"Kindergarten Cop" is deemed RACIST and OFFENSIVE to modern audiences

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   Stevennix2001posted 4 years ago

   
   According to various sources, the classic 90's film, "Kindergarten Cop", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as an undercover cop posing as a kindergarten teacher to catch a drug dealer, who happens to be white, is now being pulled from a film festival because many protesters feel it's "offensive" and "racist."  Oh my.   
   
   One of the articles I read online about this says that protesters claim that it glorifies police traumatizing children, and explicitly compared it to the 1915 silent film, "Birth of a Nation", which was a film about the Klu Klux Klan being glorified as heroes after the Civil war.... No joke.   
   
   Ugh did any of these protesters see "Kindergarten Cop" or "Birth of a Nation" before? I've seen both films, and they're nothing alike honestly but maybe I'm just ignorant, as I'll be more than happy to read anyone who wants to chime in saying I'm wrong about there being no similarities between the two.   Also traumatizing kids?  I don't recall any kid in the movie being traumatized unless you want to really argue that Arnold yelling such lines like "IT'S NOT A TUMOR!" or "SHUUUUUUUUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUUP!" to be traumatizing, but the kids at the end of the movie loved him so um how were they traumatized exactly?  Can someone explain this to me.   
   
   Organizers of the NW Film Center in Portland, Oregon announced this week that the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy would be pulled from the lineup and replaced with a documentary celebrating the late Rep. John Lewis.
   
   "Kindergarten Cop" was filmed in Oregon, which makes it a historical landmark film in Oregon's history, and this year marks it's 30th anniversary, as that was the reason why it was selected for the film festival originally before protesters deemed it controversially with racist undertones.   
   
   In fact, white author and anti police critic , Lois Leveen, who's the lovely white girl with glasses that's in the picture I provided in this forum, has gone on record to say that the movie itself promotes a "school to prison pipeline", and she claims that it "romanticizes than policing." 
   
   Ms. Leveen goes on to say on Twitter and I quote:
   
     'Yes, KINDERGARTEN COP is only a movie. So are BIRTH OF A NATION and GONE WITH THE WIND, but we recognize films like those are not “good family fun,"'-  Lois Leveen 
   
   She goes on to say the following:
   
   'They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions'
   
   And then says:
   
     'There’s nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the “school-to-prison” pipeline in which African American, Latinx, and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated,'
   
   Oh boy.  Nothing like a white woman to tell me, even though I happen to be a minority myself, what exactly I should be offended by.  Wow.   You can't make this up. 
   
   Anyways, here's some links to know more:
   
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … ation.html
   
   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opin … g-canceled
   
   Anyways what are your thoughts on this folks?  Is the lovely Ms. Lois Leveen and others validated in their comparison of "Kindergarten Cop" being as offensive something like the 1915 Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind?  Or do you think cancel culture is getting out of hand?  Please discuss.

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      GA Andersonposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      We should get tee shirts printed with Live to Learn's comment: #Stoptheinsanity
      
      GA

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      Credence2posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I laughed at Gone With the Wind and never took it seriously as reflecting an archaic and bygone era, both regarding the period setting of the film and time that it was made. But I laughed at "The Exorcist" as well, so I am all for equal opportunity "laughing stocks".
      
      Birth of A Nation was a masterpiece of film making for the time and it was bigoted, but I consider the time and the source, 1915. What could I expect during a period when no one had problems with the extralegal lynchings taking place in the South.
      
      This remains a crude and savage culture in many ways, perhaps it is futile to believe that redemption of the human species will ever be possible, as I read articles regarding Indian (Southwest Asia) bringing its caste system and customs to Silicon Valley.
      
      I think that I have more urgent concerns than being oversensitive about things of relatively little significance. The time is better spent identifying and focusing on the pressure points that need to give so as to reform a retrograde system.
      
      So, yes, it is out of hand and of no real value.

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