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In reply to the discussion: When Your Favorite Childhood Films Are a Little More Homophobic Than You Remembered [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)50. I think that joke is probably about Mexican 'border' v. boarder, not about mexicans not paying rent.
and i bet mexican was picked v. canada because it was closer to hollywood.
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obamanut2012
Dec 2012
OP
+1. True. Kinnison probably wouldn't last today.... or even break through. n/t
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#5
It's hard to gauge just how drastically things have changed over the last couple of decades.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#36
I don't dispute that his stuff was often disgusting, even at that time it made most
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#60
Right, if any of the "boys" had a girlfriend, she wouldn't last more than an episode
Lydia Leftcoast
Dec 2012
#30
The orginal Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books from the 20s were shockingly racist
TheMightyFavog
Dec 2012
#43
Uncanny. I don't remember it. ( That says something right there, I guess.)
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#88
Anti-homosexual propaganda films were still being shown when I was in school
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#12
"lots of young people hitchhike, it seems like a good way to get from one place to another..."
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#49
On the bright side, doesn't this mean we have evolved and are making progress as a culture?
Squinch
Dec 2012
#15
I think that joke is probably about Mexican 'border' v. boarder, not about mexicans not paying rent.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#50
Though what you say here is true ( racist caricatures) , you have to grant that....
Smarmie Doofus
Dec 2012
#79
i actually find looney tunes kind of subversive. of all the old cartoons, they're my favorite.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#86
The Maltese Falcon, otherwise a fabulous film, is pretty raw toward its one gay character.
dimbear
Dec 2012
#52
It is utterly ridiculous to pick up a film made half a century or more ago and
Skidmore
Dec 2012
#53
Hey guys: People will watch movies made TODAY in 20 years and say the same thing!
Romulox
Dec 2012
#71