42 Tactless, Downright Insensitive Moments From Pop Culture’s Past

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42 Tactless, Downright Insensitive Moments From Pop Culture’s Past

Creators of edgy material are usually ready to roll their eyes at anyone who might be offended, but we wonder how their stance holds up over time. Years after their work sees the light of day, are they still spouting blanket statements like, “People are so sensitive these days,” or have they come to a realization that they may have insulted or even marginalized an entire community? 

We need your help answering those questions today. We’ll provide the material, you tweet the creator and get their feelings on the matter.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

In 1992 we saw our fun loving pal Michelangelo turn into an angry mexican stereotype. In an effort to pack even more racism into the Wacky Wild West line, Playmates included Chief Leo. CRACKED.COM

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Aladdin

The genie almost looked like a Jewish stereotype. Robin Williams' performance in Aladdin is peppered with Yiddish words. The original concept art was

Whitewashing

When in order to avoid a negative racist stereotype... They end up whitewashing characters instead... Is it so difficult tto keep the original charact

G.I. Joe

OF A JUMBLE SPIRIT WAS SHAPE IN THE STEREOTYPES FIGURE. OF AN ACTION Everything about G.I. Joe figure Spirit was a Native American stereotype, startin

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!

Punch Out!! Soda Popinski was originally named something much more overtly offensive: Vodka Drunkenski.

Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher POPCHIPS CRACKED COM Kutcher put on brownface and his most offensive accent to play this Love Guru-esque Bollywood producer trying to s

Intel

Intel CRACKED.COM Intel promised to maximize the power of your employees with this portrait of a modern-day plantation owner. They tried to pull the ad, which they admitted was insensitive and insulting, but one publication squeaked it out by accident.

Salesgenie.com

Salesgenie .com OO GRACKED.COM This ad features two wildly insensitive caricatures who eat their own inventory while complaining that We have no customers. No sales. We going out of business. It ran during the Super Bowl but was pulled shortly thereafter.

Back to the Future

Back to the Future CRACKEDCON A thankfully deleted scene features a homophobic spin on the Grandfather Paradox. Says Marty, This is the kinda thing t

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Janeane Garafalo on Saturday Night Live

42 Tactless, Downright Insensitive Moments From Pop Culture’s Past
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Friends

42 Tactless, Downright Insensitive Moments From Pop Culture’s Past

The Big Bang Theory

Our fathers who art in Hollywood, CRACKED COM deliver US from the trope of the conservative, scientifically illiterate, evolution-denying, homophobic

Sexism at Disney

This 1939 promotional documentary describes the Inking and Painting process: The Inking Department. Here, hundreds of pretty girls color the drawings
Source: YouTube

The Triumph of Civic Virtue

NEWYORK'S TRIUMPH OF CIVIC VIRTUE IS PROBLEMATIC, AT BEST. Even in 1922, Triumph of Civic Virtue was seen as sexist, and sparked protests at its City

Snow White

Specifically, to women who applied to be animators. They were told that the creative work was only for men... Wiomen do not do any of the creative wor

DC Comics

EARLY AQUAMAN AND WONDER WOMAN WERE BITTERLY RACIST. AMAN SLIP SWITLY THROLGI HEE COME ALONG LITTLE YELLOW UNDERSEA DOGGIE.D RE'T PASSAGE yowp THAT PA

Aunt Jemima

THE RACIST HISTORY OF AUNT JEMIMA Aunt Jemima Aunt Jemima is a popular brand of self- rising pancake mix owned by the Quaker Oats Company (a subsidiar

Avatar

MOVIES THAT SHOW LOCAL SOCIETIES AS HELPLESS UNTIL A CAUCASIAN HERO COMES ALONG TO SAVE THEM. WILL BE VIEWED AS BEING HORRIBLY RACIST. AVATAR CRACKED

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The scriptwriter wanted to change Oogie BOOgie because she thought he was a racist caricature. Oogie Boogie had ugly, dangerous, racist connotations

Source: SlashFilm

Goofy

THERE'S NO PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY. Goofy's origins were racist. CRACKED.COM

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