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Kindergarten Cop Is Canceled, Likened to Birth of a Nation
Reason ^ | 8/4/2020 | NICK GILLESPIE

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 Kindergarten Cop has been replaced by a second showing of John Lewis: Good Trouble, a documentary about the recently deceased congressman and civil rights leader.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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: belongsinbloggers; birthofanation; blm; bloggers; cancelculture; kindergartencop; loisleveen; northwestfilmcenter; nwfilmcenter; obama; oregeon; police; portland; schoolprisonpipeline; schools; schwarzenegger
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To: the OlLine Rebel
It's probably a gender issue with what this kid said.


41 posted on 08/04/2020 8:34:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: dfwgator

And Ah-nold cancelled the GOP in Cullyfornia, making it safe completely for the Nazi Demonrat Party.


42 posted on 08/04/2020 8:35:27 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: dfwgator

So, there you are! That’s ‘proof’ the two are intertwined!//


43 posted on 08/04/2020 8:36:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Apparently it’s an actual phrase they use:

Obama directive easing school discipline for minority students fueling classroom chaos
The Washington Times ^ | March 21, 2018 | Valerie Richardson

“Evidence is mounting that efforts to fight the school-to-prison pipeline is creating a school climate catastrophe and has if anything put at-risk students at greater risk,” said Mr. Eden at a Dec. 8 hearing of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3641505/posts


44 posted on 08/04/2020 8:37:35 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Borges

I’ve only seen that movie a million times. In no way doesn’t promote a, “school to prison pipeline”.

At first, I thought this was going to be about, “boys have a penis and girls have a vagina”.


45 posted on 08/04/2020 8:43:36 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: DoughtyOne

No; this is spiritual.

Amoebic encephalitis is quite fatal, BTW, and does not change one’s political views.


46 posted on 08/04/2020 8:45:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Borges

Say what you want about Arnold. Sucked as a politician, but he revolutionized the action movie genre. T2 alone is the greatest sequel and sci-fi movie ever.


47 posted on 08/04/2020 8:47:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: Rastus
Truthfully, I thought the abortion subplot was done very honestly. Of course I wish Stacy chose life, but it wasn't like the character saw abortion as a panacea. Indeed, she was pretty depressed afterwards, when Brad surprised her and drove her back. If anything, I viewed the abortion as a turning point in Stacy's life (she certainly didn't become a tramp like Linda) and a mildly pivotal moment for Damone. All-in-all, I doubt any kid saw Fast Times and came away with a war, and fuzzy feeling about abortion.

While were at it, why aren't the Wokey folks all busted up over the Phoebe Cates' legendary nude scene or Jennifer Jason Leigh's nudity? I guess objectification of women is lower on the woke pecking order than racism, though Spicoli did get away with trashing Jefferson's car.

48 posted on 08/04/2020 8:49:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^s)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

LOL.... no doubt.


49 posted on 08/04/2020 8:55:41 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Remember Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.)
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To: conservative98

“... “school-to-prison” pipeline in which African American, Latinx, and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated.”


Well, maybe it’s because the African American, Latinx, and other kids of color, are actually committing crimes while at school. Should these crimes like assault, robbery, rape, etc. be ignored just because they happen at school instead of on the street? Or should they (and this is the real reason) be ignored because it’s ‘children of color’ who are committing them?


50 posted on 08/04/2020 8:56:23 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: dfwgator
Austria's three greatest accomplishments were:
1. Convince the world that Beethoven was from Austria.
2. Convince the world that Hitler was from Germany.
3. Convince Ahhhnold to leave.
51 posted on 08/04/2020 8:56:33 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after az><n election.)
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To: Borges

It’s not a T0OMA.


52 posted on 08/04/2020 9:08:32 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: Borges

This is beyond stupid.


53 posted on 08/04/2020 9:19:14 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: Borges

It’s not a rumor!!!


54 posted on 08/04/2020 9:19:26 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: conservative98

5 year-olds “routinely hauled off to prison?”

What world is she living in?


55 posted on 08/04/2020 9:21:00 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: DoughtyOne

There has to be an ameba out there eating human brain cells.


Social and establishment media?


56 posted on 08/04/2020 9:23:07 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: DoughtyOne; null and void

>>There has to be an ameba out there eating human brain cells.

It’s a psychedelic fungus that infects their sex organs and anal region and turns them into zombies.

Return of the zombie cicadas: WVU team unearths manipulative qualities of fungal-infected flyers
WVUToday ^ | July 27, 2020 | Staff
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3871129/posts

These actions persist amid a disturbing display of B-horror movie proportions: Massospora spores gnaw away at a cicada’s genitals, butt and abdomen, replacing them with fungal spores. Then they “wear away like an eraser on a pencil,” Lovett said.


57 posted on 08/04/2020 9:23:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Deaf Smith

It’s much simpler to banish anyone who REMEMBERS or RECALLS these truths about Democrats simply to “The Cornfield” / TwilightZone


58 posted on 08/04/2020 9:24:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: miserare

SJWAZIS


59 posted on 08/04/2020 9:24:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Borges

I’ll be brief: Leveen is full of shit.


60 posted on 08/04/2020 9:26:44 PM PDT by healy61
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