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Thomas the Tank Engine had to shut the hell up to save children everywhere (Racist train!)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/22/thomas-the-tank-engine-children-parents ^

Posted on 07/23/2014 4:33:53 PM PDT by TigerClaws

There are many terrible children's programs through which parents must suffer during their child's young life. For every Sesame Street, there is an annoying Caillou or an acid-trippy Yo Gabba Gabba. But Thomas and Friends is – or was – the one show with enough subversive messages to make me turn it off for good.

My son, now three-and-a-half years old, thankfully never never went through a manic train fascination like so many other children. But once in a while, he'd get a bug in his brain to watch Thomas, and every time I sat and watched with him, I winced and groaned almost as much as Percy.

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On the show black smoke is bad. Therefore, THOMAS THE TRAIN is racist.

I guess it was a 'micro-aggression'?

1 posted on 07/23/2014 4:33:53 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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thankfully never never went through a manic train fascination

Lionel hating ass of a parent

2 posted on 07/23/2014 4:37:36 PM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: TigerClaws

Tracey’s gone off the rails on a Crazy Train.


3 posted on 07/23/2014 4:38:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revelation 911

lol


4 posted on 07/23/2014 4:40:29 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: TigerClaws
My 5-year old is absolutely hooked on Thomas and Friends and has been since he was born. He knows the name of every engine. I buy him those "Trackmaster" sets that run off the AA battery. Turns out there are quite a few and some of them are collectable (and thus expensive).

I need to learn how to fix those little engines. He's probably got a dozen that have gone to the great train graveyard.

Funny, he's actually taught me a few things about trains. I always thought the car that carried people would've been called a "passenger car". My then 4-year old son corrected me that it is actually called a "coach".

Anyways, I love that racist Thomas and his racist friends, even if that famous racist and homophobe Alec Baldwin drops in from time to time.

5 posted on 07/23/2014 4:41:30 PM PDT by Drew68
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Well guess what? It's not OK. You think a little boy watching Thomas is going to file away the lesson that pink is OK for boys? No, what kids remember is that James was laughed at, cruelly, over and over again, because he looked different and was clad in a "girly" pink color.

Good lesson for a boy to learn. Could save him a beating at school.

6 posted on 07/23/2014 4:41:42 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!")
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To: TigerClaws

satire or just the full scope of Guardianista leftist insanity.


7 posted on 07/23/2014 4:42:13 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Hugin

bump


8 posted on 07/23/2014 4:42:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: TigerClaws

Meanwhile this sensitive liberal soccer mom no doubt excuses the Muslim murder of Christians as a cultural difference.


9 posted on 07/23/2014 4:43:43 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: TigerClaws

Thomas’ highest goal was to be “a Very Useful Engine.”

This essay was written by a man who aspires to be a very useful idiot.


10 posted on 07/23/2014 4:44:41 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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And oddly enough we;

Drive on the Parkway and park in the driveway.

Cargo travels on a ship or airplane while shipments travel by land.


11 posted on 07/23/2014 4:45:39 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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Maybe they could fix the tracks, so to speak, by having Pink Thomas take a fun side-trip to a park bathroom while wearing fairy wings and sucking on a pacifier.

Or maybe a highway rest stop..?


12 posted on 07/23/2014 4:47:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: TigerClaws

Thomas was one of the shows I enjoyed watching with my kids. What is this bird brain whining about? Has the show gone PC over the years or something?


13 posted on 07/23/2014 4:47:57 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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What is this bird brain whining about? Has the show gone PC over the years or something?

I think she's whining about the fact that it hasn't.

14 posted on 07/23/2014 4:49:21 PM PDT by Drew68
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God help this woman’s son.

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15 posted on 07/23/2014 4:49:48 PM PDT by Mears
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You know what one is pretty good “Curious George”. I never really like that Thomas the Tank Engine, there was always something creepy about it.

And the “Cat in the Hat” is OK.

And the song from “Dinosaur Train” is great.

Can you tell I have a wee grandchild now?


16 posted on 07/23/2014 5:00:50 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: TigerClaws

There certainly are some strange birds out there.


17 posted on 07/23/2014 5:02:51 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jocon307

The creepiest things EVER were the Teletubbies.

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18 posted on 07/23/2014 5:03:18 PM PDT by Mears
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To: TigerClaws

Thomas had Pierce Brosnan, Ringo Starr AND George Carlin on the show.


19 posted on 07/23/2014 5:07:27 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: TigerClaws

I sat through a lot of these myself as my boy was a huge fan (this was back when the Thomas shows came on VHS). There is, I found, both charm and integrity in this series.

I thought of writing a “How Not To” management book -

“Confusion and Delay: Autobiography of Sir Topham Hatt”

Not too many of the target audience would get the reference though.


20 posted on 07/23/2014 5:08:41 PM PDT by buwaya
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