‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Star Rips TV Land for Dropping Show: 'Can’t We All Just Watch TV?’, John Schneider is impacting TV Land for its choice to eradicate from its calendar — due its delineation of the Confederate banner — reruns of The Dukes of Hazzard, the wholesome demonstrate that made the performing artist a youngster icon in the 1980s.
"The Dukes of Hazzard was and is no more a show situated in prejudice than Breaking Bad was a show situated actually," Schneider told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.
Television Land affirmed Wednesday that it pulled the show in the repercussions of the June 17 shooting in Charleston, S.C., executed by Dylann Roof, who was a fanatic of the Confederacy, known in the 19th century for its barrier of subjugation.
Schneider says his residuals from the show "have never been much to keep in touch with home about," however he would like the show to hold on in light of the dated qualities it advances, for example, trustworthiness, strength, valor, insubordination and so forth. The individuals who look to censure the show on the grounds that the celebrated auto it highlighted had a Confederate banner painted on the rooftop are overlooking the main issue, he says.
"I am disheartened that one irate and confused individual can bring about a standout amongst the most dearest network shows in the historical backdrop of the medium to all of a sudden be found in this light," Schneider said Wednesday. "Are individuals who grew up watching the show now abruptly racists? Will they need to experience a detox and a 12-stage project to kick their Dukes propensity? 'Howdy… My name is John. I'm a Dukesoholic.'"
Prior Wednesday, Schneider tweeted a photograph of Roof blazing a U.S. banner while wearing a Gold's Gym shirt. "I am terribly outraged by banner smoldering. In any case, … is the Gold's Gym logo to be viewed as an image of prejudice too now?" he composed.
"I'm joking, obviously, yet has it truly result in these present circumstances?" he said in a meeting with THR. "Go ahead, TV Land, wouldn't we be able to all simply sit in front of the TV?"
A week back, Warner Bros. said it would no more permit models of the Dukes of Hazzard auto, known as the General Lee, unless the licensees stripped the Confederate banner from the auto's rooftop, and Schneider comparably said something regarding that choice.
"Tossing this specific child out with the bathwater appears to be reactionary and excessively PC to me," Schneider told THR a week ago. "In the event that the banner was an image of prejudice, then Bo and Luke and Daisy and Uncle Jesse were a pack of wild racists, and that couldn't possibly be more of
"The Dukes of Hazzard was and is no more a show situated in prejudice than Breaking Bad was a show situated actually," Schneider told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.
Television Land affirmed Wednesday that it pulled the show in the repercussions of the June 17 shooting in Charleston, S.C., executed by Dylann Roof, who was a fanatic of the Confederacy, known in the 19th century for its barrier of subjugation.
Schneider says his residuals from the show "have never been much to keep in touch with home about," however he would like the show to hold on in light of the dated qualities it advances, for example, trustworthiness, strength, valor, insubordination and so forth. The individuals who look to censure the show on the grounds that the celebrated auto it highlighted had a Confederate banner painted on the rooftop are overlooking the main issue, he says.
"I am disheartened that one irate and confused individual can bring about a standout amongst the most dearest network shows in the historical backdrop of the medium to all of a sudden be found in this light," Schneider said Wednesday. "Are individuals who grew up watching the show now abruptly racists? Will they need to experience a detox and a 12-stage project to kick their Dukes propensity? 'Howdy… My name is John. I'm a Dukesoholic.'"
Prior Wednesday, Schneider tweeted a photograph of Roof blazing a U.S. banner while wearing a Gold's Gym shirt. "I am terribly outraged by banner smoldering. In any case, … is the Gold's Gym logo to be viewed as an image of prejudice too now?" he composed.
"I'm joking, obviously, yet has it truly result in these present circumstances?" he said in a meeting with THR. "Go ahead, TV Land, wouldn't we be able to all simply sit in front of the TV?"
A week back, Warner Bros. said it would no more permit models of the Dukes of Hazzard auto, known as the General Lee, unless the licensees stripped the Confederate banner from the auto's rooftop, and Schneider comparably said something regarding that choice.
"Tossing this specific child out with the bathwater appears to be reactionary and excessively PC to me," Schneider told THR a week ago. "In the event that the banner was an image of prejudice, then Bo and Luke and Daisy and Uncle Jesse were a pack of wild racists, and that couldn't possibly be more of
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