Yes it was. The red herring in the room is the Confederate Flag on the General Lee. But watching the show itself it was about helping out your family and your neighbors. Car chases, dealing with the corrupt and inept sherrif department of Hazard County and about GOOD country music.
No curse words and no excessive sexual innuendo like Two and a Half Men did. Nor was their racism although it was an all white main cast and there weren’t many minority minor characters Sherriff Little comes to mind as one.
I believe they should still show the Dukes on Me-TV and other outlets but just present at beginning of the show a disclaimer about the Confederate Flag and note the reason for the valid condemnation from those who have personally been adversely affected by its history of being.
The cancel culture of Bud Light is wrong just as it is with the Black Listing of what is essentially a good family television show.
The flag was accurate for the time, place, and characters of the show and I have no problem with it because TV is fake. I grew up in the deep South and saw a lot of Confederate battle flags and its image on shirts, hats, bandannas etc… until about 20 years ago. I still see the flag around but mostly on backroads and trashy trucks.
We only ever flew the American flag at my house as a kid and still do. The Civil War was an interesting point in history but the Confederacy is nothing to glorify.
I would agree with you, except the flag.
I loved hogan’s heroes, now imagine the whole cast stood up and pledged allegiance to the nazi flag every episode.
People have a right to be offended by that flag, I kind of am, but I also agree that’s really the only problem, otherwise it’s actually fine. Even the name general Lee isn’t that bad.
Still, would we be having this conversation if it was the nazi flag (which it basically is, both stood for the same thing)?
Agree and the flag was just kind of there. Don’t really remember dialog in the episodes discussing the flag although I was young.
So when it comes to dialog the Dukes didn’t promote an ideology just reflected a southern flavor on family life.
But even though the Confederate flag is offensive to many this still isn’t reason for the blacklisting of the show outside of DVD sales.
Blacklisting? Probably not.
People generally being pissed about it? Oh definitely.
Again, imagine it was the Nazi flag.
To some southerners that flag represents heritage. To others it represents cruelty and genocide. I’m not sure the former is wrong, but the latter is absolutely right.
They were just good old boys, never meaning no harm.
I feel like to equate a targeted campaign based around hatred and influencing corporate culture to shun an entire group of people with a television show not being rerun because it heavily features a symbol of hate in every episode is like, not great. These two things are not equal.
Not buying a can of beer and not allowing a family TV show to air on TV? I see nothing wrong with comparing as they are both symptoms as to what is wrong with America and that is CANCEL culture run amuck.
Cancel culture isn’t exclusively associated to thealt-rigtht MAGA crowd.
Only bigots have ‘cancel cultured’ Bud Light.
