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* ''The Satanic Verses'' by [[Salman Rushdie]] is recalled more for the ensuing fatwa declared on the author by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and for the fallout from that incident, than for the novel itself.
* The ''Uncle Remus'' stories are a group of actual fables told by slaves and former slaves in the American South, making them a valuable cultural resource. However, though once popular, they are now nearly unknown. Compiler and editor Joel Chandler Harris' fictional character who tells the stories, Uncle Remus, was written as an elderly ex-slave who was basically content to continue to work for a white family. The implied racism is now almost all that is known of the stories. The fables themselves, taken out of the Remus context, are stories about animals using their wiles to trick each other, and man, in order to survive. Unlike Aesop's fables, they are not meant to be morally instructive, but are a commentary on man resorting to animal-like behaviors in desperate circumstances.
* ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]'' had an ongoing controversy that the publication of this book inspired over slavery, particularly in the years leading up to the [[American Civil War]]. However, few people have actually read the book. At the time of release, the
== Live-Action TV ==
* Most people associate ''[[Toddlers and Tiaras]]'' with the arguably [[wikipedia:Child beauty pageant#Criticism|exploitative and creepy nature]] of child beauty pageants (said controversies have led France to [[Banned in China|ban]] beauty contests for minors under 13). The episode where one child contestant was made to dress up like [[Julia Roberts]]' [[Squick|prostitute]] character in ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' unsurprisingly courted controversy, and so does the case of one stage mum making her young daughter's chest resemble that of [[Dolly Parton]] and another mother asking her daughter to smoke fake cigarettes on stage.
** One notable contestant was Alana Thompson, who went under the stage name Honey Boo Boo and eventually was the subject of the [[Reality Show]] ''[[Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo]]''. On top of what amounts to abusive practices on part of her mother such as feeding her with "Go-Go Juice" – an [[Gargle Blaster|unhealthy cocktail
* In general, reality shows don't have that much love in recent years due to what is perceived as pretentious and unnecessarily melodramatic either for publicity or ratings. While the events of these shows are presented as "reality", in practice these are rehearsed and in some cases fabricated especially when the situation is deemed too mundane to pass muster on TV. Case in point ''[[Pimp My Ride]]'', where controversies and issues with the contestants and their cars were made apparent years after the show's cancellation–cars were deliberately made worse than they actually were prior to their makeovers, elements from the "pimped" cars removed after being handed over, and contestants' reactions were faked and rehearsed. A 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan (which actually stood in for a Plymouth Grand Voyager Expresso the GAS crew deemed to be non-road worthy) which was pimped in an episode was later found in a state of disrepair and purchased for just $850 by a YouTuber.
* Tabloid talk shows such as ''[[Jerry Springer]]'' and ''[[Maury]]'' are cited by television and social critics as an [[Egregious]] example of low-brow, bottom-of-the-barrel "entertainment" meant to exploit on disadvantaged individuals and/or families, or a form of "human bear-baiting" as what some call it. ''[[The Jeremy Kyle Show]]'' for one prompted immense backlash especially when one of the show's participants, a 63-year-old named Steve Dymond, was found dead in an apparent [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]], likely due to immense grief following a polygraph test in an effort to prove his infidelity. Mounting pressure from British MPs and organisations forced [[ITV]] to cancel the show and [[Old Shame|purge all traces]] of the show from their social media accounts and their web site.
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