History Quotes / ValuesDissonance

-->--''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust''

-->--'''Mabel''', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''

-->--ContentWarning presented by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg on ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Spotlight Collection'' and ''Vol. 1'' digital release

-->--Content warning shown before basically every Creator/{{Disney}} owned piece of media made before the 21st century on Creator/DisneyPlus

-->--'''WesternAnimation/YogiBear''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}''

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee''

-->--'''Bandit Heeler''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'', "[[Recap/BlueyPassTheParcel Pass The Parcel]]"

-->--'''Lapis Lazuli''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E8WhySoBlue Why So Blue?]]"

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-->--WesternAnimation/YogiBear, ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}''

->''"Old School [[VideoGame/RuneScape RuneScape]] really is OLD School [=RuneScape=], and we recognise that certain elements of the game are far less acceptable than they were 20 years ago. Moving forward, we’ll address a number of issues to make Gielinor a more inclusive and welcoming place to be."'' [[note]]See [[https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Update:Gielinor_Gazette_-_June_2022#Diversity_and_Inclusion here]] for the list of actual changes they made to the game, which include: removing a NoManOfWomanBorn requirement from a quest that requires you to play as a female character, removing "Gypsy" from a character's name (likely a reference to [[UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers Irish Travellers]], removed a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech Rivers of Blood speech]], and applying the player-sexual style of EveryoneIsBi to many occasions.[[/note]]

-->--'''Lapis Lazuli''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E8WhySoBlue Why so Blue?]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
->''"Every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country."''
-->-- '''Michel de Montaigne''', ''[[http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/montaigne-essays--2.html Of Cannibals]]''

->''"Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth. Fundamental laws change after a few years of possession; right has its epochs; the entry of Saturn into the Lion marks to us the origin of such and such a crime. A strange justice that is bounded by a river! Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other side."''
-->-- '''Blaise Pascal''', ''Pensées''

->''"When creating their stories, authors, filmmakers and cartoonists producing the early texts we now label as science fiction drew heavily from such closely related colonial genres as the scientific race treatise, the travelogue, and the “lost race” story... Darwin’s evolutionary narrative became encoded into the very structure of science fiction in a way that still lingers, often contradicting the explicit aims and goals of the SF texts that contain them."''
-->-- '''Patrick B. Sharp''', introduction to ''Darwinism'' (''The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction'')

->''"This is why so little of what moves us during wartime has any currency once it is over. The songs, books, poems, and films that arouse us in war are [[WartimeCartoon awkward and embarrassing]] when the conflict ends."''
-->-- '''Chris Hedges''', ''War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning''

->''"Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth."''
-->-- Mary Schmich, [[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column-column.html "Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young",]] Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997

->''"Blackhawk, Apache, and Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice."''
-->-- '''Noam Chomsky''', ''Propaganda and the Public Mind''

->''"I hope that, like Creator/MarkTwain, people one day look back at my work and say, 'Wow, that is actually pretty racist.'"''
-->-- '''Creator/TinaFey''', in her acceptance speech for the Mark Twain award

->''It is a little unfair, I think, to criticize a person for not sharing the enlightenment of a later epoch, but it is also profoundly saddening that such prejudices were so extremely pervasive.''
-->--'''Creator/CarlSagan''', '''''Broca's Brain'''''

->''"One of the inevitabilities of living in a culture that’s actively working to both acknowledge and dismantle the systemic behaviors that have long served to disenfranchise women and minorities is that it’s become really, really easy to point out the ways in which the pop culture of yore is, well, not good. Such critiques are rarely indicative of the quality of the storytelling, but rather the pricklier qualities of the lessons imparted therein and the question of just what the children of today are culling from them. Just as public perceptions of D. W. Griffith’s ''[[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 Birth Of A Nation]]'' changed with the rise of public discourse around race, so too shall the sacred cows of yesteryear be reassessed as we deepen and refine our discussions around identity and sexuality."''
-->--'''Website/AVClub''', ''[[https://www.avclub.com/we-regret-to-inform-you-that-rudolph-the-red-nosed-rein-1821393418 We regret to inform you that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is now political]]''

->''An "animated cocktail napkin" about killing the wife, the sort of thing "they won't make today". Keep in mind that Americans were then jaded to the idea by shows like ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents''.''
-->--'''Milton Knight''' talks about ''The Plot Sickens'' (1961)

->''[...] In democratic UsefulNotes/{{Athens}} of the fifth century BC, an individual possessing a womb had no independent legal status and was forbidden to participate in popular assemblies or to be a judge. With few exceptions, such an individual could not benefit from a good education, nor engage in business or in philosophical discourse. None of UsefulNotes/{{Athens}}’ political leaders, none of its great philosophers, orators, artists or merchants had a womb. Does having a womb make a person unfit, biologically, for these professions? The ancient Athenians thought so. Modern Athenians disagree. In present-day UsefulNotes/{{Athens}}, women vote, are elected to public office, make speeches, design everything from jewellery to buildings to software, and go to university.''
-->--'''Yuval Noah Harari''', '''''Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'''''

->''"With those who follow a different Way it is useless to take counsel."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Confucius}}'''

