Ideologues live in perpetual terror of children becoming susceptible to “undesirable messages”. Whether it’s the religious right fretting over the “Satanic” influence of Dungeons and Dragons, Muslims offended by Winnie-the-Pooh, or the Cultural Marxist left horrified by Enid Blyton and C. S. Lewis.
The latest children’s entertainment to come under the gimlet-eyed scrutiny of the perpetually offended is…
…Paw Patrol.
Yes, you read me right: Paw Patrol, the ultra-cute animated series about a team of plucky pups who always find a way to help those in need, is a horrific “negative influence” on the young pioneers of the Komsomol. Forget its self-declared message of learning bravery and heroism and caring for animals: this wicked propaganda really encourages children to act for themselves and not rely on the government.
It should be no surprise that university professor Liam Kennedy is a sociologist, a discipline almost universally dominated by leftists (98%) – most of whom are self-declared “radicals” (83%), if not outright Marxists (25%) – and long notorious for its “ideological bias and left-wing groupthink”.
So it’s not surprising that this career leftist wrings his hands and clutches his pearls at the possibility that kids might glean the merest hint that the state is not an all-encompassing, benevolent nanny.
The representations of the state in the series are portrayed negatively. Mayor Humdinger is portrayed as unethical and corrupt, Mayor Goodway as bumbling, hysterical and incompetent.
Where would anyone possibly get the idea that the state is unethical, bumbling, hysterical and incompetent? It’s not as if anything like Hurricane Katrina or coronavirus ever happens.
According to the Paw Patrol’s own website, “While Mayor Goodway always looks very put-together on the outside, she is usually on the verge of falling apart on the inside. Her anxiety is frequently uncalled-for, as she is quick to portray any and all unplanned events as disasters…with almost anything she does, she overreacts…”
Who here thinks that this describes the way governments frequently operate, to a T?
As for Mayor Humdinger, our soy-emaciated leftist seems to have a curious blind spot. Mayor Humdinger is, if anything, the arch-capitalist, always seeking to line his own pockets. With his top hat and moustache, he’s practically the twin of Rich Uncle Pennybags from Monopoly.
But, what really worries Professor Manbaby is the heretical idea of self-responsibility.
The Paw Patrol” creators are sending this message that we can’t depend on the state […]children may internalise messages about, for instance, mistrust of the state, or, the show puts a lot of responsibility on individuals to go out and recycle and protect the environment […]everyone should recycle, but we should also depend on the state to facilitate that process.
To me, that’s an individualist message that pull yourself by your bootstraps, you can do it if you try hard enough.
cbc.ca/player/play/1694999107726/
That’s right, kids: don’t get any high-and-mighty ideas that you can do it. Just ask leftist demigoddess AOC: it’s physically impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You’re a helpless dependent of the government, where everyone gets a prize.
But our soy-boy academic seems more than a little confused in his own thinking. The same leftist who says kids should implicitly trust the state also believes that tots should never trust the enforcers of the state: he also criticises other kids’ shows for showing policemen as benevolent.
Other leftists seem just as confused, arguing that, rather than a love-song to libertarian individualism, Paw Patrol is:
A misogynistic, conservative authoritarian fantasy […] desensitiz[ing] our youth to the police state[…]a soft and cuddly mirror of Donald Trump’s violent and misogynistic America.
medium.com/s/story/paw-patrol-is-a-republican-dystopia-
It’s almost as if leftist academics haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about.
What’s really going on here is a massive case of projection, the psychological habit of attributing one’s own faults to others. Leftists are born didacts, not to say propagandists. Everything, especially children’s entertainment, has the primary purpose of enforcing ideology. Above all, they cannot conceive that a kid’s cartoon about pups is just a kid’s cartoon about pups.
As always, the Babylon Bee skewers these idiots perfectly:
A controversial new Paw Patrol episode shows the pups rounding up commies around Adventure Bay[…]any commies they capture are chucked out of Skye’s helicopter.
babylonbee.com/news/in-new-paw-patrol-episode-pups-round-up-commies-around-adventure-bay
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