It's a joke in here but it's actually really fucked up that the most accessible free entertainment for kids is racist YouTubershttps://twitter.com/yashar/status/843901382809862145 …
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When they workshopped Sesame Street in the 70s they specifically said it had to be free broadcast TV, bc 99% of households had that
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The whole point was to try to reach the underserved, not create another luxury for rich kids
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Now Sesame Street's on HBO, Reading Rainbow is a paid app, there's barriers to all the halfway decent content
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YouTube now is what broadcast TV was in the 60s and it's SO MUCH WORSE than the "vast wasteland" from the famous speech about TV
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CTW was founded by ppl freaking out that the poorest 20% of kids were watching TV that was just exploitative schlock
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Afternoon TV that was just soap operas and talk shows and hidden camera prank shows and gimmicky game shows
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You know, about as bad as daytime TV is today, but still several notches above PewDiePie paying homeless ppl to do Nazi salutes
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It's like holy shit who expected that letting your kids watch ppl stream Minecraft unattended could get them talking about "feminazi SJWs"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm an educated parent, with a fair bit of a clue, and it never hit me that Minecraft vids would be full of that shit.
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