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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">related to education, which is info in school</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">but culture war eruption hysteria eg gay teletubbies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see moral panic</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see pink pill</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha this kinda harkens back to cold war red scare blacklist commies tiring to brainwash, kids most vulnerable ; urban legend grounded in fear (of some new thing?)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hype fear anger emotion note pedophile was red pill entry drug for women into Qanon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dr suess, mr potatohead, smurfs commie; sesame str?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 521</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">n</font><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/newsmax-host-loses-it-over-lucky-charms-gay-leprechaun-and-kellogs-forcing-kids-to-be-confused-about-their-gender/" aria-label="Newsmax host loses it over Lucky Charms 'gay leprechaun' and Kellogg’s 'forcing kids to be confused about their gender'" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 25px;">ewsmax host loses it over Lucky Charms 'gay leprechaun' and Kellogg’s 'forcing kids to be confused about their gender'</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/david-badash" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">David Badash</a> <a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/the-new-civil-rights-movement" data-type="text" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Civil Rights Movement</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><div class="social-date" style="margin-top: 8px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <span class="social-datetext" style="top: 3px; position: relative; line-height: 1; left: -3px;">May 26, 2021</span></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2653114176" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; display: -webkit-box; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield had a homophobic Tuesday night freak out over kids' breakfast cereals.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After being strongly criticized two weeks ago for disgusting antisemitic remarks, Stinchfield is back to....</font></p></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 252px;"><div class="thumbcaption"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A Center for Consumer Freedom<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_ad" title="Print ad" class="mw-redirect">print ad</a> which criticizes the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETA" title="PETA" class="mw-redirect">PETA</a>President's statement opposing animal research to cure AIDS, terming it an "extremist agenda."</font></div></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group defines its mission as fighting against "a growing cabal of food cops, health care enforcers, militant activists, meddling bureaucrats, and violent radicals who think they know what's best for you, [who] are pushing against our basic freedoms."<sup id="cite_ref-CF_7-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-CF-7">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The CCF has argued against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban" title="Smoking ban">smoking bans</a> and for keeping the legal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-alcohol_level" title="Blood-alcohol level" class="mw-redirect">blood-alcohol level</a> for drivers at 0.10. It questions the dangers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat" title="Red meat">red meat</a> consumption and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticides" title="Pesticides" class="mw-redirect">pesticides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-9">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-10">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-11">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-12">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a 1999 interview with the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Leader" title="Chain Leader">Chain Leader</a>,</i> a trade publication for restaurant chains, Berman said his organization attacks activists more aggressively than other lobbyists. "We always have a knife in our teeth," he said. Claiming that activists "drive consumer behavior on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat" title="Meat">meat</a>, alcohol, fat, sugar, tobacco and caffeine," his strategy is "to shoot the messenger... We've got to attack their credibility as spokespersons."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-13">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2002 CCF spokesman John Doyle described nationwide radio ads put out by the group as efforts to attract people to their website and</font><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> "draw attention to our enemies: just about every consumer and environmental group, chef, legislator or doctor who raises objections to things like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide" title="Pesticide">pesticide</a> use, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">genetic engineering</a> of crops or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic" title="Antibiotic" class="mw-redirect">antibiotic</a>use in beef and poultry."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-14">[15]</a></sup></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CCF gives out annual "Tarnished Halo" awards to so-called "animal-rights zealots, celebrity busybodies, environmental scaremongers, self-appointed "public interest" advocates, trial lawyers, and other food activists",<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-15">[16]</a></sup> and its Guest Choice Network affiliate gives out the "Nanny Awards" to "food cops, anti-biotech activists, vegetarian scolds and meddling bureaucrats".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-16">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-17">[18]</a></sup></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The CCF had posted a number of videos to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">YouTube</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> until June, 2010, when its 'consumerfreedom' account was suspended for undisclosed Terms of Service violations.</span><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-18">[19]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It posted the trailer for the <b>children's movie <i>Charlotte's Web,</i></b> claiming that the movie "encourages kids to 'say no to bacon' and print out stickers reading 'Tofu Rulez'" and <b>links to groups it states are "extremist," such as the </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Society_of_the_United_States" title="Humane Society of the United States"><b>Humane Society</b> of the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-19">[20]</a></sup></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The CCF criticizes statistics used by nutrition groups to describe a global "obesity epidemic," and in 2005, it filed a series of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_%28United_States%29" title="Freedom of Information Act (United States)">Freedom of Information Act</a> requests against the U.S. