Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread for August 03, 2020OT/LE

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The mad cancellation of Kindergarten Cop

Local paper Willamette Week reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie about a policeman pretending to be a teacher has lost its slot at the Northwest Film Center’s (NWFC) drive-in summer cinema series in Portland.

Despite being rated PG-13 (meaning children are permitted to view it), the movie was deemed offensive by local author Lois Leveen. ‘There’s nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the “school-to-prison” pipeline’, she tweeted.

Reason reports that the NWFC responded directly to Leveen’s tweet by announcing the cancellation of the screening. It said this decision followed conversations with ‘staff and community members’.

Leveen even emailed Willamette Week to say that, although Kindergarten Cop is just a film, the same is true of the pro-KKK classic, The Birth of a Nation. ‘We recognise films like those are not “good family fun”’, she said, but rather ‘relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions’.

Comparing Kindergarten Cop to Birth of a Nation is some serious Poe's Law shit. Looks like we're heading for the Demolition Man future after all.

[–]rwkastenBring on the dancing horses[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

BRB - stocking up on seashells before the normies figure it out.