The Dukes of Hazzard May Get Yanked from Amazon Streaming

[killaphill]

The Dukes of Hazzard has been flagged for internal review at Amazon. The hit 1980s sitcom could end up getting the boot for problematic imagery. The series aired on CBS for 7 seasons and was a success for most of that time, thanks to the adventures of Bo and Luke Duke, along with their cousin Daisy Duke. Concerns over the show's use of the Confederate flag on the iconic vehicle, nicknamed the General Lee, have come up more than once over the past few years, but it looks like now may be the time the boys get cancelled.

Amazon is currently discussing whether or not to remove The Dukes of Hazzard from their streaming service amid the Black Lives Matter protests currently going on around the world. The Confederate flag is a symbol of racism and oppression and has slowly been phased out of public places all over the United States in recent years. NASCAR just made the decision to stop waving the flag at all of their races, which has received mixed reactions over the past few days.

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Can't believe anyone still actually watches this ridiculous, offensive show.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not to mention the iconic car, The General Lee

[backscatter712]

16. Paint it navy blue, rename it the General Sherman

Put a Civil-War-era Union flag on the roof, and make sure the horn's playing John Brown's Body.

[Volaris]

40. I had that thought a while back...would make a hell of a good Netflix show..

I'd watch the hell out of that. Theres a way to do it right, imho

[miyazaki]

31. It was the first thing mentioned.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Tell you what I CAN believe...

a slew of posts informing us of its historical importance and how it's so wrong to stop airing it.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. "The Dukes of Hazzard" isn't exactly "Gone With the Wind". More like "The Beverly Hillbillies"

in terms of its importznce to the culture. I suspect there won't be too many here complaining of its absence.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Ssshhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet

I'm hunting TWOLLS! Hehhehheh.

[Dial H For Hero]

13. Just so long as you use a scythe instead of a shotgun. New rules, donchyaknow.

[obamanut2012]

21. this

[murielm99]

3. My daughter watched it when she was a little girl.

She would always say, "Duke's Hazzard, mommy," and I would turn it on for her. I thought it was a stupid show, but I let her watch it.

She was interested in the silly action, and the symbols went over her head. If she had been older, we would have discussed the symbols.

I am sure I will get replies telling me I am a bad mom. Fire away.

[Blue_Adept]

38. I grew up watching it like so many of us did

It was a pretty well-rated show at the time after all.

Every teenage boy had a poster of Barbara Bach on their wall.

It was basically a hicks version of Knight Rider. Lots of amusing car chases and caricatures of southern lifestyle. Hell, you'd think southerners would be the ones offended by it.

[SixString]

45. Catherine Bach.

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[Coleman]

4. The Dukes were backwoods, southern, "good-ole" boys

What would you expect them to drive? For teenage boys, the stupidity of the show was well worth it because of Daisy in her Daisy Dukes and the General Lee.

[lame54]

6. If they can colorize whole movies...

Can't they erase the flag from the car

[DBoon]

14. Or replace it with a Jack Daniels logo?

[LeftInTX]

44. LOL

Sure, if someone has alot of time and money, it can be done.

[jimfields33]

7. I watched it back in the day

Couldn’t they just digitally remove the flag off the car? Seems more sensible.

[allnews]

8. Let's not get carried away.

It was like that with the flag and good ole boys. We don’t have to hide the truth. Not the same at all as that flag being revered today. Also let’s not wipe the history away. New generation must see how bad some things were. By doing away with the current nuances of racism they will be able to see the differences. We never want the history white washed. Idiots are already trying to say slavery wasn’t all bad.

[obamanut2012]

23. lolz stahp

[blitzen]

9. The Dukes are, in their way, resisters to the evil systematic greed of Boss Hog and his minions...

That positive aspect of the show ought to be taken into account.

[Polybius]

10. The Dukes of Hazzard came at a time before the Klan took over the Confederate flag

The show wasn't purposely offensive, it's just very dated.

[Aristus]

12. The KKK 'took over' the Confederate flag?

What did the flag represent before that? Biscuits and gravy? Hot humid summers? Cicadas?

Nah. The flag has always been about white supremacy and the celebration of the institution of slavery.

[Polybius]

18. A lot of people used to be clueless about it

My family and I are true NYers. I watched that show when I was like 8, and asked my mom what was that flag and why did they have it on their car. She just said something like, "oh, that just means they are proud of the South and being Southern." A lot of non-Southerners had that view at the time (1979 or so).

If she were alive today, I'm sure my mother would have had a different answer, such as "that flag means you're racist." But unfortunately many of us were clueless at the time of that show, probably the producers as well.

[Aristus]

25. She was just telling you what she heard from someone else.

It would be weird for someone to fly the Nazi flag and say it was just because they were proud to be German. And I can't imagine anyone actually offering that as an explanation.

I'm Southern born and raised. Never once did my family of proud Kennedy liberals tell me that that flag was about being proud to be Southern.

In fact, being proud of being Southern isn't something that we talked about much growing up. It seems to be an affliction of believers in the "Lost Cause" myth, instead.

[obamanut2012]

28. This

Also Southern, also liberal with your same experiences.

[obamanut2012]

27. No, they weren't: everyone knows what it stands for

And why stands for it. You may say this to ease your conscience over your (hopefully) former beliefs, but people have known what this piece of shit flag stands for since the 1860s. Period.

