Not the Rooster Cogburn statuette. The TV. (Although I could mistakenly assume that you watch the TV that's in your TV room...)

The pendulum is bound to take out a few innocent icons as it travels recklessly in the opposite direction.We can't go back in time and fix it correctly so perhaps some character back stories, movies, books, etc. have to go. They might not have been made the same way if after the Civil War things were done right or at least much better. I'm all for surgically removing the racism from the world and allowing people to properly use empathy and context when examining what must go. But the human race as a whole isn't capable of that vision. The human race seems to prefer snapping the fingers on the infinite gauntlet to of a long, steady correction full of careful consideration. Maybe in another 1000 years we will be more enlightened.

And I confess, I just watched "McClintock!" over the weekend wherein the Duke is a pretty liberal fellow, if kinda stiff. Okay, and it's a must see.. it is a damn-funny western. It's on my don't miss list; I highly recommend it.

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Shortly before the lockdown started, a revival house in my area was showing Buster Keaton's The General with live Wurlitzer accompaniment. The film is a hoot, no doubt, but it was genuinely difficult divorcing ourselves from the concept that a Confederate soldier is supposed to be the bad guy.

The worst part was the end, where Keaton is "rewarded" for his service with the commission he had been seeking. I couldn't avoid thinking, "Wow, this poor schmuck is going to die horribly."

The Stone Age Caper, a Modesty Blaise story originally published in 1971,  has run into trouble in Australia.

Apology from the paper concerned.

The shortened form of "Aborigine" is used throughout the story, by heroes and villains alike, and is also used in narrative captions. Even Modesty and Willie's friend Jacko uses it when referring to himself and his people.

Speaking of Australia, an apropos Jim Jeffries segment from last year. 

Unless you think criminals are actually going to do that, it's a snarky reductio ad absurdum. It's a valid question, but it's validity rests on pointing out the logical absurdity of the defunding concept. A UCLA professor was suspended for asking equally valid questions when asked to give leniency to black students on his final exam.