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<\/a><\/p>\nModern day viewers of a classic cartoon were triggered by the recent airing of a Charlie Brown Thansgiving.\u00a0 Originally aired in 1973, I\u2019m sure creator Charles M. Schultz didn\u2019t even consider the optics of the backyard scene.<\/p>\n
The Peanuts gang is on one side of the table, seated in regular chairs.\u00a0 Franklin, the token negro I suppose, is seated alone on the other side.\u00a0 The gang sit in regular chairs while Franklin is relegated to sitting in a lawn chair.\u00a0 This is CLEARLY racism<\/em>, no matter how subtle.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter that back then table furnishings didn\u2019t HAVE six chairs, only four.\u00a0 A closer look shows that the chair Linus sits in is a different color than those of the gang.\u00a0 And the chair that Marcie sits in has a solid back as opposed to the spindle back chairs of the gang.\u00a0 Is Marcie being snubbed for her nerdiness?<\/p>\n Comments tagged to the article ranged from sarcasm about the quantity of sugar-laced treats in front of Franklin being a sort of reparations to snowflakes affirming that their \u201cwokeness\u201d will keep them from watching the cartoon, yes CARTOON, ever again.<\/p>\n Triggered by a cartoon that is 45 years old.\u00a0 Likely older than their own parents in many cases.\u00a0 I can think of another group that are easily triggered by cartoons.\u00a0 ISIS.\u00a0 Just publish a Mohammed cartoon and watch the buildings burn.\u00a0 But then, the triggered that go violent (Antifa) are a lot like ISIS.<\/p>\n While we\u2019re at it, why don\u2019t we ban reruns of I Dream of Jeanie?\u00a0 After all, she is kept captive in a small vessel and forced to wear flimsy, revealing clothing to please a military man.<\/p>\n Beverly Hillbillies is all about shaming a family for their awkward \u201csouthern\u201d awkwardness.\u00a0 And making Ellie Mae wear those short shorts and depicting her as so na\u00efve is clearly sexist.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t remember seeing any black people in the Dennis the Menace show.\u00a0 I guess they were all kept working in the cotton fields.<\/p>\n Hawkeye from M*A*S*H is a total womanizer.\u00a0 Foisting himself on all those nurses\u2014after getting them drunk on hooch in his hooch.\u00a0 Why, he\u2019s the original Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n See how slippery this slope is?\u00a0 It\u2019s a damn cartoon with an embedded wholesome message, if you stow your hyper-sensitive social justice warrior righteousness for a minute.\u00a0 Get over yourselves and put away your hashtags.\u00a0 Snowflakes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n