History Quotes / ValuesDissonance

'''Principal''': [[LampshadeHanging We do not deal with such things the same way as you do back in America. In Japan, children are expected to deal with such things on their own]]. [[MiseryBuildsCharacter It toughens them up]].\\
'''Mrs. Coyote''': [[DrivenToSuicide Until they fling themselves off top of one of your school buildings]].

->''The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in the U.S. society. These depictions were wrong then and they are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed.''
-->Introduction disclaimer presented by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg on ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Spotlight Collection'' and ''Vol. 1'' digital release

->''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 ''ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS''.''

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

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

-->'''Lapis Lazuli''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture''

->''Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How can the thing we've always done just suddenly be wrong?''
-->'''Lapis Lazuli''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture

->''"What's hard to miss are the far less politically correct jokes, which [=StarVista=] thankfully hasn't removed, noting that [[ViewerDiscretionAdvised it was a different time]]. It's amazing now to hear people make jokes about Italians and Polish people, but it's rather stunning to hear one comic make a watermelon joke... only to have Rickles follow it up with his jive impersonation. Better to know the past than to pretend it never happened."''

->''"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/TheBirthOfANation 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."''

-->-- '''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/8-bizarre-horrors-found-in-squarest-comic-book-ever/ "8 Bizarre Horrors Found in the Squarest Comic Book Ever"]]

->''The trouble is, I was well brought up in terms of minding my P’s and Q’s, and I say thank you very readily. This, though, I was told, is actually impolite in Mongolia. You can thank a host at the end of a visit but not for every cup of tea or glass of vodka. That would be insulting to your host because it implies that there was even a ghost of a shadow of a chance that they would'' not ''have been hospitable.''
-->-- The [[http://staywhereyouare.fvu.co.uk/part-4-sacred-hospitality/ Stay Where You Are]] project

->''"...what a lot of people forget about early cartoons [...] is that they could be really fucking dark. See, back then, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it wasn't generally understood that kids needed to have their delicate sensibilities protected, as odds were pretty good they were all going to die in a European trench war before they turned eighteen, anyway]]. So thematically, cartoons were lighter on wholesome lessons about friendship and heavier on skeletons and racism."''
-->--'''Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw''', likening ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}''[='=]s animation style to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, in WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNN2etNrBoE review]] of ''Cuphead''

->''You know, mythology and folklore as a whole is a really incredible field to study. There's so much creativity and wonder, and it's really fun recognizing story elements that have persisted to the modern day or been adapted in one way or another to stories we actually recognize. But sometimes, you find a myth that really reminds you that you're studying a different culture from a different time and place, and that culture from a different time and place might have held some pretty nasty attitudes towards your demographic specifically, and they didn't hesitate to document those attitudes for posterity, and that can kind of sting.''
-->-- '''Red''' from '''WebOriginal/OverlySarcasticProductions''' on [[https://youtu.be/geaJPQkDXKk Pandora]]

-->--Red from ''WebOriginal/OverlySarcasticProductions'', on [[https://youtu.be/geaJPQkDXKk Pandora]]

->''"She kept calling the Indians {{n|WordPrivileges}}iggers for some reason, so I said 'No, no, no, it's the ''West'' Indians who are niggers. These people are ''[[DiscriminateAndSwitch Wogs]].''"''

-->--'''Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw''', likening ''VideoGame/{{Cuphad}}''[='=]s animation style to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, in WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNN2etNrBoE review]] of ''Cuphead''

->''"She kept calling the Indians [[NWordPrivileges niggers]] for some reason, so I said 'No, no, no, it's the ''West'' Indians who are niggers. These people are ''[[DiscriminateAndSwitch Wogs]].''"''

-->--'''[[http://www.avclub.com/review/the-making-of-a-lady-is-made-of-nonsense-201063 Sonia Saraiya]]''' on ''The Making of a Lady'' (2014)

->''"Improved social equality means that everyone is free to call out everyone else's bullshit, and male comedians aren't particularly used to that. They aren't used to being told, "Watch your mouth," when women and minorities have been told that over and over again for a very long time."''
-->--'''[[http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2015/04/trevor-noah-daily-show-comedy.html Drew Magary]]'''

->''"Mopey, heart-sick Screech is the epitome of that wretched sitcom trope, where moon-eyed losers spend season after season trailing behind the female character they’re desperately smitten with, and usually fated to end up marrying. [[{{Series/Friends}} Ross and Rachel]], [[{{Series/Frasier}} Niles and Daphne]]; the ''“keep plugging away and you’ll get her in the end”'' storyline doubtless encourages stalker behaviour in the sort of guys who believe in the existence of the Friendzone, and feel like they’re owed reciprocation for being a ‘nice guy’."''
-->--'''[[https://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/so-excited-so-scared-screechs-woman/ Stuart Millard]]''' on ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', ''So Excited, So Scared''

->''With those who follow a different Way it is useless to take counsel.''