Thomas The Tank Engine Racist Because Good Engines Pump Out White Smoke And Evil Trai

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Lib Rag Guardian: Thomas The Tank Engine Racist Because Good Engines Pump Out White Smoke And Evil Trains Black Smoke…

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I think we’re reaching the pinnacle of liberal PC insanity.

Thomas the Tank Engine had to shut the hell up to save children everywhere – Guardian


There are many terrible children’s programs through which parents must suffer during their child’s young life. For every Sesame Street, there is an annoying Caillou or an acid-trippy Yo Gabba Gabba. But Thomas and Friends is – or was – the one show with enough subversive messages to make me turn it off for good. [...]

But there was one particular episode that caused me to put the brakes on Thomas for good. It revolved around James, a red engine who is described in the opening credits as “vain but lots of fun.” (Wait, it’s OK to be vain if you can show others a good time occasionally? Great – that’s going in my Parenting 101 book.) In the episode “Tickled Pink”, poor vain James, is ordered by Topham Hat to get a new coat of paint. But while James has only had an undercoat of pink slathered on, Topham Hatt interrupts and demands that James go pick up Hatt’s granddaughter and deliver her and her friends to a birthday party right now.

James is mortified that he has to travel while pink and proceeds to hide from all the other trains along the way. When he’s caught, the other trains – including Thomas – viciously laugh and mock him.

“What are you doing James? You’re a big pink steamie,” says Diesel, the bad-boy engine. (For the record, all the “villains” on Thomas and Friends are the dirty diesel engines. I’d like to think there was a good environmental message in there, but when the good engines pump out white smoke and the bad engines pump out black smoke – and they are all pumping out smoke – it’s not hard to make the leap into the race territory.)

But once James gets back on the rails and picks up Granddaughter Hatt and her friends, all seemingly ends well because the girls love pink.

Well guess what? It’s not OK. You think a little boy watching Thomas is going to file away the lesson that pink is OK for boys? No, what kids remember is that James was laughed at, cruelly, over and over again, because he looked different and was clad in a “girly” pink color.

 

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To be fair to the Guardian, that was so ridiculous its own readers tore the piece to shreds in the comments below. Now that it has so much online content, it has gone rapidly downhill, and is more and more known for this kind of thought-free PC sub-rants, farmed out to non-staff Buzzfeed types who presumably work for food, since they certainly don't do it for dignity.

I can even remember worse idiocies on there. There was a particularly special one which said that the football (soccer) World Cup was sexist for not including women in the teams, and that women should therefore not watch it.

 

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To be fair to the Guardian, that was so ridiculous its own readers tore the piece to shreds in the comments below. Now that it has so much online content, it has gone rapidly downhill, and is more and more known for this kind of thought-free PC sub-rants, farmed out to non-staff Buzzfeed types who presumably work for food, since they certainly don't do it for dignity.

I can even remember worse idiocies on there. There was a particularly special one which said that the football (soccer) World Cup was sexist for not including women in the teams, and that women should therefore not watch it.

The Guardian is a FUCKIMG JOKE

Anti WEST

Pro TERRORIST

No wonder its called


EL GUARDIAN!