Old Radio Shows Canceled After Being Deemed Racist.

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Wisconsin Public Radio is dropping its longtime weekend broadcasts of old-time radio shows from the 1930s to the 1960s. They say they are unable to find any shows without offensive content.

The dramas and comedies are from the “Golden Age of Radio” and have been running for decades. The last show will air this Sunday.

WPR Director Mike Crane says many of the shows from that era contain racist and sexist content. “Despite significant effort over the years, it has been nearly impossible to find historic programs without offensive and outdated content. And, ultimately, these programs don’t represent the values of WPR and The Ideas Network’s focus on public service through news and information,”

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  1. What a bunch of whiny babies! Good God! Sorry decrepit old white people, you don’t get to journey back to the good old days of routine broadcast institutionalized racism. How terrible it must be for all of you!

    I can’t imagine how you all would howl if these shows depicted white people in this manner. For some reason I think most of you don’t have too much longer to live/complain. You might want to start thinking how you will justify yourselves to God Almighty someday soon.

    Before you reply with a bunch of racist insults, for your information, I’m white, in my sixties and love U.S. history which, though it may have some hiccups (like Treasonous Trump), is continuing it upward trend to fulfilling it’s promise to ALL it’s citizens. And, yeah, Black Lives Matter!

  2. This is what happens after 60 years of “Hate America” indoctrination in Democrat owned & operated schools from coast-to-coast in the USA. America is circling the drain at 78 rpm. The 1st thing the communists did when they took over Russia in 1917 was to create civil unrest, erase the history it didn’t agree with, and destroy the culture. America is undergoing it’s 2nd Civil War and an economic depression that Planet Earth has never dealt with ever before, and there will be very few survivors this time. America has been brainwashed into voting their snowflake, victimized feelings, rather than with their brains. Thank you so much Wisconsin Radio for helping to push America off the cliff with your enlightened, “get even with whitey” cancel culture. Wisconsin Radio, you social justice heroes, go suck your thumb put your 15 Dr. Fauci survival masks on, and suffocate in mommy & daddy’s basement bedroom.

  3. The intolerance for anything that doesn’t fit their plan is the trademark of the left who got into power preaching tolerance, diversity and differences. Shameful!

  4. I have long thought the classic radio shows were full of very cruel racial sterotypes that need to go. This has nothing to do with liberal values, it has all to do with love and support for folks that are different. Let’s learn to see the world with new eyes.

  5. As someone who has logged numerous hours volunteering for Wisconsin Public Broadcasting, as well as financially supporting it, it saddens me that my conscience will no longer permit me to do so. I’m fairly certain suppressing and rewriting history isn’t included anywhere in the Wisconsin Idea. Bob LaFollette is surely turning-over in his grave.

  6. Let’s pretend these shows did not exist and yank them off the air, stop playing the National Anthem at sporting events or anywhere in public, take down every statue & defund the police departments. Happy now lefty?

  7. That is one of the few shows I listen to on WPR and have done so for years. But no, Suspense, Fibber McGee and Molly and Boston Blackie are “racist” and “sexist”? Tons of supporters of this show don’t seem to think so. This is the most absurd censorship, not that any idiotic idea hatched in Madison should surprise me. But it’s interesting that it is now the left who has decided to play nanny and decide what we can and cannot consume.

    • Be sure to remember that when they run their next pledge drive. I would not give WPR a dime after such an asinine move.

  8. Try to find a copy of Disney’s “Song of the South ” cartoon movie. I saw it as a child (I am now 79). You can’t find it as Disney removed it as “racist”. More new age crap from liberal brain dead morons. Go Donald. KAGA

  9. Another reason to DE – FUND public B.S. radio. Do any of you people know the value of American history.
    Did any of you study American History in High School or College or did you just listen to
    the lying, progressive assholes teaching the class !

  10. Yes, black lives matter.

    But, whether it’s here, or in so many other decisions being made, recently, we just keep jumping off the proverbial cliff.

    Where does it all end?

  11. Good call. Someone should probably destroy most of the movies ever produced and cancel stand-up comedy shows in general. We’re much too sensitive to take most of it.

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