Opening Commentary by Whoopi Goldberg on the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3" on DVD. 

To summarize: "Those who don't learn from their history are doomed to repeat it."

@Rika Tomoe ok rika

@Rika Tomoe No you're the Jew

@Rika Tomoe THAT'S RACIST!

@Rika Tomoe I do not "love" Disney like most folks. I'll watch the movies and tv shows on Disney+, but I will never set foot in any of their parks on the basis that they have implied that they no longer want poor people in their park. Also, F**k you and your future generations for that rude remark. Go uninstall your Internet and think about what you've done.

In other words, the age-old adage that those who don't learn from their history are doomed to repeat it. I agree 100%.

Exactly

It IS happening again, and it is not one-sided politically.

Why they never thought of this is beyond me.

@@l.tc.5032 Well, have you seen the warnings about racial stereotypes they have for the animated classics on Disney+?

​@@jeremyriley1238 Yeah that was a good move, although the warning is not just limited to racial stereotypes. Only difference is Warner Bros. plays the warning on screen before the film and Disney+ appends their warning at the end of their descriptions.

Vasconium Disney are fucking pussies.

@@l.tc.5032 Because they're hypocrites (and they do want to erase their inconvenient past).

@@DamnMyNickIsTaken got anything to back that up? haven't heard a claim like that before.

I think I could listen to her talk all day.

When she was an entertainer and informer. Now she is part of the woke mind virus using mainstream media to cancel everyone who doesn't bend the knee.

Well the animators had to animate what they were told, whoever did the storyboard was insensitive.

@@1sub2videos60 That is true, especially when it came to the World War II propaganda cartoons having the Japanese characters as they were portrayed, as they were the enemy back in that time.

@@1sub2videos60 cartoons back then were made differently than cartoons today. It was all done at the same location and was much more of a close knit team effort where every person involved in the production was there for every step of the process. They all sat and got a presentation of the storyboard and could add their two cents etc. Everybody was in on all the gags.

I mentioned on someone's tweet that they should have added disclaimers in the books rather than just discontinuing them.

@@BrianRetro Same goes for Stark Raving Dad from The Simpsons, Song of the South and two SpongeBob episodes.

I think a better option is to keep it how it is on Disney+, but create a new free website called Disney Archives, with archives of these unedited films with disclaimers placed at the start. That way, everyone's happy. :)

What if Disney+ also had a random actor/character narrate the content advisory instead of only showing it for 12 seconds?

And then, that's darn it. That's how can a win-win situation can work. Also Me: I want to bring Br'er Fox back, but as a Furry Rorschach.

It's now my headcanon this was Guinan, not Whoopi Goldberg.

I know. The anti white racism is off the charts and so wrong.

Well the do on Disney+ with some episodes of The Muppet Show, Fantasia, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and more short films that have that.

Whoopi Goldberg should do a similar introduction for the TNG episode "Code of Honor", the episode that is summarized as "planet of black people kidnap white woman."

@@koshi6505 That's the big problem? That they kidnap a white woman? They kidnap her only because she's the head of security. Also, it's Lutan that kidnaps her, not the whole planet, he choose her specifically because he needed her skills to carry on his plan, it has nothing to do with the fact that she's white or the rest of the planet.

I always thought Speedy was cute.

He was the first Hispanic character in a cartoon ever made.

Yeah, as someone who grew up with Looney Tunes, I love Speedy Gonzales.

I don't think I've ever met a Mexican who was embarrassed or offended by speedy - in fact they love that he simply exists! and I say this as a Hispanic who grew up around Mexican elders

Thanks for the transcript!

Lol she didn’t write this, she still sucks

What's wrong with her lol

@@TheStarBot shes mediocre

@@jknifgijdfui As someone who's competing in the USA Special Olympics next week and knowing she's an admin for the games I won't say too much about her. I thought she was a good actress though.

@@jknifgijdfui Then again, this DVD release she was in was before she went woke.

I don't think Disney would acknowledge that, because the Disney empire was started by a born racist. Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was a bigot all his life.

@@stewartlynch1284 .........He WAS?!?!?!?!?!?! 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲

Stewart Lynch No he was not! He really was not! Wherever you got that bullshit “information” is exactly that! Bullshit! Look at Walt Disney’s Wikipedia page. It says there that none of Disney’s employees, including the animator Art Babbit, who hated Disney intensely, ever accused him of racism or bigotry or anti-Semitism. Disney also donated to Jewish charities, was named “1955 Man of the year” by the B’nai B’rith chapter in Beverly Hills and employed a number of Jews, some of whom were in influential positions. So it’s clearly obvious that Walt Disney was not a racist! And don’t you dare say that Wikipedia is full of shit because “aNyOnE cAn ChAnGe WhAtEvEr ThEy WaNt On ThErE”, because the EXACT same thing can be said about IMDB, but you probably think IMDB is somehow “truthful”.

Breaking TEN exactly. Thats a fact

​@@ZemeckisTENYou're probably one of the Disney+ employees.

3, 4, and 5 are okay. It's Volume 6 that is not for kids (since it has World War II cartoons on one disc).

