1. The education system is failing! https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1151077475180527616 …
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6. The critique that Hogan's Heroes whitewashed or made light of Nazis wasn't just made by woke millennials -- that was Mad Magazine's critique in the 1960s (they shifted story from a POW camp to a concentration camp).pic.twitter.com/WKbwvmNy4v
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7. Other interesting byproduct of Hogan's Heroes is the movie Auto Focus about the disturbing life & death of star Bob Crane. Not a great movie but a decent one.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Focus
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8. One last thing: Hogan's Heroes shows how seemingly contemporary "woke" controversies are usually reprisals of critiques that existed all along. That's true of much debates about culture. These controversies are of long standing.
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Because of.
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There was Enlisted in 2014 that was, uh, serviceable, but it didn’t do well and only got 13 episodes.
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Was Blackadder series 4 the last one?
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And it feels like fewer people as a percentage of the population have served or have relatives who’ve served.
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I think it’s the end of mandatory conscription that killed it. People who serve in the military were a big part of the population, now a tiny minority.
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I think this is it on the nose - military service wasn’t so much a big part of the population in the 1960s but it was universal and made the grunt a kind of Everyman. Now we have Star Wars (5th column) and Infinity Wars (reluctant chosen)
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My money's on DoD funding being pulled for anything portraying troops as anything less than Morally Stalwart Upright Citizens Catching Terrorists
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