Angry over diversity in children's show, NRA TV depicts 'Thomas & Friends' in KKK hoods
Using a jarring image to blast increased diversity on a children's TV show, a National Rifle Association online show depicted characters from "Thomas & Friends" in white, Ku Klux Klan-style hoods on burning train tracks.
Host of NRA TV's "Relentless," Dana Loesch went after the classic children's character Thomas The Tank Engine after its maker, Mattel, joined forces with the United Nations in efforts to increase gender diversity and representation on the program and include new characters from around the globe.
"That's where it gets really strange to me," Loesch says on Friday's episode. "Am I to understand this entire time that Thomas and his trains were white? Because they all have gray faces. How do you bring ethnic diversity? I mean they had to paint what I guess they thought was some sort of African pattern on the side of Nia's engine."
The program cut to an image with three trains wearing white hoods and tracks on fire. "Fair, I get it," Loesch sarcastically says. "Thomas the Tank Engine has been a blight on race relations for far too long. Clearly this is overdue."
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Tone deaf, stupid and just downright evil. WTF does diversity and Thomas the Tank Engine have to do with gun rights and gun safety? This shouldn't even be on the NRA's radar screen. Assholes.
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)Why should gun rights have anything to do with racism? Outrageous, even by NRA standards, and shows they are about a no longer hidden agenda that goes far beyond gun ownership issues.
Any decent, law abiding NRA owners who just thought this group wants to protect their right to bear arms such as hunting rifles or self defense weapons should cancel their memberships and be sure to tell the NRA why.
DBoon
(22,370 posts)The NRA is now an armed fascist militia, that launders Russian money into the GOP
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)raging moderate
(4,306 posts)Every time these resentful racists open their mouths, my face gets a little greyer. Also my hair.
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Bettie
(16,111 posts)there have always been trains with female names, always. Emily, Molly, Rosie...seriously, WTF is wrong with this woman and the people who enable her. THEY ARE anthropomorphic trains and they bring joy to little kids!
I was sad when I packed the last of the trains away, because my youngest has outgrown them. Thomas and Friends teaches kindness, tolerance, and responsibility to young kids. It encourages imagination...the toys (we have the wooden ones) encourage creativity and playing without electronics.
I am stunned that this horrible woman has decided this is her "cause" of the week. Is she really that fucking stupid and racist? Is a train from Africa so awful to her?