 So obviously children's cartoons they're meant to entertain kids, but oftentimes they are meant to be Informative and educational. So if you watched Sesame Street as a kid as all of us did probably then you'd learn the alphabet You'd learn how to spell if you watched Dora the Explorer You'd learn some Spanish words if you watched the Care Bears as I did you'd learn that sharing is caring like it's not necessarily Unusual that cartoons try to instill values into children It's not like they are going out of their way to indoctrinate children into these Controversial things like Satanism or Marxism like that's not what cartoons do like the message is if they are talking about values are usually pretty anodyne However, they crossed the line according to Ben Shapiro when they start teaching children How to not be racist because a new show on a cartoon network Or maybe it was a PSA released by cartoon network either way it told kids that racism is bad and Ben Shapiro took issue with that Hey, and then you got cartoon network now pushing anti-racism Okay, so you've got Robin's the Angel and not just teaching coca-cola, but mainstreamed into cartoon network Now it's one thing to get mad at the Muppets from 1987 for telling a joke that you now consider culturally insensitive 30 years later It's another thing to get mad at Cartoon Network when Cartoon Network is literally just putting out PSA's mirror ring for children Mirroring Robin DeAngelo's talking points on racism and indoctrinating kids into a overtly racist garbage Here's the Cartoon Network pushing what is obviously racism? Well, I'm not an alien, but it definitely matters to me that I'm black. Yeah, it makes a difference that I'm white I know the two of us get treated very differently my experience with anti-black racism It's really specific other people of color experience other forms of racism, too But you won't see any of that if you don't see color Can we get a rewrite where we appreciate each other without erasing what makes each of us different? Okay, but it's gonna add a couple hours to the shoot. I can't make my skin open You're rolling just now, weren't you? Can't we just slap some graphics on this and call it a day? Hmm see color be anti-racist Shut up racist children See color be anti-racist So yes, we are all supposed to see each other as people of different colors whose experiences are completely non-understandable I cannot understand your experience in any way and because I can't understand your experience This is the Robin DeAngelo stuff. I have to listen and believe I can never try to assess whether Your opinion on a matter is non-factually or evidentially based Instead I have to listen and believe because you see I see color So I'm an anti-racist, which means I have to listen and believe whatever you say and presumably accept all of your policy Recommendations as well in order to destroy the systems of power. This is being taught to children at currency network to children Yeah, you wonder why people feel like they're under assault because they are under they're under assault. Who's under assault Ben? Why don't you finish the thought tell us who's under assault are white people under assault like who are you talking about? explain yourself I Mean, I don't know what to say about this other than if you think That it's bad that a cartoon is teaching your children not to be racist then I Can't not deduce that you must think that Racism is good. I mean, what else am I supposed to take away from this? Like the message there is Pretty benign. It's not really telling your children to become SJW is like It's saying Acknowledge that there are differences between human beings don't pretend as if those differences aren't there and be anti-racist Is that really that controversial? Would you really be offended if your children learned this and For whatever reason like he tries to tie Robin the Angelo to this she is the author of white fragility and it's a book that is controversial Because even though what she says about race from a social standpoint is sound her entire analysis is devoid of class analysis But Ben Shapiro doesn't care about race or class So the criticisms that are usually attributed to Robin the Angelo They're not applicable here. So I don't get why He's against this like I don't know like maybe it's the case that Robin the Angelo actually like scripted this cartoon Who knows but this is a very watered-down message that just basically tells your kids. Hey Don't be racist. Is that really that controversial and the way that he frames this is as if like this is some new phenomenon This is the next thing that the woke mob is doing. They're trying to indoctrinate your children But this is a new I mean Ben Shapiro. He can't be more than a couple years older than me So I'm assuming he grew up with all of the same television shows and cartoons that I watched So were you outraged back in the 1990s when Boy Meets World aired an episode about Antisemitism and racism was that offensive to you? Were you angry when family matters aired a show about how Laura Winslow was getting harassed by Racists and was called derogatory slurs like was that offensive to you? This isn't some new thing I don't understand why he takes so much issue with this now. I don't want to straw man him I want to try to steal man him so I'm going to assume that He doesn't think this cartoon is bad because he believes that we should be teaching our kids to be racist What he says here is If I accept that I am anti-racist I also have to believe I can never try to assess whether your opinion on a matter is not is Nonfactually or evidentiary based and he says that if you're anti-racist you have to quote accept all of your policy positions as well So this is why he's against it because he took that away from the cartoon You see if I watch the cartoon that is intended for children under the age of 10 I'm assuming what I take away from that is don't be racist But what he takes away from that is well, you know, if you're not racist then everything that a black person says We're supposed to take as gospel I don't think it's that complicated. I think it's just saying don't be racist acknowledge that there are races and Don't be racist be an anti-racist Like it's intended for children, but he's saying Actually, what they really want is for your children to white knight for black people to the extent that all of their Individual beliefs that they have well if they Conflict with something that a black person says then you should just like accept what the black person says But that's not what the cartoon is saying Like to say this is so bizarre like he can't believe this He can't believe that that's what the cartoon is saying and the individuals who constructed this PSA or whatever it was Do you honestly think that they're trying to promote to children that you have to accept? everything that people of color say as like gospel of course as Individuals were allowed to have different ideologies and different beliefs and Be intellectually curious about different things. It's just saying Not to be racist That's it but of course since Ben Shapiro is The antithesis of an SJW which means he is He's so much of an anti SJW that you kind of go full circle and you become an SJW yourself where you become outraged about everything yourself Like he he has to see Negativity in this he has to see this and think man This is just the vocal f trying to brainwash my children because how dare anyone tell my kids That being racist is bad Okay You're kind of telling on yourself here Because I don't know how anyone would take issue with this message It's a very basic message that shouldn't in theory be controversial Shut up racist children But of course He's taking issue with it because don't you dare fucking tell his kids that they can't be racist if they want to be racist That's fine. Maybe the cartoon should be teaching children that if they want to be racist, that's fine And some people are racist some people aren't is that like more appropriate. I just I don't get the controversy here Like I'm failing to see why this is an issue according to his own standards that he stated there if we are steel mining him I don't get it. It's for kids. The simple message is don't be racist and that's it I mean out of all the issues in the world all of the things going on in the country He chooses to talk about this. What a fucking clown