the utter indecency
those penguins should just worship penguin waifus instead, like a normal penguin!
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National Review: Gay Marriage in Arthur Pushes the Limits of Social Realism in Children’s TV
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those penguins should just worship penguin waifus instead, like a normal penguin!
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I mean National Review was founded by a bigot (William Buckley) who, was revealed by Gore Vidal... before some people get all upset, yes, Vidal called him a crypto Nazi, but then Buckley said "Now listen you queer stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in you goddamn face and you'll stay plastered."
Gore Vidal was bisexual, did not identify as gay but had a same sex partner for 50 some years, and it wasn't a secret.
Gore Vidal was bisexual, did not identify as gay but had a same sex partner for 50 some years, and it wasn't a secret.
the last 70 years of television have caused conservatives to throw a fit
the national review became an irrelevant laughing stock the minute trump swept aside the entire republican primary field and the paleocons became de-anathemized, this is them grasping at relevance by trying to pander to that set
I think quite a few of us remember when The Simpsons started when we were kids and there was an outrage because Bart was a hellion and it was a cartoon where characters regularly swore and one even said "genitalia". The outrage lasted a few years until they found their next target.
First off
>The national review
Secondly:
IE; A majority of Americans do not object to homosexual marriage, is what this part is saying.
>The national review
Secondly:
IE; A majority of Americans do not object to homosexual marriage, is what this part is saying.
The thought that children may get the idea that it's OK for two people to love each other openly and get married......SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Looks like the author and Republicans in general never learned this from PBS.
Arthur is getting attention probably because a lot of these bigots remember it airing when they were younger, "the good ole days". Arthur having this is something they remember being turned into , "MUH LIBRAL AGENDA".
I wish I could see the way that kids react to something like this, without their parents skewing their view one way or another. Do they notice it at all? Do they think of it the same as every other wedding? Do they notice that it's same gender and then just accept that as a normal thing and move on? Does it stand out to them as abnormal?
I have no idea how this could be accurately measured, but I'd love to see a dive into how kids think about stuff like this.
I have no idea how this could be accurately measured, but I'd love to see a dive into how kids think about stuff like this.
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Right the same people would be pissed if they removed the racist garbage in Tom And Jerry cartoons or Popeye
is the actually color of their skin different or just their fur color? this is an important distinction to know whether their union should be despised or not
its like my pappy used to say
"her skin better be your twin, if its just different fur then you can be with her"
Preserving an arbitrary, illogical, and damaging hierarchy not for any moral reason, but simply because disagreement exists and therefore must be defended.
It would be almost impressive in its inhumane, abstract conservativism if it wasn't horseshit. This is nothing but an effort to make an acceptable space for bigotry to continue unchallenged.
His Twitter profile description says it all, really.
It's just religious projection under the illusion of a large enough population objecting to it.
It's just religious projection under the illusion of a large enough population objecting to it.
The National Review was created as the less fringy right-wing thought leader. They were anti-Jewish conspiracy, but pro Jim Crow.
Now they're out of the mainstream thought with Conservative voters, because the voters don't want country club economics, they just wanna engage in culture wars. In fact, they don't much mind hand-outs, for people that look like them.
Same as it ever was.
Now they're out of the mainstream thought with Conservative voters, because the voters don't want country club economics, they just wanna engage in culture wars. In fact, they don't much mind hand-outs, for people that look like them.
Same as it ever was.
he's arguing for the right of the minority here, but if the tables were turned i have little doubt he would be sitting with the majority and using that as an excuse to overpower the minority opinion
It's National Review. Over the years, they've had a few good writers (as well as lots of bad ones), but they've never been "with it" or anything more than moderately conservative on social issues. Think old time country club Republican and that's what you can expect from them. It would be news if they published an opinion piece supporting the Arthur episode, but this is just business as usual.
does anybody else think kids are just too stupid to comprehend two adults of the same sex getting married?
You rushed here to post an article from a site you know nothing about? And then say that you will never visit the site again? Why do this? Why not ignore it instead of subjecting us to it? I don't understand people who stumble across something negative (and stupid) and then won't rest until everyone else has to know about it.
National Review is a pretty well-known magazine that pride themselves on being the "intellectual" side of conservatism. But if you read their articles (or comment section if you dare) you'll see that it's no different from every other right wing site.
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I am not going ignore this shit some of you really dont get it do you?You can ignore it all you want hell ignore me I dont care but I am not going to do it.
I mean, gay people exist and get married. That's been a nationwide thing since 2015, even in Alabama.
You don't have to like it or approve of it, but then you're just an asshole.
You don't have to like it or approve of it, but then you're just an asshole.
Teaching children that gay people exist, get married, and should be treated like every other human being on the planet is somehow bad.
I'd love to see Sesame Street have an episode about gay and lesbian couples.
EDIT: Oh, it's some conservative think piece site? I should've known better.
I'd love to see Sesame Street have an episode about gay and lesbian couples.
EDIT: Oh, it's some conservative think piece site? I should've known better.
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Well I mean, you should. Reading National Review articles is not going to enrich your life, my life, or the lives of anyone here. There is nothing to learn, nothing to gain. No one, and I mean no one, is better off knowing what some 20-something year old thinks about a gay rat wedding from a cartoon aimed at children. Spend your time doing literally anything else except poisoning your brain with this garbage.
1. CPB only funds about 15% of PBS. Most of the money is used to subsidize local broadcast stations, i.e. Alabama receiving government subsidies to even have a broadcast tower.
2. Arthur is a production of WGBH Boston. I'm pretty sure most of Massachusetts is ok with gay marriage. That is who funds Arthur.
3. The US government provides larger subsidies to private sector companies than they provide to public broadcasting. If we're going to merit test where we give government dollars maybe lets start with the multi-billion dollar freeloaders allowed to use government lands and resources while taking government tax breaks and R&D subsidies (for tech they'll exclusively own) over a few bucks going to a station that might air a kids show including a fictional gay rat getting married.
2. Arthur is a production of WGBH Boston. I'm pretty sure most of Massachusetts is ok with gay marriage. That is who funds Arthur.
3. The US government provides larger subsidies to private sector companies than they provide to public broadcasting. If we're going to merit test where we give government dollars maybe lets start with the multi-billion dollar freeloaders allowed to use government lands and resources while taking government tax breaks and R&D subsidies (for tech they'll exclusively own) over a few bucks going to a station that might air a kids show including a fictional gay rat getting married.