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December 30, 2010
Magic Negroes and the Plastic Pap of the Unlamented Law & Order
It's clear that the writers present a calculated formulationof peoples and social phenomenon in order to motivate public opinion. Sure, they don't flash on screen, "Gay single mothers are awesome!", "This is Law and Order - skip the first 30 minutes because the detectives will go after common street thugs until we discover that the perpetrator is a conservative, upper class, white man preferably with blond hair", or "Captain Planet - don't have babies or you'll kill the Earth." The message, of course, isn't that explicit. Propaganda, especially that intended to subvert traditional norms, works surreptitiously. It presents radical ideas, such as a prep schooler whose father is a Harvard Law grad killing his friend in cold blood (actual Law and Order episode), as mundane, then lets the audience run with it. Liberal pop cultures pushes and prods, it hints, it gradually tells you what to think is normal and right. Think the Magic Negro as omniscient father figure in films like Bruce Almighty or the unbelievable movie 2012. -- OneSTDV: Liberal Hypocrisy on Popular Culture
Posted by Vanderleun at December 30, 2010 4:37 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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This much is true, Gerard: Given the high rate of crime in Mew York City's 27th Precinct, committed by upper class pharmaceutical CEO white supremecist fundamentalist Christian Islamophobes, there's no way in hell I'm letting my child attend Hudson University.
Posted by: Jewel at December 30, 2010 7:29 PM
You left out sexist, faggot hating and conservative voting. Are you sure Fred Phelps hasn't a chapel tucked away up there somewhere?
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at December 31, 2010 6:14 AM
Everyone knows that New York City is infested with these Phelpsians. And that the New Testament teaches men how to stone adulterous women. I saw it on Law and Order....in a couple of variations.
Posted by: Jewel at December 31, 2010 6:31 AM
The rule is: if Michael Moriarty ain't in it, I'm not watching.
After that it can go either way.
Posted by: Joy McCann/Miss Attila at January 1, 2011 2:13 AM