Bugs Bunny is in some of them.

I really, really wish Looney Tunes had more stuff aimed at their adult audience

There are also cartoons about World War 1 and the Civil War which also contain racial caricatures mainly blackface.

Glad I wasn't the only one.

I love the fact that she doesn't have eyebrows but you don't really notice it

Same here

LOLLLL Oh stop it. She's a demon.

It’s not the companies’ own faults, their just doing their jobs to make money, after all it’s just business. I blame too much social media for starting the whole cancel culture thing and the USA government for the 2 party political system that drives a wedge between the left wing liberal Democrat/social justice warriors pushing the whole diversity, racial insensitivity a little too far (not that I blame them but while their heart is in the right place, I feel like they’re getting carried away and they’re not different from the right) and the right wing conservative republican/anti SJW/ satanic panic Illuminati/new world order/end times bible prophecy/flat earth/Q-anon fear mongering conspiracy theories who are being big jerks with all that irrational negativity about Jewish people taking over America and our business and the entertainment industry with the whole Rockefeller/Jesuit/freemasonry bullshit, bitching and complaining about diversity ruining the Hollywood entertainment industry (which is definitely NOT because I can think of million real reasons that could ruin Hollywood but I don’t think I should make a long comment or we’ll be here for a thousand years), hating on gay and lesbian people just because it’s against the Bible and it results in pedophilia (that’s like saying that eating meat and fish caused the coronavirus, according to the vegans), thinking that the virus is fake and global warming is a hoax and saying cartoons are satanic, the go woke go broke crap, thinking Trump is a best president ever (that’s a lie because Trump sucks and we can’t forget about the incident on January 6th), thinking that future presidents is the Antichrist and they are not it, believing the government made the frogs gay which is not true because it’s science and a whole lot of other bullshit that I could go on and on and on. This whole 21st century millennium curse caused by the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks are also possible in how much our society, politics and entertainment have gone downhill in some places throughout the y2k period. But for Disney, their CEO, Bob Iger is a Democrat supporter and he goes out of his way to ruin a company for all the wrong reasons and it’s crazy & I’m getting tired of the same old constant blame and bashing on the left wing for all the problems in America, the entertainment industry and the world because being a Democrat supporter is neither a excuse nor a reason to run a entertainment company down to a ground by making cruddy, crappy, shitty, terrible, horrible, really bad garbage movies and I like to see some right wing people do the same thing as the left do. If the industry want more diversity in movies and cartoons, that’s fine. If the industry wants to fix a problem with the lack of minorities in film and in the Oscar nominees to put a end to the whole Oscar so white nonsense, so be it. And if they can’t stand Trump, I don’t blame them. However if they are going to do the diversity thing, they need to do it right. They should not make money off of it or pretend to care and pander to the crowd or follow some bullshit social media trend and vise versa. They want diversity? They should really mean it. They need to really care. They need to be in our shoes and walk a mile in them and have empathy for every human being of every color, race, gender, disability, etc. Being a leftist should not be a reason to run a good company like Disney and it doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum you are whether Democrat or republican, left or right, liberal or conservative, politics should not ever get in the way of quality entertainment and this is what the United States government’s 2 party political system is trying to make us do and people should not spend too much time on social media with the dumb trends, and other stuff. I don’t know about Warner bros but they did milk Scooby Doo and force Cartoon Network to air teen titans go so I could care less except for the tiny toons reboot that’s coming out as well as jellystone.

The Hollywood industry is also the blame for some status quo to make reboots that doesn’t make sense.

I, like I hope most of America, don't even care about that because the Looney Tunes were a product of their time and that time passed a long time ago.

I think because in looney tunes the joke is on the minorities, while in family guy the joke is on the people who believe in the stereotypes. Personally, I don't see a big deal in it. I am sure there are a good amount of minorities, if not most, who weren't affected at all by looney tunes, and that Disney has whoopi Goldberg doing this because of public image. On the opposite side, perhaps any/ all negative depictions of race needs to be addressed. On the opposite *opposite* side, a lot of classic literature shows negative depictions about race. I.e, The merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, and to push against those depictions would be to push against most classical literature.

In all honesty this comment doesn't reflect my views now lol

"I TURN NOW, GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY ELLLLLSE!"

+guinness4life Anti-semitism IS racism, in the theory of racial distinctions races are generally categorised into Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid, these are then split into races of which the Semitic race is one. The caucasoid races include Aryans (subdivided into Nordic, Alpine and Mediterranean, with the Nordic race being what many people believe the Aryan race was, blond hair blue eyes etc.), Semites and Hamites.

I would assume that it's since Family Guy is intended for adults, while these cartoons are aimed at kids.

I'm 75% Polish and I say Polish jokes all the time. I think they replaced "Polish" with "Blonde" because it seems like every blonde joke used be a Polish joke. I guess it's okay to make fun of a person's hair color but not their ethnicity.

It's literally 2 min. And 32 seconds. You and you're dad are harboring some unnecessary bitterness for something you can just tune out before you're interest perks at the sound of the Looney Tunes intro.

