Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
With Friends Like These…
A TV network recently aired a rerun of Enemies, a popular television series from twenty-five years ago. However, the humor has dated badly, and many of the jokes are now being seen as transphobic, homophobic, bigoted, and racist.
I’ve encountered with 4 choice
1. “My eyes!” screeches your niece, obviously distressed and trembling with shock. “How did anyone ever find this funny? It’s just sick, absolutely sick. Like that one episode when they pejoratively used the appellation ‘gay’ to describe someone who was being emotionally vulnerable? Disgusting! You’ve got to ban re-runs of bigoted shows like this once and for all, so no one else will have to endure these offensive horrors!”
2. “Hey, what’s the dealo?” questions Ross Oliver, one of the stars of the show in question. “This is classic comedy, man. I mean, you couldn’t get away with saying half the stuff that we did, but you’d be destroying a national masterpiece. We need to keep this to teach people what NATIONSNAME used to be like. Keep the history, man, don’t ever be censoring entertainment!”
3. “Heh, have I got a solution for you,” mutters your bored-looking Minister of Propaganda, twiddling his thumbs absent-mindedly. “My ministry will take control of producing content that will both be inoffensive and pro-government. While we’re at it, give us control of news media too. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical.”
4. “For Violet’s sake, the average CITIZEN has gotten far too soft,” comments one of your brothers, looking at your niece with disgust. “We need to educate them to have thicker skin and take a joke or two, no matter how crude. How about we add a class or two in our education system that’ll teach ‘em how to handle some humor?”
5. Dismiss the issue
Option 2. sounds nice so I choose it.
The result saids ‘Primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Wealth Gaps
Rich To Poor Income Ratio 1.2%
Culture
Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale 0.91%
Economic Freedom
Rand Index 0.84%
Social Conservatism
Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index 0.68%
Political Freedom
Diebold Election Inking Scale 0.54%
Obesity
Obesity Rate 0.21%
Employment
Workforce Participation Rate 0.09%
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 0.06%
And decline in this qualities
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr. Units 0.19%
Ideological Radicality
Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index 0.36%
Inclusiveness
Mandela-Wollstonecraft Non-Discrimination Index 0.47%
Weather
Meters Of Sunlight 0.59%
Income Equality
Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale 0.97%
Authoritarianism
milliStalins 1.4%
This choice is nice.
