people made up like 0.00001% of the active population.

People will get upset at anything. From proper use of the word blind, to wearing a mask, to the words sorority and fraternity.

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BignutzisBack posted...

No lies detected

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This seems way too generalized.

In school I learned about how most of the cowboys were black and how Egypt/other Middle East countries are trying to erase Nubia and its history from existence. Also learned about the black Pharaohs of Nubia/Egypt.


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Hm, that's great. Maybe I should give Steven Universe a chance after all

Meh. Preachy character is preachy.

Drug_Smoker posted...

This seems way too generalized.

In school I learned about how most of the cowboys were black and how Egypt/other Middle East countries are trying to erase Nubia and its history from existence. Also learned about the black Pharaohs of Nubia/Egypt.

Good for you

Most Americans dont learn shit

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Blue_Inigo posted...

Good for you

Most Americans dont learn shit

Is it because they weren't paying attention?

How many students could actually say they read through their history textbooks?

The content is in there, you just have to read it.

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Go Pearl! 100% correct!

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Drug_Smoker posted...

Is it because they weren't paying attention?

How many students could actually say they read through their history textbooks?

The content is in there, you just have to read it.

Im guilty of that. History was by far the most boring subject for me, so I did the absolute minimum required to get by. I didnt care about on what date a war happened, who invented what, and especially not what color their skin was.

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Drug_Smoker posted...

Is it because they weren't paying attention?

How many students could actually say they read through their history textbooks?

The content is in there, you just have to read it.

As someone who did pay attention, I can tell you that I had to purposefully seek it as an elective to learn about any non white history.

Even my world history class was eurocentric

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I can't believe a children's cartoon is smarter than Gamers.

Just kidding.

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https://youtu.be/7JheC-_8I5A

Full vid

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Blue_Inigo posted...

As someone who did pay attention, I can tell you that I had to purposefully seek it as an elective to learn about any non white history.

Even my world history class was eurocentric

If your school system's history textbook only included white history (Which I find unlikely. At the very least there should be a considerable amount about Native culture.) then I would suggest contacting the author and suggesting he add more black/native history into his next re-vision.

Either that or get in contact with the history department and make the suggestion of switching to a new history textbook.

Both of those things would accomplish a lot more than a tik-tok video. Of course, most people are just happy with seeing something that confirms what they think and patting themselves on the back for knowing it is enough. But it won't actually change anything.

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CruelBuffalo posted...

https://youtu.be/7JheC-_8I5A

Full vid

Is the actual show like this? I always avoided it because of the art but I'm much less superficial about that kind of thing these days

Drug_Smoker posted...

If your school system's history textbook only included white history (Which I find unlikely. At the very least there should be a considerable amount about Native culture.) then I would suggest contacting the author and suggesting he add more black/native history into his next re-vision.

This is such a staggering misunderstanding of the complaint here that it has to be intentional.

Drug_Smoker posted...

If your school system's history textbook only included white history (Which I find unlikely. At the very least there should be a considerable amount about Native culture.) then I would suggest contacting the author and suggesting he add more black/native history into his next re-vision.

Either that or get in contact with the history department and make the suggestion of switching to a new history textbook.

Both of those things would accomplish a lot more than a tik-tok video. Of course, most people are just happy with seeing something that confirms what they think and patting themselves on the back for knowing it is enough. But it won't actually change anything.

Is this what they call virtue signalling?

You dont need to be mad about a video telling the truth

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CruelBuffalo posted...

https://youtu.be/7JheC-_8I5A

Full vid

The dislike bar on this video says it all.

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Drug_Smoker posted...

If your school system's history textbook only included white history (Which I find unlikely. At the very least there should be a considerable amount about Native culture.) then I would suggest contacting the author and suggesting he add more black/native history into his next re-vision.

Either that or get in contact with the history department and make the suggestion of switching to a new history textbook.

Why is that so unbelievable? American history textbooks are very heavily White-centric, with token mentions to the Civil Rights movement (and then, only MLK, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X).

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I know it's been said over and over now but Elvis' prominence is some pretty great evidence of black erasure in music.
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The video's not wrong by any means but holy shit is that the worst possible way to go about it.

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Socrawheeze posted...

Is the actual show like this? I always avoided it because of the art but I'm much less superficial about that kind of thing these days

This is absolutely using the show's characters as mouthpieces. The show has none of this

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Why is that so unbelievable? American history textbooks are very heavily White-centric, with token mentions to the Civil Rights movement (and then, only MLK, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X).

