Posted on 08/04/2020 8:04:52 PM PDT by Borges
It's come to this: Kindergarten Cop, a banal 1990 comedy-action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a police detective who masquerades as a teacher, has been canceled and likened to the explicitly racist silent film Birth of a Nation.
Kindergarten Cop was slated to kick off Portland's Northwest Film Center's Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater on August 6 until critics led by local author Lois Leveen said the PG-13 movie promoted a "school-to-prison pipeline," according to the Willamette Week.
In an email to Willamette Week, Leveen likened the Schwarzenegger vehicle to Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind:
It's true Kindergarten Cop is only a movie. So are Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind, but we recognize films like those are not 'good family fun.'…They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions. Because despite what the movie shows…in reality, schools don't transform cops. Cops transform schools, and in an extremely detrimental way.
The Northwest Film Center wouldn't tell the Willamette Week's Matthew Singer "how much influence Leveen's comments had on its decision, but the organization did respond to her tweets directly in announcing the cancellation." Kindergarten Cop has been replaced by a second showing of John Lewis: Good Trouble, a documentary about the recently deceased congressman and civil rights leader. Other films in the series include Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Xanadu, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and The Shining.
Sad thing is, Arnold would probably agree nowadays.
Whatever. Ahnold’s not a conservative, and can take the loss.
It’s naht a tumor!
Good call, :22.
That’s not the point here. It’s the willingness to capitulate to these people over things like this.
Too funny. I just watched that movie on Saturday night. I noted when I watched it that the kids were saying The Pledge of Allegiance and paid homage to Abraham Lincoln. I liked it.
Others here on this thread share my opinion.
I do understand the point, thank you for singling me out.
The ball is rolling, I don’t give an obama about Hollywood.
These people have lost their last connection to reality.
Sadly, those in positions authority see them as the brilliant
minds who “truly get it these days”. Ah no, they get
absolutely nothing right.
Kindergarten Cop = Bad
Birth of a Marxist Nation = Great!
There has to be an ameba out there eating human brain cells.
I am totally confused. What is the reasoning here?
It’s not just about Hollywood. It’s about everything.
Cancel culture, defund the police, so don’t show positive or funny police shows/movies.
Kick out God and watch what amazing things happen to society (and not for the better).
Yes.
Proof that those SJW’s have no sense of humor.
What's so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline? Kindergarten Cop-Out: Tell @nwfilmcenter there’s nothing fun in cops traumatizing kids. National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive Kindergarten Cop. IRL, we are trying to end school-to-prison pipeline.— Lois Leveen (@LoisLeveen) August 1, 2020
5- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country. And this criminalizing of children increases dramatically when cops are assigned to work in schools. https://t.co/WCjA3RKKT6https://t.co/iEBjyq71IK— Lois Leveen (@LoisLeveen) August 1, 2020
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you are really reaching here....I mean REALLY REACHING!!!!!! But do you.....lol@cspropane— Tha Product (est. 1977) (@Wildcat4Life2K1) August 4, 2020
Agreed
Time to kick out Satan
“These people have lost their last connection to reality.”
IMO, that’s like calling the Fraud incompetent.
They understand it’s a war, and engage in propaganda to reshape thinking.
Look how it’s now ok to loot and burn, with them and Big Media, if you agree with and support the “right” people and “philosophies”.
Then ban the DNC and anyone associated with for:
Slavery
The Civil War
The KKK
Jim Crow laws
Anti Civil Rights stance.
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