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To date, this is how the very few interactions I've had with Never Trumpers have gone, because I want to talk about the Befor...
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* (I will rarely do a modification to an existing post, but this seemed too sadly appropriate not to add.) This is a graphic-intensive post,...
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Excellent.
The Great Distractor
https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/work/the-great-distractor
//There is an implicit expectation that children’s programming, if it is going to exert such a strong control over the minds of young children, ought at least to be educational. Although hardly alone in this, Teletubbies seemed to violate this principle, despite its spellbinding command. This expectation, which did not arise fully formed at the birth of television, is largely due to Sesame Street, the groundbreaking U.S.-based series and cultural phenomenon which debuted in 1969 and likewise achieved mass popularity in a few short months. (In a 1970 New Yorker cartoon, a policeman approaches a mother and daughter in the park to ask, “Why isn’t that child at home watching ‘Sesame Street’?”)[4]//
The Wholly Unsurprising Story Behind Tinky Winky’s Elevation As A Gay Icon
https://junkee.com/gay-icon-tinky-winky/192924
//The christofascist took one look at Tinky Winky on morning TV and saw the face of Sodom: swaddled in a felted purple fat suit.
A debauched munchkin! he screamed. On our American screens! Beamed straight into the minds of American babes! Oh, foul British import! Oh, how the land of David Bowie covertly extends its dominion of sin!
The evidence for sexual perversion was indisputable. The Teletubby was purple, for one. That antenna stuck on its head was shaped in a triangle – a gay pride symbol. And, as if any more proof needed to be mounted, there was the red purse Tinky Winky was constantly clutching. “A magic bag”, the show’s marketers called it. Full of Satan’s magical sperm, no doubt.//
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