So...If you've ever seen the original Looney Toons from the 40s, they are filled with racist stereotypes. There is a reason why they've been heavily edited when they were shown on Saturday morning cartoons in the 80s. Some stuff, which must've been done during WWII show Japanese soldiers as bucktooth and wearing thick glasses. Basically, they were dehumanizing them (and well....considering the atrocities the Japanese army did during WWII and before...maybe not so far off the mark).
But, we live in a world that does not have the same views as the past (well, at least for most of us). I saw a Twitter thread earlier today that called this type of outrage someone carrying the idiot ball. Apparently it comes from TV writers rooms, where they need a character in a show to act like an idiot for the episode. They said it started with Hank Azaria asking so who's carrying the idiot ball now?
The point it, the right-wing folks who went into a melt down over Mr. Potato Head or the Dr. Seuss stuff, they know they're making mountains out of molehills. They have decided, collectively, to carry the idiot ball. And remember, the ball is just a ball, but the idiot is the idiot....
The point I'm trying to make, this is fake outrage. They use it to distract people from the real problems. They do it to underreport things, like Biden's success passing the latest $1.9T Covid relief package. They do it to distract from the growing story regarding the attempted coup back in January. They do it so their viewers don't think about the GOPs many failings when they are the party in power.
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