After watching this video pertaining a friend sent to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKvZqjAkbA
Do you think Jason David Frank would be considered an unacceptable target, or is it still too early to tell?
Now that he passed away, wouldn't Pelé be on this list too? I'm from Brazil and very few people try to critucize him on anything, and the ones who do (specially in football community) are heavily bashed.
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Why exactly are Mao Zedong, The Kim Dynasty and Xi Jingping all on the list of unacceptable targets? ignoring any political bias (of my own or anyone else), they are all considered extremely controversial figures, and really aren't "unacceptable" targets outside of their own countries. Whereas a lot of the other targets listed off are generally considered unacceptable or offensive to mock worldwide, or at least in the western world.
On the acceptable political targets page, both The People's Republic of China and North Korea are listed as acceptable targets. I really think Xi Jingping and The Kim Dynasty should be removed from the page.
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I asked the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement forum this before and got no response. I agree with you that they really don't qualify.
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What is that symbol that appears next to "Prophet Muhammed"?
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Did a quick google search, it's an Arabic phrase that roughly translates to "May Allah honor him and grant him peace" or "peace and blessings of Allah be upon him", it is often said after Prophet Muhammad's name.
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Split, rewrite, or leave as-is?, started by batgirl1 on Jun 14th 2011 at 12:15:22 AM
I think about Happy Heroes in-universe version of the trope about season 13 of queen (or Candy Queen) of Planet Gray, but I already added it to The Scottish Trope and I don't think if I add the same to this page but much more information. Well someone (such of SparkPlugtheTroper) answer me if I could add it or not?
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American television in general, at least to people who are not American. Expressing your distaste for it can cause lots of Netflix lovers to come at you and blame you for being so rose-tinted about your crappy culture and insulting something that is inherently better.
Why is this there? Not every drama seems interesting or good.
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With Cyberpunk 2077 having released in an Obvious Beta state, the horror stories of its Troubled Production coming out, and the transparent attempt to appease China by pulling Devotion from GOG.com, it's now safe to say that CD Projekt RED is now an Acceptable Target, and shouldn't be on the page anymore.
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Should we add rape victims to the list? From what I've heard, jokes about them lead to some rather nasty backlash.
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They're already on Once Acceptable Targets.
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Ironically, I wasn't even aware of what day it was at the time. (Seriously, I'd thought it was maybe the 7th or something). Sorry. =/
Should we add Stephen Hillenburg to this list? Someone on Twitter said that their classmates were happy that he died under the premise that Sponge Bob Square Pants would end, which provoked a bevy of negative reactions from fans.
- Criticizing The Nostalgia Critic is this. Believe us, half of the comments removed on this site usually occur because someone dared to criticize or question him for making a bad joke, a Shallow Parody, a Dude, Not Funny! gag or not doing proper research before making a particularly subjective or even flatout ignorant statement in his show or in his editorials. Even if the criticism is made by people who like the show it still doesn't help.
I removed this because he is definitely not a Sacred Cow, and it seems more talking about an Complaining About People Not Liking the Show attitude than anything else. But removing it also makes me feel like I'm doing what the entry says, so... thoughts?
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Criticism of the Nostalgia Critic doesn't seem to fly on this site without creating a Flame War. It's just not accepted by his fans and seeing that Doug is quite popular among tropers every other negative comment about him (much like the one above) will be removed. I like Doug Walker, but he is a fallible being like anyone else. Some of his jokes have fallen flat in the past, or been a bad parody, or have potential to offend some people. There have been weaker episodes, even ones where he was clearly just releasing something because he ran out of time (the notable "Let's Play" rant video). But on the other hand it's almost inevitable if you release as many videos per week as he does. You're bound to say or do things that you didn't really think through or will offend some segment of the viewers. The same applies to his Critical Research Failure. He has a lot of videos where he speaks his mind about a variety of topics, and since 2013 he does this on a two weekly basis between other projects. It's not surprising that his opinions can be badly researched or rather short and shallow. I mean, most of the time they only take a couple of minutes or so.
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There are still tons of gross jokes about disabilities, especially mental disabilities. I want to live in a world where jokes about us aren't acceptable. :(
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Agreed. But this isn't relevant to the article.
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I disagree with the examples on cats. Sure Anonymous has that reputation, but there's plenty of media that play cats getting hurt or dying for laughs.
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Is Unacceptable Targets a Censorship Trope? If Too Soon fits, I'm thinking this does too.
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Yes. The trope is specifically about topics which people aren't "allowed" to criticize, or where those with opposing viewpoints are actively suppressed or attacked. This is pretty much the definition of censorship (even if you think it's justified).
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I'm not sure that any of these examples fit (although i found a place for the Berserk example in Once Acceptable Targets). I'll keep them here just in case someone can find a place for them.
- Berserk Abridged plays much of the original series for humor, but it doesn't really play Guts' Rape as Backstory for laughs (it's at most, understated Black Comedy), and for this reason, the creator gave the series a happy ending, as there really wasn't a way to make the show's actual ending funny.
- In-universe example, from Discworld: the undead bar Biers is frequented by various terrors of the night and the elderly widow Mrs. Gammidge. No harm is permitted to come to her. To clarify: the other bar patrons collectively instituted this rule, it was not dropped on them from above.
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- In Old Harrys Game, pretty much every famous person in history is in Hell, and current celebrities will either be demons in disguise or victimized at some point by Satan. However, at one point, Satan has to make a trip to Heaven and recounts seeing the Queen Mother there, and comments on her looking good for her age.
So, if I understand correctly, the difference between this trope and Once Acceptable Targets is that these targets have never been acceptable to begin with?
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(Edited after some more thought) Maybe. It might get into hair-splitting, if you're vigilant about targets that were mocked at one time by one people in the dark annals of history. I guess the basic rule of thumb is "Oh, you're mocking the Once Acceptable Target? How behind-the-times you are. I will laugh derisively at you." Vs. "You're mocking the Unacceptable Target? YOU MONSTER!!!"
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That's a pretty good reasoning. I'll put some of what you said on the main page so we can have a better understanding.
The implications of changing 'starcraft' to 'starcraft 1'. I lolled.
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Latinos are an Unacceptable target? are you kidding me? they are the blacks for people who don't feel comfortable going after blacks.
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