39 Times Our Pop-Culture Forefathers Were Just Plain Wrong

Sensitivity and tolerance can progress pretty slowly in pop culture. We suspect that, because tropes involving crude stereotypes helped rake in millions of dollars, Hollywood and the music industry like dipping back into those bounitful wells. It takes a serious shift in the status quo for them to realize that certain problematic jokes, characters, lyrics and plot lines aren’t what the people want anymore. 

Affect their bottom line, though, and changes are made almost automatically. Funny how that works, huh? 

Here’s a good taste of how far pop culture has come…