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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:37 PM
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First Tinky-Winky, then Spongebob, now Spot???
Yep! Another Threat To The American Family! And that "PC" puppy might be responsible for the Columbine shootings, too!

Although the person who posted the following to Amazon isn't well-known enough to merit a listing on Top Ten Conservative Idiots, well, read it for yourself (emphasis added):

Social engineering with liberal politically correct subtext, February 7, 2001

Reviewer: "flickjunkie" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This full-length release is Disney's attempt at "updating and improving" Spot. Its real intent is to exploit Spot's popularity to insert a liberal socialization agenda. There is a conscious attempt by the producers to make Spot more like Sesame Street in that it explicitly and implicitly teaches children politically correct lessons. The video is made up of 13 short stories featuring Spot and his friends. After each story, there is a segment where children play various instructive games prompted by a narrator. They are very careful to make sure that at least half the children are minorities.

There is a shift in emphasis towards learning through social interaction instead of from parents, which was the predominant theme in the older Spot videos. The parental roles have changed from teacher and disciplinarian to that of supporter and enabler. Parents are seen as an audience for Spot's various games where they look on and clap enthusiastically. They never disapprove of Spot's childish behavior as they did in previous videos. Most of the lessons Spot learns are now from his friends as he conforms to their behavior.


(...)

I rated this video a 3/10. My principal objection is the politically correct subtext. The parental role has been trivialized in favor of social conformity and group behavior. I feel that the older Spot videos were more constructive, emphasizing proper family values and dynamics, showing the parents as supportive but setting clear boundaries. The message here is that the parents' role is to make the child happy, and that most of life's important lessons come from peers. This reduces the parents to just another one of the child's pals, like Columbine killer Dylan Klebold and his dad, who described Dylan as his "best friend". My recommendation is to purchase Spot videos produced in the early 90's before Disney started its attempts at using Spot for social engineering.

Read the whole "essay" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00015YVGS/qid%3D1109040733/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-1876501-3011844

:crazy:

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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:37 PM
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1. are you shitting me??!
Dear gawd.
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:39 PM
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2. Don't forget Shrek
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:43 PM
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4. Well you know Donkey's obviously a Liberal Democrat
Edited on Mon Feb-21-05 10:45 PM by LittleClarkie
and then there's that interspecies thing between him and the Dragon. Not to mention how tarted up she was, all lipstick and sticking her tail in the camera during that hiphop song.

Utterly disgusting, really. (/sam.eagle)
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 11:37 PM
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9. LOL! Another reason why I'm a LittleClarkie fan.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:14 AM
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10. Cool icon, elshiva...
I remember the story that, according to the painter, inspired it: during WWII, a woman in Poland had Nazi soldiers come to her door, demanding to know if there were any Jews in the house. She simply pointed to the icon of Mary and Jesus hanging on her wall. "Yes, there they are."

:spank:

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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 10:25 PM
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13. Thank you! Yes, it's by Robert Lentz.
This is a picture of two Jews.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:43 PM
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3. Bet "flickjunkie" is a member of "Fuckus witchur Family", too.
Maybe he'd be more content with "Superbook", the anime Old Testament cartoon. Lots of guts and gore and the warm, fuzzy angry vengeful GAWD...
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:44 PM
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5. I prefer Veggie Tales myself
Edited on Mon Feb-21-05 10:46 PM by LittleClarkie
though I've long suspected something between Larry and Bob.

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LisaLynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:49 PM
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6. Flickjunkie, darling ...
if we were that organized and focused, * wouldn't have been able to steal the last two elections!
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:50 PM
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7. He still gave it 2 stars
after all that rant you would expect 1 star.
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Rapcw Donating Member (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-05 10:53 PM
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8. I always liked that show when I was a kid. n/t
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:27 AM
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11. Popeye, Bluto, and Wimpy........they're next!
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-05 12:47 AM
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12. No wonder * is trying to seperate himself from these fools
They make him look like a complete joke. My only hope is that they will be staying home in 2006 and 2008.
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