Sesame Street is PROBLEMATIC.

under a bridge wrote:

man up wrote:

Still with the sh!t parody.

Painfully unfunny.

+1

Every time that I hear people wondering why there aren’t more conservative comics, I think of embarrasssing threads like this.

It's kind of funny, as there are actually people who think and speak like OP. Maybe you just don't get it?

20972509720345723-5670259 wrote:

Meh. Lame satire of cancel culture.

Sound about WHITE.

Let me guess: another STRAIGHT CIS GENDERNORMATIVE NUEROTYPICAL MALE made fragile by the fear of losing his unearned power.

I get it. Not everyone is ready to do the WORK necessary to dismantle systemically oppressive institutions like Sesame Street. BUT WE MUST AND WE SHALL WORK TOWARD A CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS that is required to deconstruct systems of oppressive psychological terrorism found in the very DNA of the 50+ years of SesameKKKStreet that is available on PBS and through a unique and forward-thinking new streaming partnership with HBO.

Also, Sesame Street is literally built on stolen indigenous land.

Cancel Sesame Street wrote:

20972509720345723-5670259 wrote:

Meh. Lame satire of cancel culture.

Sound about WHITE.

Let me guess: another STRAIGHT CIS GENDERNORMATIVE NUEROTYPICAL MALE made fragile by the fear of losing his unearned power.

I get it. Not everyone is ready to do the WORK necessary to dismantle systemically oppressive institutions like Sesame Street. BUT WE MUST AND WE SHALL WORK TOWARD A CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS that is required to deconstruct systems of oppressive psychological terrorism found in the very DNA of the 50+ years of SesameKKKStreet that is available on PBS and through a unique and forward-thinking new streaming partnership with HBO.

Also, Sesame Street is literally built on stolen indigenous land.

Take a break, you must be boring even yourself at this stage.

Ciro wrote:

Take a break, you must be boring even yourself at this stage.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women, and non-binary folk) to do nothing."

So no, I will not "take a break." An America that can elect its first Black, first Asian, and first woman vice president is surely ready to reckon with the painful legacy of Sesame Street. Can you listen the Slavic minstrelsy that is Count von Count and not understand how this wounds your Eastern European neighbors? I cannot, and I will not. And Grover's lips? He might as well be in blackface, for crying out loud.

Our collective conscious (and critical consciousness) is at stake. Will we do what is right, or what is easy? I implore you to reflect on the words of a new American icon:

"It's because being American is more than a pride (about the beloved award-winning publicly-funded and yet horrifyingly insensitive children's educational television programing) we inherit,

it's the past we step into

and how we repair it."

To thee I sing: cancel Sesame Street.

Good thing there is still the Muppet Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0uE6c_IN8A

A very dull conservative routine and very unfunny.

But I’m sure you think you’re a witty git.

Snowflake elite wrote:

under a bridge wrote:

+1

Every time that I hear people wondering why there aren’t more conservative comics, I think of embarrasssing threads like this.

It's kind of funny, as there are actually people who think and speak like OP. Maybe you just don't get it?

The people angrily denigrating the joke are either painfully unaware of the joke, or they're mad because they know the joke is at their expense. Most people don't post about how unfunny they find something unless it strikes a nerve.

Ciro wrote:

very unfunny.

We agree. There is NOTHING funny about the continued presence of Sesame Street in the pre-naptime routine of America's toddlers.

Sunny day, sweepin' the bigotry away

On my way to where the air is free to the historically underserved and disenfranchised

Can you tell me how to get?

How to get Sesame Street canceled forever?

Cancel Sesame Street wrote:

To thee I sing: cancel Sesame Street.

How about we cancel this whole country? Maybe we can sell it off to some Middle East country that can up their supply of oil reserves and get prices back up to $4.00, or we let China take over completely and we all become Amazon delivery people.

Snowflake elite wrote:

under a bridge wrote:

+1

Every time that I hear people wondering why there aren’t more conservative comics, I think of embarrasssing threads like this.

