Lee Bockhorn on
selective sanitizing in Dirty Harry movies and Tom and Jerry cartoons.I'm going to make a case for calling our Times the Culture of Contradiction. It drives me nuts: Sanitizing pop culture products of what's considered "insensitive" comments related to homosexuals or racial imagery, doing an ethnic cleansing on literature for the NY Regents' exam, but then, at the very same time, in the very same cultural breath, arguing against restrictions on (mostly) sexual content that's on free broadcast television or the content of federally-funded art exhibits in the name of freedom of speech.
Other examples:
Claiming that access to music, television programs and movies that contain sexual suggestiveness and worse is okay for kids because they recognize that it's not real life and it doesn't affect them....
but then....
Declaring that tobacco and alcohol advertisements must be regulated and suppressed because...it might affect kids.
Saying that television is just fantasy and has no impact on our lives, therefore not to worry about its content...but then....Interest groups - gay, environmental, ethinic - describe their efforts to impact the content of television programs through meetings with network execs, boycotts, awards for "positive portrayals" and so on.
But if it doesn't matter....then...why...
Or this
Decrying incidents of sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church
but then...
Publishing interested, "balanced" articles about the attempts of researchers and activists like Judith Levine (Harmful to Minors to de-stigmatize the sexual activity of children, with each other and with adults.
Or this:
Celebrating the triumphs of medicine in relation to saving preterm babies and operating on children in the womb
but then....
Protecting the killing of children the same age as a "right."
Your examples welcome.