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention" title="Centers for Disease Control and Prevention">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> in response to a CDC study claiming that 400,000 Americans die each year as a consequence of being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obese" title="Obese" class="mw-redirect">obese</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-20">[21]</a></sup> After the CCF campaign CDC reduced its estimates to 112,000 annual deaths, leading the CCF to advertise widely that it had discredited the study</font><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.<sup id="cite_ref-Mayer_1-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom#cite_note-Mayer-1">[2]</a></sup></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">suess uber1:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/6950F840-FB80-FCB0-D505-8AB1FA685F08#-1034">
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</font></div><div><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/23/is_the_lorax_propaganda_lou_dobbs_thinks_so_and_so_did_dr_seuss.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/02/23/is_the_lorax_propaganda_lou_dobbs_thinks_so_and_so_did_dr_seuss.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hollywood is once again trying to indoctrinate our children.” So intones Lou Dobbs in the clip below from his show on the Fox Business Network, flagged by the Observer and other publications.</b> Possibly alluding to the roundly mocked discussion of the Muppets back in December—which prompted Kermit and, especially, Miss Piggy to punch back at Fox News last month—Dobbs then lumps The Secret World of Arietty and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Lorax together as two new films that are “plainly demonizing the so-called 1 percent and espousing the virtue of green energy policies, come what may.”</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Haglund is the literary editor of NewYorker.com. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dobbs’s attempt to smear The Secret World of Arietty with this brush seems frankly bizarre. The movie, produced in 2010 (well before Occupy Wall Street began) by Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, based in Japan, adapts a British series of books for children, first published in the 1950s, called The Borrowers. In my faint memory, these books—about a family of miniature people who borrow what they need from “human beans”—owe more to the tradition of fairy literature than to socialist ideology. </span>They were written by Mary Norton; according to the Guardian, “Dobbs’s attack appears to mark the first occasion upon which her stories ... have been read allegorically as a socialist polemic espousing redistribution of wealth.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Lorax, on the other hand, has a more complicated political history. Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, wrote the book explicitly as a warning about excessive industrialization.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> This sparked controversy; as Daniel Horgan wrote in USA Today a few years ago, the book “was banned in a California school district,” and “several timber industry groups underwrote a book called The Truax with a pro-tree-cutting hero.” Truax is a logger, and his antagonist in the book (which you can read online) is Guardbark, an ugly woodland monster and rabid, unreasonable environmentalist.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Lorax himself can be read as an unreasonable environmentalist: Emma Marris, writing on the book’s 40th anniversary in Nature last year, called the Lorax a “parody of a misanthropic ecologist” and praised Seuss for conveying “the limits of gloom and doom” when it comes to preaching the environmentalist cause. Like Dobbs, Marris expressed uncertainty that it was a good book for children—though for very different reasons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dr. Seuss’s book, unlike The Truax, was not underwritten by anyone; his book has a strong political message, but it was his own. With Hollywood’s version, though, things aren’t quite that simple. The movie is “an integral part of a public service campaign with the Forest Service and the Ad Council,” according to the blog of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (The Forest Service is a part of that department; the Ad Council is a nonprofit.) “The two agencies have worked together since 2009,” the blog says, “on a public service campaign designed to inspire children and their families to unplug and reconnect with nature.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So wondering about the connection between the government and The Lorax is not an entirely ridiculous thing to do—though Dobbs, of course, makes it look like one. (What this story really needs is Glenn Beck—he could have a field day on that chalkboard of his. Recall that Dr. Seuss once told an interviewer that he was “subversive as hell,” and that The Cat in the Hat was “revolutionary in that it goes as far as Kerensky, and then stops. It doesn’t go quite as far as Lenin.”)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s fun to tease Fox News for being so crude in its HUAC-style crusading against such milquetoast fare as The Lorax. But stories for children typically do have messages, and those messages are frequently political. They may even be described as partisan, in so far as today’s Republican Party has staked out positions—such as a general hostility to environmentalism—at odds with those held by many authors of children’s literature. And there’s nothing wrong with this: I’m glad that such authors are teaching kids about the importance of conservationism (once upon a time, a Republican cause, of course), and I’m perfectly happy to see Hollywood bringing those lessons to the big screen. I’m even happy to see a department of the U.S. government seize on the chance to drive such a lesson home and encourage parents to take their kids to the national parks, which are beautiful and which we should, as a nation, invest in.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But as silly and ham-handed as Lou Dobbs may look pointing (some of) this out, that is, in fact, what’s happening here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Seuss compared The Cat in the Hat to Kerensky-style leftism, he may have been exaggerating. But when he called The Lorax “propaganda,” he wasn’t wrong. Seuss had once been a political cartoonist, drawing pro-U.S. (and anti-Japanese) editorial cartoons during W.W. II. The man knew how to get a political message across with his drawings. And sometimes, that was precisely his intention.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div>