Choose Your Battles

Warner Animation announced that new iterations of Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam would no longer carry guns on the reboot of Looney Toons on HBO Max. This effectively adds the cartoons to the culture war.

My first thought is that this is political correctness gone awry.

And then I saw the outrage on social media. Really? Elmer Fudd's right to bear arms? With all that is going on from coronavirus to BLM to voter suppression to unemployment to...
And this is what you're outraged about?

1. Cartoons are not real.
2. Cartoons do not have Constitutional rights because cartoons are not REAL!
3. See # 1 and #2 and repeat until you understand because CARTOONS ARE NOT REAL.

Choose your battles carefully.

Adding the But...

If you start a sentence to defend someone with, "I know he's a liar but...", you are defending a liar.

If you start a sentence to defend your vote with, "I know he's a bad man but...", you are defending a bad man. 

If you start a sentence to defend a flag with, "You can unfriend me if you want, but...", you are defending something that you know is wrong.

If you start a sentence to defend a point of view with, "I am not a racist, but...", you are at the least about to defend racism or at most a racist.

If a politician starts a sentence with, "I've known him/her to be a good friend, but...", he/she is about to trash his/her "good friend."

Using "but" may make you feel safer in a terrible belief, "but" it does not alter the fact that it is still a terrible belief. You are defending, attacking, protecting something that is clearly indefensible. 

There is simply no buts about it.