It's kind of funny, as there are actually people who think and speak like OP. Maybe you just don't get it?

There’s not much to get. It’s an uninspired attempt at satirizing a woke member of cancel culture. It’s just not good.

Sorry but, no. I can agree with not reading kids the books with racist caricatures, or at least showing kids why they're wrong, but I can't get behind removing the Cat in the Hat because he faintly resembles a minstrel character. Like really, where are people getting this from? I've seen the pictures, I guess he kind of resembles one because he wears a tophat and misntrels usually wear tophats. Also, let's see the evidence that people are actually OFFENDED by Cat in the Hat? There is probably none, but leftists will create the outrage by trying to convince everybody else that he is offensive.

Also your take that everything "offensive" (which is subjective and differs based on literally every person) must be removed from art and media is absurd and insane, which is why these types of events tend to receive backlash. But of course, people trying to preserve the integrity of art are going to be accused of being racist themselves, which drives the insanity even further.

under a bridge wrote:

There’s not much to get. It’s an uninspired attempt at satirizing a woke member of cancel culture. It’s just not good.

1. I acknowledge and reject your toxic attempt to jokeshame and gaslight me. Assimilate to your nonintersectional and fully binary standards for humor? SO HELP ME RBG, I WILL NOT.

2. This is not even a joke anyway.

3. Cancel Sesame Street.

10/10 best forum post i've seen in a while

under a bridge wrote:

Snowflake elite wrote:

It's kind of funny, as there are actually people who think and speak like OP. Maybe you just don't get it?

There’s not much to get. It’s an uninspired attempt at satirizing a woke member of cancel culture. It’s just not good.

Yeah, I also don’t find things funny when people make jokes about me or my beliefs that are painfully true.

But the thing is that it has just enough similarity to arguments that are taken seriously, but it sounds absurd. That’s why it’s great.

8/10 thread. Very funny.

Somebody Someone wrote:

under a bridge wrote:

There’s not much to get. It’s an uninspired attempt at satirizing a woke member of cancel culture. It’s just not good.

Yeah, I also don’t find things funny when people make jokes about me or my beliefs that are painfully true.

But the thing is that it has just enough similarity to arguments that are taken seriously, but it sounds absurd. That’s why it’s great.

8/10 thread. Very funny.

Except they aren’t painfully true. They are painfully trite. It’s an embarrassing attempt. It’s poor satire, followed up by needy responses.

Every time that I hear of people wondering why there aren’t more conservative comments, I think of flops like this.

*comics

You are clearly single. Enough virtue-signaling. You’re the dude everyone tunes out bc you drain the energy out of every room you prance into.

raised on the street wrote:

You are clearly single. Enough virtue-signaling. You’re the dude everyone tunes out bc you drain the energy out of every room you prance into.

Let's count the microaggressions:

1. Demeaning those of noncoupled relationship status

2. Assuming my intentions are somehow selfish (newsflash: not all of us are poisoned by Adam Smith AKA Satan's self-centered capitalist values)

3. Assuming my gender (as if I even have one?)

4. Prance = I'm feminine presenting = you devalue those that defy traditional gender stereotypes, hate women, and are so many forms of phobic that I can't even get into it right now.

Four. The number of the day is FOUR microaggressions in one post.

Yes, it does seem like you were "raised on the Street" indeed. I would expect nothing less from someone who's mom (or dad, or nonbinary parental figure, making no assumptions here) would let them watch hateful yet endlessly inventive and charming televised propaganda like Sesame Street.

Rojo: my exhaustion compels me to r̶e̶q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶ (no, be strong CSS, you are a King) DEMAND compensation for the emotional labor I endure in the name of educating your readership about the troubling nature of Sesame Street. PM me to talk numbers.

I would also, due to the textual violence displayed above, further demand that this thread be restricted to BIPOC and BIPOC-identifying runners, muppets*, and their allies.

*Obviously a demand made with tongue firmly in cheek: there are ZERO BIPOC MUPPETS. And no, Rosita, daughter of Conquistadors, DOESN'T COUNT.