->''"Western Civ[ilization]’s most infamous encounter with pandemic disease, so far, was the big first wave of the Black Death that had a marathon run from 1346 to 1353. That bug was the real deal. It killed folks left and right, every age group, every social station, and it killed them ugly. Few who caught it survived. Up to half the population of Europe perished, along with a lot of their social and economic ways. The cause of the Black Death was subject to every [...] explanation except the actual one, ''Yersina pestis'', a bacterium associated with rats and their insect parasites, fleas and lice, who also enjoyed an association with humans living in the [...] squalid conditions of the day ­— the ancient Roman habit of bathing long forgotten. At the top of their list of causes was an angry God, and his wicked erstwhile subordinate, Satan. The “experts” of that time tended to cluster in the church hierarchy, with its drear obsessions and compulsions. The squishy boundary between the supernatural and reality loosed all manner of derangement. The Jews came in for much vilification, leading to massacres in Strasbourg, Mainz, and Cologne. On the whole, the episode represented a terrific humbling of humanity. The allegory of the Dance Macabre summed it up in mankind’s universal antic journey to [...] death. As modern interpolators might say, the bubonic plague winnowed down UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}’s population to a scale more congenial with its resource base. After that big first wave of the disease, [the] land was cheaper and human labor better rewarded. Eventually, more food got around. Incidentally, the plague provoked nostalgia for the classical antiquity of UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} and UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, especially among the scholars of UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, launching the extravaganzas of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment, and eventually our own pageant of techno-supremacist Modernity."''
-->-- '''Creator/JamesHowardKunstler'''
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-> ''If you misunderstood [[VideoGame/Persona4 Yukiko]] as a [[ExtremeDoormat spineless, indecisive girl]] who threw away her future, then I don't completely blame you. Franchise/{{Persona}} games are special because we view them through our own cultural lens and life experiences. But the problem of having this cultural lens means we start framing the story and characters with our own expectations, and find ourselves trying to outsmart the story because it doesn't fit into a mold we forced onto it.''
-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBSSYfIvyg A.B.I.torial: Misunderstanding Yukiko]]

->''In context, the motive and many of the aspects of the case make a lot more sense, stage names are passed down over generations (literally dating back to the 17th century), this would be like if Prince Charles was somehow kicked out of the line of succession. Simon Blackquill is a character who does not fit this case as it was translated, but who works very well in the original; Uendo is a humongous shoutout to Rakugo. As a filler case in the original release, it actually worked very well as [[BreatherEpisode a buffer between the extremely dark 3rd and 5th cases]].\\
Turnabout Storyteller is not a great case at all in the western version, but that's because it simply never stood a chance of surviving adaptation.''
-->-- Comment on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOYXcKtfJA this video]] about "[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Turnabout Storyteller]]" being the worst case in ''Franchise/AceAttorney''

->'''Ivan Dobsky:''' Ohhhh Mr Drummond! Help! It's that [[Creator/NeslonMandela Nelson Bonjela]], [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the most feared terrorist]] in all of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica!\\

->'''Ivan Dobsky:''' Ohhhh Mr Drummond! Help! It's that [[UsefulNotes/NeslonMandela Nelson Bonjela]], [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the most feared terrorist]] in all of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica!\\

->'''Ivan Dobsky:''' Look out, Mr. Drummond! It's Nelson Bonjela, [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters the most feared terrorist]] in all of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica!\\
'''Mr. Drummond:''' It would be best if you just reversed ''all'' your [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra 1970's preconceptions]], Ivan.

->'''The Big Cheese of the Publishing Biz:''' The depiction of minors consuming alcohol or anything with similar effects as good, funny, or otherwise desirable in any way, shape or form is a great big no-can-do.
->'''Rentarou:''' Huh...? But what about... the Drunken Lid in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''...?
->'''The Big Cheese:''' That was a different time.[[labelnote:context]]From 1983.[[/labelnote]] No can do.

-->--'''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Kazooie]]''', ''[[Creator/ManOnTheInternet Gruntilda Battle with Lyrics]]''

->'''Libby Stein-Torres:''' Many, many years ago, there was a bloodthirsty criminal named Harriet.\\

'''Libby Stein-Torres:''' She sold uncured salami on Wednesday.\\
'''Molly [=McGee=]:''' [[FlatWhat Uh... What?]]\\
'''Libby Stein-Torres:''' Laws were different back then.

->'''The Big Cheese:''' That was a different time.[[labelnote:context]]From 1979.[[/labelnote]] No can do.

->'''Rentarou:''' Huh...? But what about... the drunken lid in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''...?

->''"Western Civ’s most infamous encounter with pandemic disease, so far, was the big first wave of the Black Death that had a marathon run from 1346 to 1353. That bug was the real deal. It killed folks left and right, every age group, every social station, and it killed them ugly. Few who caught it survived. Up to half the population of Europe perished, along with a lot of their social and economic ways. The cause of the Black Death was subject to every possible explanation except the actual one, ''Yersina pestis'', a bacterium associated with rats and their insect parasites, fleas and lice, who also enjoyed an association with humans living in the generally squalid conditions of the day ­— the ancient Roman habit of bathing long forgotten. At the top of their list of causes was an angry God, and his wicked erstwhile subordinate, Satan. The “experts” of that time tended to cluster in the church hierarchy, with its drear obsessions and compulsions. The squishy boundary between the supernatural and reality loosed all manner of derangement. The Jews came in for much vilification, leading to massacres in Strasbourg, Mainz, and Cologne. On the whole, the episode represented a terrific humbling of humanity. The allegory of the Dance Macabre summed it up in mankind’s universal antic journey to the Palookaville of death. As modern interpolators might say, the bubonic plague winnowed down UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}’s population to a scale more congenial with its resource base. After that big first wave of the disease, [the] land was cheaper and human labor better rewarded. Eventually, more food got around. Incidentally, the plague provoked nostalgia for the classical antiquity of UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} and UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, especially among the scholars of UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, launching the extravaganzas of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment, and eventually our own pageant of techno-supremacist Modernity."''