Why is it whenever we have a post based on what some college professor has said it has to be completely inane? Judging by the amount of licensed merchandise we’ve seen, we can certainly believe the kids’ cartoon “Paw Patrol” is doing its part for capitalism, but we didn’t know it encouraged capitalism, and that was a bad thing.
Does Paw Patrol encourage our kids to embrace capitalism? https://t.co/oTMv9M6g4s pic.twitter.com/RAoZGzoS8U
— CBC London (@CBCLondon) February 7, 2020
This report comes out of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in London, Ontario, and features the views of criminology professor Liam Kennedy. Remember how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently reminded us that it’s physically impossible to pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps? Kennedy seems a similar problem depicted in “Paw Patrol,” who apparently run as a for-profit augmentation of the taxpayer-funded police force:
Liam Kennedy’s two-year-old son isn’t allowed to watch Paw Patrol.
“He has now internalized my feelings about the series and knows that we don’t in fact watch Paw Patrol in our house,” said the King’s University College professor in an interview with London Morning’s Rebecca Zandbergen.
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… Kennedy takes issue with Paw Patrol as a kind of stand-in for a government-funded police force. “I would argue that the Paw Patrol, as a private corporation, is used to help provide basic social services in the Adventure Bay community.
“That’s problematic in that the Paw Patrol creators are sending this message that we can’t depend on the state to provide these services.”
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“I just think that as time goes on, children might be less likely to critique the capitalist system that causes environmental harm in the first place and reproduces inequality,” Kennedy said.
But what about the “No job is too big, no pup is too small” message so often quoted on the show? Kennedy has a problem with that too.
“To me that’s an individualist message. Pull up your boot straps, you can do it if you just try hard enough. That kind of message ignores structural barriers in our society and not everyone can do it,” he said.
This crap was actually published in the journal “Crime Media Culture.”
my son watches paw patrol and now he runs around the house screaming "fuck the working class"
— Mike Pfeil (@mikeFAIL) February 10, 2020
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"That's problematic in that the Paw Patrol creators are sending this message that we can't depend on the state to provide these services."
Why would CBC run a piece encouraging people to depend on the state for services? I just don't understand it.
— Taylor MacPherson (@TaylorMacP) February 8, 2020
Communist Broadcasters of Canada
— Resonate The Great (@Reson8theGreat) February 10, 2020
— kevin steele (@steelesy5) February 8, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen… Our hard earned money at work.
— Thunder Lips?#PPC (@Official_AUR) February 10, 2020
Defund.
— Jason Belanger (@JasonDBelanger) February 8, 2020
What is CBC grasping at now?
— Brad (@brad_ulel) February 10, 2020
If you don't support capitalism, I guess you better pack your bags and take the next flight to the communist country of your choice…. Better sell your computer, phone, car, clothes and everything else you bought from capitalist companies. #defundCBC
— Don Rhodes (@DonRhodes3) February 10, 2020
No wonder CBC can't sell any advertising. It goes against their anti-capitalist ideology and there are few advertisers who meet the lofty ethical standards on environment, gender and diversity.
— Jay Kowal (@jaycola) February 10, 2020
CBC, once again the mouthpiece of radical leftists and communists in Canada#defundcbc
— Sirko (@AFTMKT12) February 10, 2020
There are a lot of bad things about Paw Patrol. None are mentioned in this article. This is academic click bait masquerading as something important.
— Scott Penny (@scottpenny) February 10, 2020
This is garbage.
— Alex Simonelis (@alexsimonelis) February 10, 2020
— ForTheLoveOfHockey? (@Jennie_mda) February 10, 2020
— Corey (@CDRmacdonald) February 10, 2020
Heavens, no ?
DELETE this nonsense. ❌
— Selena Hanuman (@Gloritone) February 10, 2020
My grandson watches #PawPatrol and then wants me eat yogurt with him. WTF man….is this what capitalism is!!!!
— Michelle (@Michell72550930) February 10, 2020
Paw patrol should encourage kids to live in New York and get a liberal arts degree so they can be $100000 dollars in debt for the rest of their lives.
— Bathan (@cheesestringy) February 10, 2020
Just stfu already
— ™️ (@dutchishh) February 10, 2020
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