Sesame Street is ‘a propaganda tool for the Left’

[The Minsky Moment]

Sesame Street, which first aired early in the Nixon adminisration, is typical capitalist-imperialist propaganda designed to dull the wits of proletarian and vaguardist toddlers.  The puppet protagonists are obsessed with fetished commodities like rubberized bath toys and mass-produced baked goods, and with talismans of elitist culture like ballet tutus.  Puppets and human youth alike are controlled by a narrow-minded petit bourgeois ruling class such as the proprieters of a grocery store and a poorly disguised pawn shop and various petty professionals.  The only character that dares to challenge the crushing oppression of the system is portrayed as a filthy, worm-ridden denzien of a trash can, thus reinforcing the message of conformity.  The interests of finance capital are regularly reinforced by forcing the characters (and thus viewers) to engage in simple ritualistic accounting excercises involving rote recitation of numerical sequences. 

[Razgovory]

You slipped up on the ballet.  Commies loved ballet.

[The Minsky Moment]

You slipped up on the ballet.  Commies loved ballet.

Only the Russian betrayers of the revolution.

[Josquius]

Isn't most kids TV leftist if we're playing that game?
Caring for others, diversity, etc.... are pretty universal traits of kid's TV.

[Malthus]

I'd love to see the Libertarian version of Sesame Street.

'Sharing is for parasites'. 

[The Brain]

Not much left wing about The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour.

[crazy canuck]

The only character that dares to challenge the crushing oppression of the system is portrayed as a filthy, worm-ridden denzien of a trash can, thus reinforcing the message of conformity.

You forgot the most insidious aspect.  Through a seemingly innocent game of "one of these things doesn't belong" youth are conditioned to indentify all those who do not conform and to immediately report such deviants.

[Razgovory]

I'd love to see the Libertarian version of Sesame Street.

'Sharing is for parasites'. 

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[derspiess]

Isn't most kids TV leftist if we're playing that game?
Caring for others, diversity, etc.... are pretty universal traits of kid's TV.

That was kinda my point earlier, though of course I take exception with the notion of caring for others being a leftist notion.

[Zoupa]

For me, as someone acutely attuned to leftwing bias in TV, movies, news, etc.,

Damn, I'd like to be acutely attuned. Can you teach me, massa?

[Ed Anger]

I don't let my kids watch the Street. Not because of some non-exitant bias, just because of fucking ELMO.

BRING BACK READING RAINBOW.

[derspiess]

For me, as someone acutely attuned to leftwing bias in TV, movies, news, etc.,

Damn, I'd like to be acutely attuned. Can you teach me, massa?

[dps]

For me, as someone acutely attuned to leftwing bias in TV, movies, news, etc.,

Damn, I'd like to be acutely attuned. Can you teach me, massa?

Don't let him fool you.  His condition is chronic, not acute.

[Zoupa]

For me, as someone acutely attuned to leftwing bias in TV, movies, news, etc.,

Damn, I'd like to be acutely attuned. Can you teach me, massa?

[jamesww]

I'd love to see the Libertarian version of Sesame Street.

'Sharing is for parasites'. 

That'll be a tea party.