Racial Coding in The Muppets

[We Got Us]

I have to disagree on one thing... this ISN"T an interesting article.. it's poop short and simple.

It's Reno. Reno is the ugly fat depressing sister of Vegas. The film wasn't making a statement about safe clean imaginary 1950's towns are good and urban settings are evil... just Reno is a depressing place where once famous celebrities end up if their careers tank. Crime? in a city full of gambling? Never heard such a thing.

The fart of an opinion starts to go onto whining about Tex's Gangsta parody rap, suggesting only black people can use this style of music. I'm convinced this was written by an overly sensitive white boy who's trying hard to not come off as a racist himself (I KNOW those kinds of people).

Yeah, Foozie's a parody of a Gangsta. Dude... you know how many cultureless suburban white boys I knew in High School dress up rap style and act rap style when they come from pretty well to do families?

I hate these grasps at straws pushing pointless and idiotic agendas they enforce. I don't know what's full of more hot air... this or the claims by Faux news that a bad guy in a movie that's rich automatically means the movie promotes Communism.

Couldn't. Agree. More.

 

[Drtooth]

Racism's an easy thing to claim. Some easily offended doofus thinks they see something and shrieks and squeals until they get heard. Being heard equates them with being right. And if they're loud enough and someone actually does something about it, then they complain that it makes them all the more right.

Yet, why is it then we still have the Tech and Talk guys advertising mobile phones?

For true racial silliness, read this crap about someone hearing a slur in Fraggle Rock

 

[We Got Us]

Racism's an easy thing to claim. Some easily offended doofus thinks they see something and shrieks and squeals until they get heard. Being heard equates them with being right. And if they're loud enough and someone actually does something about it, then they complain that it makes them all the more right.

Yet, why is it then we still have the Tech and Talk guys advertising mobile phones?

For true racial silliness, read this crap about someone hearing a slur in Fraggle Rock

Wow. I'm trying to laugh while signing up for anger management classes. Seriously? You could hear entirely what he was saying, and even sounds like they tried garbling the audio to make it worse. Really? Their Fraggles! And a Rasta hat? Come on people!!

 

[Drtooth]

Let's look at the Moopets, shall we?

I'll give them Foozie being a Gangsta stereotype... but come on. Kermoot is CLEARLY a white emo kid, Roowlf's just a punk (or maybe from the Star Trek Mirror dimension... he DOES have a goatee... that's quite obviously the reference)... Poogy's a drag queen clearly... Joonice has a weird accent that I couldn't make out at the end of the movie. It was either a very effeminate Hispanic accent or an extremely effeminate German accent.

And Animool is racist to humans.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

You know, seriously folks, "Racial Coding?" In something the Muppets has done? AND You're supposed to be "fans?"

This is ridiculous. I'm coding this thread as ridiculous. I suppose the same folks finding something racist in The Muppets also agree with FOX NEWS' impression that they are corporation bashing against big oil companies? Gimme a break.

We wait (how long?) for a movie and folks post this junk?

Closing the thread if I can figure it out.

 

[We Got Us]

You know, seriously folks, "Racial Coding?" In something the Muppets has done? AND You're supposed to be "fans?"

This is ridiculous. I'm coding this thread as ridiculous. I suppose the same folks finding something racist in The Muppets also agree with FOX NEWS' impression that they are corporation bashing against big oil companies? Gimme a break.

We wait (how long?) for a movie and folks post this junk?

Closing the thread if I can figure it out.

T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U.!!!

 

[Drtooth]

This is ridiculous. I'm coding this thread as ridiculous. I suppose the same folks finding something racist in The Muppets also agree with FOX NEWS' impression that they are corporation bashing against big oil companies? Gimme a break.

Actually, it seems like two political opposites... but I don't take crap off the Muppets from the far left OR the far right. I was just as annoyed by Fox bashing Sesame Street's Hope against Hunger as I was for some far left loser bashing the Cookie Hood episode for promoting commercialism and consumerism. People always want to see something sinister in something kid friendly and turn it into one of their own soap boxes.

The Muppets are supposed to appeal to everyone from any background. I'd rather hear "I used to love them... Then I COULD WALK!" than some lame political rant about how they're swaying kids one way or another... at least those people are devoid of magic and don't need to rationalize it.

 

[RedPiggy]

I find it racist when a light brown bear in a rapper outfit is automatically supposed to be black. Why? Isn't it racist to assume it's a thing about black people? I'm not that much into the whole music scene, but I remember seeing a white guy rapping here and there over the years. If we're going to argue it's racist, wouldn't it have made more sense to have Roolf, who is darker brown, wear that outfit?

 

[Drtooth]

I find it racist when a light brown bear in a rapper outfit is automatically supposed to be black. Why? Isn't it racist to assume it's a thing about black people? I'm not that much into the whole music scene, but I remember seeing a white guy rapping here and there over the years. If we're going to argue it's racist, wouldn't it have made more sense to have Roolf, who is darker brown, wear that outfit?

People who claim not to be racists usually are... but they feel really guilty about it. Cartoon characters (in this case puppets) that are anthropomorphic usually are raceless. Foozie doesn't look like a black stereotype to me, just the opposite... he looks like the stereotype of a fake white rap gangsta. Plus, let's not forget the subtle, subliminal criticism of kid's movies the Moopets brought. They have to "hip" up characters, give them a 'tude, and turn them into something they're not. If that isn't the point, at least that's what I got out of it.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I'm not that much into the whole music scene, but I remember seeing a white guy rapping here and there over the years.

Well yeah but they're often seen as jokes. Not saying I agree, but just pointing that out.