Ghost_MH Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Peacock pulls racist WWE segments from streaming service WWW.THEVERGE.COM Some fans are displeased with Peacock for deleting history. I guess that explains why they're saying they won't have the entire library up until August. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 That's gonna be very few episodes when they're done pruning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 As long as they have the episodes of The Rock talking about Poontang Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 16 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said: That's gonna be very few episodes when they're done pruning! That's what I'm saying. I don't really watch much wrestling these days, but I watched a WHOLE lot of wrestling I'm the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. If they're looking to chop out the offensive segments, but not pull the entire episode, there are going to be a whole bunch of 15 minute episodes all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 rip attitude era Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 RIP this episode 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69los Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 rip ECW Hopefully, New Jack shows up to their corporate offices and, inexplicably, Natural Born Killaz starts blaring over a loudspeaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 I like imagining some poor NBC employee having to watch Mae Young give birth to a hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Spork3245 said: I like imagining some poor NBC employee having to watch Mae Young give birth to a hand. I’d take that job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 Maybe a thorough review of the content was in line before they paid a billion dollars for it. Also. you guys mention the Attitude Era is bad, but the entire Golden Era 80's is a quagmire of racial, ethnic, and cultural stereotypes portrayed as "the bad guy". Kamala the Ugandan Giant was a guy named James from Mississippi.... I guess I can see cutting the Vinnie n-bomb as low hanging fruit, but anything else and you are basically setting yourself on a path where you are trimming the content till there is little left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 26, 2021 Share Posted March 26, 2021 This would be a perfect place to just slap one of those "content warnings, historical context, yada yada" disclaimers at the start of every episode and call it a day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdeaOfEvil Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 So long everything mid-South wrestling. Plus, this is a rush job to get everything edited before this years Wrestlemania, so there will probably be more edits done due to the hasty nature of Peacock wanting to benefit from cross promotion. And let's not even talk about how this is only a US thing while every other country won't have to go through them and won't have content censored. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 6:48 PM, Chairslinger said: Maybe a thorough review of the content was in line before they paid a billion dollars for it. I remember when Bob Costas confronted Vince about this segment. The thing is, I don't mind it as as storyline. He demeaned Trish, he fired and humiliated Foley, he drove his wife into some comatose state, and every single person got revenge on Vince at Wrestlemania. Trish slapping Vince at the event received a momentous pop; it was earned, the woman getting back at a powerful, power-hungry cretin. It's different than Wrestlemania 19 when HHH said guys like Booker T are there to entertain, to dance, but can never get far, and you have nappy hair, and then beats Booker and that's the end of the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Apparently Piper vs Bad News Brown has been removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdeaOfEvil Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Piper/BNB at WM6 and Vince/Cena/Booker "Wassup my n*gga" have been confirmed as removed already. Next big news is that they hit a road bump with Big Bossman matches and what they want to do about his confederate flag patch. Blur it, completely remove all of his matches for right now, or edit matches down so that his right arm never shows on camera (somehow)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Starting to wonder if the Hulu deal ran out when this started? I have been watching Raw and Smackdown on Hulu after I canceled cable. This weeks Smackdown isn't up yet. It used to be up Saturday morning and last few weeks Sunday morning. Raw is usually just a few hours later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 1:35 PM, Keyser_Soze said: RIP this episode I knew there would be a great reason why I clicked on a thread I had zero interest in. This video is pure gold, no pun intended. Those reactions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 7:00 PM, Jason said: This would be a perfect place to just slap one of those "content warnings, historical context, yada yada" disclaimers at the start of every episode and call it a day. This 100% ... but because too many people get their feelings hurt, corporations are instead editing out history (regardless of context, the aforementioned content warning should be well more than enough) ... god dammit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 15 hours ago, SoberChef said: This 100% ... but because too many people get their feelings hurt, corporations are instead editing out history (regardless of context, the aforementioned content warning should be well more than enough) ... god dammit. I think the thing they don't want to acknowledge is how recent this is. Nobody bats an eye when Disney is putting these historic context labels on content created in years of Jim Crow. The stuff Peacock is looking to cut out was created in the last ~30 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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