"Non-Southerners" also have ALWAYS known what that piece of shit flag stands for, and have used it as a cudgel against those oppressed as much as anyone in the South. Hell, when I'm up nNorth, I see it more than I do where I live.

NONE WERE CLUELESS

[Voltaire2]

29. And you still believe that?

[obamanut2012]

24. lolz you are just a riot

I hope you don't work as a factchecker or history teacher, because your entire post is so wrong and offensive I hope it's parody.

[bullwinkle428]

30. I'm sorry, but this sounds like "History 101" at Trump University!

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Downtown JACKSONVILLE, FL in 1964.

https://jaxpsychogeo.com/all-over-town/jax-klux-klan-politix/

[Polybius]

46. There's more American flags in that picture than Confederate ones

I'm all for removing Confederate flags, but that picture is a bad example. Someone can turn around and say "Are you advocating banning US flags as well?"

I know you're not, obviously.

[kcr]

51. No.

[Mossfern]

15. Never watched it

Just wasn't interested.

[kcr]

52. I wasn't allowed to watch it

It's the only show I can remember my parents banning. I had no interest in it anyway.

[DrToast]

17. I watch a lot of this show back in the day

There wasn't a lick of white supremacy in the show's message.

[HotTeaBag]

19. Yeah...

I loved that show when I was a kid and I've never once felt inclined to fly a confederate flag. But I did manage to obtain a life-long affinity for Bassett Hounds.

[obamanut2012]

35. The MAIN CHARACTER of the show was an obvious white supremacy totem

JFC just keep twisting yourself.

Just saw it sucked, we should have known better, and now we do.

The fucking car was named the General Lee, and played the defacto national anthem of the CSA, an anthem that lauded how much those slaves just loooooved living in the Southland and helping Massa, because them slaves just loooooved being enslaved and having their children sold and beaten and raped by Massa so much.

Imagine a show in Germany where the iconic car in the show was named the General Himmler, and its horn played the Horst Wessel Lied.

It is LITERALLY THE SAME THING

[Polybius]

47. I see your point, but it's not entirely the same

Himmler murdered far more innocent people, and did it in a way that was beyond sick. He tortured people for fun. He was definitely worse.

[tenderfoot]

20. Oh no! Not another show that no one has watched since the late 70s

[obamanut2012]

36. Seriously??? It is a very popular show on streaming platforms

And was also a movie.

[tenderfoot]

39. So you watch it then?

Thanks for the info.

BTW, this faux outrage and the show will be back up just like GWTW.

[Aristus]

33. Yeah, they tend to gloss over the fact that many key figures in the Old West were

pro-Union Northerners.

Wyatt Earp was from Illinois.

Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid were from New York City.

Ben Thompson was an English immigrant.

On edit: Thompson was an English immigrant, but as a naturalized Texan, he fought for the Confederacy.

[hunter]

50. I have a Southern ancestor.

He got the hell out of the South just before the Civil War got hot and landed in a pacifist community.

It was always a very curious thing to me, suffering through my grade school history lessons, that my family had no Civil War history even though all my ancestors were already here in the U.S.A..

What's this? No Union Army heroes???

Apparently my ancestors didn't come to the U.S.A. for the "opportunities." They just didn't want to die for their religious and political beliefs in Europe or America.

My last immigrant ancestor was a mail order bride to Salt Lake City. She didn't like sharing a husband so she ran off with a handsome monogamous government surveyor and they lived happily ever after on their Wild West homestead.

One of my grandfathers was an Army Air Corp officer in World War II. He thought that a just war by his understanding of Christianity. My other grandfather was a Conscientious Objector by his understanding of Christianity, which was a radical thing. He chose to build and repair Liberty and Victory ships, but he wouldn't touch arms.

My dad, and my wife's dad both served in the military during the Korean War, but it was just the luck of the draw they didn't see active duty in Korea. My dad was a nearsighted Army medical clerk like Radar O'Reilly and my father-in-law was a Navy hospital corpsman assigned to the Marines.

[ThoughtCriminal]

37. Interesting observation

Been watching a lot of old western lately and yes, that is a common trope. Also common - former Union/Confederate rivals cooperate to kill blood-thirsty Mexicans and Indians.

[Voltaire2]

26. good.

It is tone deaf racist

[TristanIsolde]

32. Nooo, not that masterpiece of Television

[LeftInTX]

34. Good! I hate that show!

I always wondered how it landed on TV in the first place, but I blamed Reagan. (Even though according the Wikipedia, it began airing in 1979..when I did not own a TV)

Nevertheless, I still blamed Reagan. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[killaphill]

43. Shows like DOH were popular in the late 70's because of Jimmy Carter.

Since the President was from Georgia, there were lots of Georgia based shows in that era, including DOH and "Carter Country"

[yellowcanine]

42. It's just dumb show with horrible acting. Covered by free speech,though.

I am not in favor of censorship, even for shows with offensive images.

[kcr]

53. Last time I checked Amazon wasn't the government.

They don't have to stream every single television show ever made.

[JonLP24]

54. This isn't a 1st amendment or freedom of speech issue

These streaming services don't have every TV series or film nor do they have to.

[Ilsa]

48. I haven't watched a single episode, ever.

I didn't like the good ole southern boys attitude.

[hunter]

49. Never seen it.

Probably never will.

I was very busy having my own adventures at the time, some of them involving disputes with law enforcement, other involving full frontal nudity and women who ride big motorcycles.