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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2020

      1. Cancel culture has gone too far! The middle-of-the-road extremists at The Altantic are urging parents to not show kids Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer as it is too "bleak" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/rankin-bass-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer/616932/ …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2020

      2. To be fair, there's much to admire in @CaitlinPacific piece, including the evocation of Tadahito Mochinaga's masterful puppetry (I had always wondered about where the decorative elegance of the stop-motion animation came from).

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Nov 2020

      3. But overall Flanagan makes the mistake of seeing Rudolph as sanctioning bullying rather than, as it does, celebrating the fellowship of outsiders. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer-atlantic-flanagan/ …

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        1. Matt Cannata‏ @mattecannata 27 Nov 2020
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          Matt Cannata Retweeted Matt Cannata

          The greater Rankin Bass universe was about how the contemporary cultural/policy debate settled on the Neoliberal consensus.https://mobile.twitter.com/mattecannata/status/1079986468968382464 …

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          Matt Cannata @mattecannata
          My research indicates Santa is the #neoliberal of the Christmas Town story. He paternalistically provides physical and social infrastructure that guides elves and reindeer to do things for his benefit, but he does not engage in rank exploitation. #rudolphtherednosedreindeer https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1075747009359798272 …
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        1. @BarackObama's burner‏ @BlackManUSA 27 Nov 2020
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          What idiot thinks it's okaying bullying? At the end everyone who tried to tell Rudolph was weird was wrong. Why are fighting over a cartoon?😂

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        2. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 27 Nov 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Someone said it promotes homophobia? :-/

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        3. afferent_input‏ @afferent_input 27 Nov 2020
          Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet

          Ragebait gonna rage.

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        1. Stiff L Man‏ @Stiffelman 27 Nov 2020
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          Agree.

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        1. Soaps and Sci-Fi‏ @SoapsandSciFi 27 Nov 2020
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          The irony is the only reason the misfit toys were deemed valuable to society (instead of being forgotten after their sad, lovely song) was down to the outcry of the broad general public who wrote in letters (the last scene w/the toys and Santa only appeared the following year).

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        1. sten.tarkusest‏ @tarkusest 27 Nov 2020
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          It celebrates nothing of the kind. The other reindeer only accept him when he does something important to them. Purely transactional. Otherwise he’d still be getting bullied. Ive always detested that song.

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        1. Thomas Cantwell‏ @AstoriaTom 27 Nov 2020
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          That fellowship takes a whole lot more pain & effort to achieve than the one everyone else gets handed to them—the one the outsiders are still expected to try to be accepted by.

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        1. Tao Jonesing‏ @TaoJonesing 27 Nov 2020
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          I remember a movie short from either SNL or Fridays in the 1980s that depicted Rudolph as a murderous gangster seeking revenge on all those who bullied him. Quite bloody and funny, but it revealed the dark underbelly of the story.

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        1. Credence McFadzean‏ @CredenceMcF 27 Nov 2020
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          Agreed. I think her analysis of Foreman Elf's voice is off too. Carl Banas maintains the gruff "WHY WEREN'T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE?" tone when commanding the other elves, but switches to a nasally, more effeminate voice when addressing Santa. This is the more notable distinction imo

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