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 Kindergarten Cop has been replaced by a second showing of John Lewis: Good Trouble, a documentary about the recently deceased congressman and civil rights leader.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.
And The Producers
A demented constituency deserves a demented candidate
KINDERGARTEN COP...I watched the film many times...Arnold ended up going undercover as the teacher...His female partner got sick...
The film was OK...
Attack on this film is just silly...There is nothing racist about the movie...It is just a comedy...
I chose to screen "Watching Paint Dry 7: The Final Chapter" instead...
Thats it.
I suspect you are at least ten years younger than I am.
Jingle All the Way now there’s a crime.
GMAFB!
These people (Lenin’s useful idiots) are batshit crazy. That the puppet masters have to stoop to using a bunch of crazies to implement their agenda is the surest sign that their agenda is incredibly dangerous.
It’s Leftist dogma that Obama took nationwide from roots in Broward County. The dogma led directly to the Parkland shootings. This is well documented in Why Meadow Died, written by the father of one of the victims. Nick Cruz neither got help nor ended up in jail, as he should have, because everyone in the school system was too worried about putting another kid in the “school to prison pipeline.”
Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Died-Policies-Parkland/dp/1642932191
A serious national discussion on this should have been the result of Parkland. Instead we got David Hogg and more lockstep anti-2A drivel.
To paraphrase Jason Whitlock,
This is no longer a debate about that’s just a tv show or movies or pro sports leagues. This is about the preservation of American freedom and ideals. The subversion of sports (and entertainment) culture is directly tied to the subversion of American culture.
How about telling these whiners to F off?
Wasn’t it the pipeline-to-prison Obama-era policies that enabled the Parkland Florida shootings?
Why do these people want an undisciplined, uncontrollable, unaccountable populace?
Oh yes. Goods Times at Ridgemont High with drugs, nudity, bad language and disrespect for education. Just what parents want their kids to see.
Was the real turning of america in 2016? Or at least planned for, and there was a fly in the ointment. It was so brazen that the shock of losing was as painful as losing to HIM. There was never supposed to be a BREXIT, or a few other items no matter what was delayed, China...our real rival was supposed to have walked right into our business, and the media would be complicitly watching without response. The craziness of what is going on in government is to cover for the things that cannot be covered anymore. Who is going to bail out the overspending (democratic) states? Who is going to bail out the overspending Europeans? Who is going to cover for the decades of the Chinese government paying off our our politicians? Is it through Soros?
It will be a weird time til November.
DK
NEA (union): “Oh my God. Look what we created with all the social engineering instead of real curriculum studies! It’s a school-to-prison pipeline! Quick...we must hide our mistakes.”
Shouldn't it be the BIRTH-to-prison” pipeline ??
Good points you posted.
I expect more than weird. I expect chaos, violence, and pain.
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