Sesame Street is ‘a propaganda tool for the Left’

Started by jimmy olsen, June 02, 2011, 08:27:33 AM

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 03, 2011, 01:29:08 AM
OK, do FDR and Pinochet.

FDR's policies may have saved the US from a potential communist revolution, he favored a muscular foreign policy, he was racially insensitive. OTOH, he greatly increased the size of the government and he fought the Nazis. So even from a modern mainstream US pov he can be argued both ways. When you consider that communists would consider his New Deal to be right-wing reactionism and many or most of his contemporaries saw nothing wrong with his internment of Japanese-Americans it's clear that the terms need a lot of context to be descriptive in a helpful way.

Don't really know much about Pinochet.
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Martinus

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 03, 2011, 02:23:41 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 03, 2011, 01:29:08 AM
OK, do FDR and Pinochet.

FDR's policies may have saved the US from a potential communist revolution, he favored a muscular foreign policy, he was racially insensitive. OTOH, he greatly increased the size of the government and he fought the Nazis. So even from a modern mainstream US pov he can be argued both ways. When you consider that communists would consider his New Deal to be right-wing reactionism and many or most of his contemporaries saw nothing wrong with his internment of Japanese-Americans it's clear that the terms need a lot of context to be descriptive in a helpful way.

Don't really know much about Pinochet.

To be honest, I fail to see what "fighting the Nazis" has anything to do with FDR's political stances. Hint: governments sometimes go to war with other governments of the same type/ideology. (For example, monarchies sometimes fought with each other in history, it does not make one of the anti-monarchist or republican).

The Larch

Quote from: Capetan Mihali on June 02, 2011, 09:37:49 PM
I also remember watching "Barrio Sésamo" in high school Spanish class, which was hilarious.

Proper Spanish Barrio Sésamo or some Latin American version?  :P