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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 03:21 PM Jul 2020

BREAKING: "Paw Patrol" has not been canceled and LEGO is still making police station sets.

I have been informed that a number of factual claims McEnany makes in this clip are false. Paw Patrol has not been canceled and LEGO is still making police station sets.


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BREAKING: "Paw Patrol" has not been canceled and LEGO is still making police station sets. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 OP
Try not to celebrate too hard at your party greenjar_01 Jul 2020 #1
What is most telling to me is when there's the wide shot of the room. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #2
No need to worry. PAW Patrol is not canceled. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #3
Since people on here seem to have the memory of a goldfish...this was a big story in early June. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #4
I thought Kayleigh said she wouldn't lie gratuitous Jul 2020 #5
She clearly meant to say that she would never tell the truth. Lucinda Jul 2020 #6
Well...she lied. nt coti Jul 2020 #9
There might actually be a riot if Paw Patrol is cancelled Renew Deal Jul 2020 #7
sooooo, she lied? yep, she lied uponit7771 Jul 2020 #8

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
2. What is most telling to me is when there's the wide shot of the room.
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 03:54 PM
Jul 2020

Everyone is at a minimum 6 feet apart. That's going to be very hard to do in schools. Maybe, just barely if schools go with the plan to have only half the kids there on any given day, but even then.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
4. Since people on here seem to have the memory of a goldfish...this was a big story in early June.
Fri Jul 24, 2020, 07:02 PM
Jul 2020

Last edited Sat Jul 25, 2020, 05:47 AM - Edit history (1)

Since people on here seem to have the memory of a goldfish...this was a big story in early June.



CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’

A backlash is mounting against depictions of “good cops,” on television and in the street.

By Amanda Hess
June 10, 2020

Leer en español

It was only a matter of time before the protests came for “Paw Patrol.”

“Paw Patrol” is a children’s cartoon about a squad of canine helpers. It is basically a pretense for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks. The team includes Marshall, a firefighting Dalmatian; Rubble, a bulldog construction worker; and Chase, a German shepherd who is also a cop. In the world of “Paw Patrol,” Chase is drawn to be a very good boy who barks stuff like “Chase is on the case!” and “All in a police pup’s day!” as he rescues kittens in his tricked-out S.U.V.

But last week, when the show’s official Twitter account put out a bland call for “Black voices to be heard,” commenters came after Chase. “Euthanize the police dog,” they said. “Defund the paw patrol.” “All dogs go to heaven, except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.”

It’s a joke, but it’s also not. As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hearted cartoon police dogs — or maybe especially big-hearted cartoon police dogs — are on notice. The effort to publicize police brutality also means banishing the good-cop archetype, which reigns on both television and in viral videos of the protests themselves. “Paw Patrol” seems harmless enough, and that’s the point: The movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm.

The protests arrived in the midst of a pandemic that has alienated Americans from their social ties, family lives and workplaces. New and intense relationships with content have filled the gap, and now our quarantine consumptions are being reviewed with an urgently political eye. The reckoning has come for newspapers, food magazines, Bravo reality shows and police procedurals.

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