As someone who has read history textbooks, I have found most of the content mentioned in that video and a lot more.

Of course that is just my experience, perhaps there do exist history textbooks in use that only include white culture. If that is the case then we would be better served to get those books out of circulation than making a video about how the system is bad because it doesn't do everything for us while we do nothing.

Proclaiming "systemic racism" and doing nothing has become a problem. We are the system, if we want change we need to act to bring change. It won't just magically happen on its own.

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sauceje posted...

This is absolutely using the show's characters as mouthpieces. The show has none of this

Oh, that stinks. Would have been cool if the show was actually like this

Solar_Crimson posted...

Why is that so unbelievable? American history textbooks are very heavily White-centric, with token mentions to the Civil Rights movement (and then, only MLK, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X).

I read my history and social studies books from cover to cover for fun. This is exactly how they were. The history of white men was primary/main history, and everything that involved anyone else was in special boxes off to the side or subsections of wider chapters. If you read those books, you'd think nothing important ever happened in Africa and that China has been mostly irrelevant to world history. There was a rotating list of like 7 black people who were mentioned by name in those books and half of them are who you quoted.

The basic history education I received was garbaje.

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I have to wonder why people keep trying to divide our history. As in this is what whites accomplished or did, or this is what blacks accomplished or did?

And putting that aside even we have black history month dedicated specifically to just that. So idk what this vid is trying to accomplish. If test books dont have enough to say about (insert races here relevancy) and the history teacher is to lazy to just look it up himself and teach it then that's on him and the school.

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Prismsblade posted...

I have to wonder why people keep trying to divide our history. As in this is what whites accomplished or did, or this is what blacks accomplished or did?

bringing attention to the vast array of accomplishments made by people of color throughout history is dividing our history?

Socrawheeze posted...

Is the actual show like this? I always avoided it because of the art but I'm much less superficial about that kind of thing these days

No, this is a much more crude style than the show. I mean the delivery is a bit harsh but nothing she said was incorrect.

I don't recall history teaching us of Edison. But I'd assume Latimer isn't remarked on for improving the bulb the same way several people aren't remarked on, both for improvement contributions and in general.
Hell, who invented the refrigerator? Didn't cover that far as I know.

Didn't learn about knights much if at all, kinda focused on American history, world history was very eurocentric admittedly but also vague. A couple wars mentioned, spice trade, opium war, then off to America and World Wars far as I remember.

But shit, there was a black Samurai too!
Wonder if Japanese schools teach about Edison and cowboys and knights?
Overall the message is right/nice, it's just delivered eh. Liked the Dove commercials messages more, but these aren't terrible.

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>CN posts TikTok
>TC links Twitter

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

>CN posts TikTok
>TC links Twitter

why would i ever link to a tiktok

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Nice.

And of course the usual suspects are buttflustered

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Most people ITT were taught that Columbus was a savior of savages so it's weird to think that history books haven't been completely white washed. Mfs still say shit like "MLK protested the right way" and dont realize that 1. There were many other black civil rights leaders that paved the way through both non-violent and violent protesting. 2. People viewed MLK as a violent threat and a menace at the time. 3. THEY FUCKING KILLED HIM lmao
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Smashingpmkns posted...

Most people ITT were taught that Columbus was a savior of savages so it's weird to think that history books haven't been completely white washed. Mfs still say shit like "MLK protested the right way" and dont realize that 1. There were many other black civil rights leaders that paved the way through both non-violent and violent protesting. 2. People viewed MLK as a violent threat and a menace at the time. 3. THEY FUCKING KILLED HIM lmao

That Drug guy? He's just being disingenuous as hell

I'll explain why generalized videos like this on social media are potentially damaging.

The positive response:
Someone sees it on social media and says, "I agree" then gives it a thumbs up or like or whatever. And then does absolutley nothing to fix the situation, but still gets the reward of feeling better about themselves. They can now view themselves as good vs the evil of the world without actually do anything.

The negative response:
Someone sees the video and dislikes it for whatever reason (yes, there are more than one reason someone could dislike the video). They give it a thumbs down.

The positive response person sees this and thinks "Wow there is so much evil in the world. Don't worry though I will undo all that evil by agreeing with this video and giving it a thumbs up."

Now those people are natural enemies and still nothing gets accomplished.


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Is this satire?

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