Spectra Light the first time we watched it. It’s not like after that we’re just gonna sit there for 2 minutes. What are we gonna watch the commercials on a DVD as well? It’s using common sense. If you’ve seen something once, and it doesn’t benefit you, you skip it, at least in my perspective.

@@megarollxrgmbroadcasting91 So you would watch the disc showing the same cartoons over and over again, but a 2 minute disclaimer took too much of your valuable time to repeat cartoons you watched previously, which also don't benefit you in any lasting way?

Think of it the same as a trigger warning, to put it frank, "don't like don't watch," but these are classics that can still be enjoyed by everyone and anyone, "but watch at your own transgressions."

Do you know where I could find that one?? Sounds interesting...

hogglumps NO, AND STOP SCREAMING, you ignorant jerk!

no

🤔 Cartoons with ethnic/gender insensitivity vs a statue of someone who fought for the right to own slaves and to separate the south from America .... NO, not the same thing.

Actually, if you saw my these on TV, you did see them edited, especially if you saw them on Saturday mornings on ABC from the mid-80s until 2000.

He doesn’t represent the White men as foolish moron he was created by white guys in there 20s and 30s .

Please for the love of fucking god do research before you comment something this stupid

I think this goes under the disclaimer too.

hsew there's a major difference between this and confederate symbols. I don't think that learning about the civil war and what the confederate flag means should be erased from our history books, because education on those topics is very important. The problem is the people who wave confederate flags with pride, because they are standing for racial inequality/racism. The reason these things exist for cartoons is because it doesn't reflect the views of the creators anymore. But the confederate flags still waving show that people still support racism, and are still very offensive. So this warning would mean nothing.

Umm confederate flags should be kept in museums, not in every day society.

Jonathan Guzman I bet you didn’t give two shits about the confederate flag and I bet it didn’t both you one bit until that idiot shot up the church and the media told you it was bad, am I right?

@@ShockMe1994 Confederate flag was the flag the south wanted to keep when it tried to separate itself from the United States. It symbolizes division and separation during a dark time in America. Waving it around is pretty unAmerican because those people aren't pledging to the Constitutional flag we have now as if their still pushing for separation of America. It's different from waving around a Mexican or Chinese, etc. Flag because those people are valuing their heritage and culture, the Confederate flag only holds a small piece of history with no real value to it other than division. And no offense but people should find it humiliating they're honoring a flag named after the weakest form of government America has had known as, The Articles of Confederatation.

Spectra Light over time, things take on different meaning, even black people fought for the confederacy, to most people who fly that flag it simply means southern pride or rebel, it means nothing more.

Spokker .....I cant believe i seriously just read this

CZ PC he's right though. They're just jokes, they were not wrong then since the culture and climate were completely different, and they certainly can't be wrong now since they're relics from the past that can't be held accountable to new subjective standards. Even at the parts you deem inexcusable, they're works of art that animators painstakingly drew, redrew, colored or painted hundreds upon hundreds of times to bring us amazing cartoons. If you don't like it, don't watch it, and certainly don't change it.

@@rj6806 thats like saying Slavery wasn't wrong back in the day because it was simply a way of life for many. Just because it was considered normal at the time doesn't mean it was right.

@@Joshcoshbagosh Exactly.

@@Joshcoshbagosh So what? We should pretend slavery never happened? We should remove all signs that it happened?

I hate you so much that it's unreal, you're racist! AREN'T YOU ASHAMED!

It's important to listen to this, doc!

1. This has absolutely nothing to do with Whoopi... she's an actor... you know, gets paid to say thing on TV, movies, etc... 2. It took myself and many others over a decade in a world wide campaign to convince Warner Brothers to release the original Looney Tunes uncut and uncensored as they were going to do what Disney did... which was incinerate any of their original works that could be found offensive. Considering your idiotic and hateful rant against this actor simply doing her job you might want to give a second thought about whether you have in fact moved beyond racism... I for one have to wonder if you would be this stupid if the actor were white.

ivanmarsh 1> She can simply refuse to do the intro, plain and simple. PLUS given her track record of "pulliing the race card," it's more something I'd not want on the volume. 2> Kudos for you and many others. I'm glad some things are saved. I just think this comentary put before the menu system (instead of maybe, y'know, EXTRAS) is stupid. As far as the "color" of the idiot providing the commentary, I don't care. It could be two irish lasses with sexy voices wearing nothing but cut-off shirts and daisy dukes holding beer, and I STILL wouldn't want to listen (and btw, I am irish). I didn't start spewing anything on her race or culture... I just think it stupid that people get offended still from a Looney Toons short, and they have to have some stupid actor that talks for 2-3 minutes to tell you "Ooooo some of the stuff is racist..." A green-screen and the text of what Whoopi said for 10 seconds would have been plenty sufficient, or even a sticker on the DVD cover. If you think that is racist, you're the moron.

Shilar, you dissapoint me.

George Bradley Did you watch the video? She literattly is talking about doing the exact opposite

LMFAO "supposedly," 😂 are you dead serious speculating whether or not that's true?

Blah blah...

George Bradley shut up you intolerable fool