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Belgium
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Are you sure that your kids are safe right now? Yes? What are they doing right now? They are watching TV. Come on, don’t you know that TV can have most damaging influence on the children during the formation of their personality? Oo, you blocked the so called risky channels. So, I presume your kids are watching cartoons. Wrong choice… Why?
Do you want your kid to be a communist? If you let him watch the Smurfs he will surely become one.
Did you know that the Smurfs were communists? No?! It is obvious! Let me tell you.
“First of all, the Smurfs shared everything. The food in the Smurf village was stored away in those mushrooms the minute it was harvested and then equally distributed to all the Smurfs throughout the year. No one farmer Smurf sold his crop to a consumer Smurf.” To Smurfs sharing came naturally, everybody could take what they needed and nobody hazarded to take more. No Smurf was used by another for the individual profit.
“Then there were those jobs each Smurf held. There was Handy Smurf, and Painter Smurf, and Brainy Smurf, etc... Each Smurf had his own specific job and was not allowed to try his hand at any other Smurf's assigned task.” In one episode an evil spell came upon the Smurfs that made them change their tasks. Painter Smurf started building, Brainy Smurf to bake and so on… Of course after a little while the Smurf village was beginning to collapse. The message was clear. Stick to the position that was assigned to you and maybe you do best. Like this you will benefit the community. You are not an individual, after all also the Smurfs were named after the position they held and not by real names.
“Some other evidence I've gathered may strain the limits of credibility. Decide for yourself: Papa Smurf wore a red cap.” Isn’t red a communist colour. The only different Smurf wore a red hat. A portrait of a communist leader. The Smurfs also despised intellectuals. Brainy Smurf was often ridiculed and his advice was never taken into account.
Then there was Gargamel, the evil Gargamel. He was after Smurfs for pure profit. He originally wanted to make gold from them. “For some reason, in the later years when the show was dying, they started saying that he wanted to eat the poor blue creatures, but for the most part he wanted to turn them into gold. He didn't care about the Smurfs themselves, their culture, or their well-being. All he cared about was getting gold. His only interest in how to get rich, and nothing, nothing would get in his way. Gargamel was a capitalist.” Gargamel was an enemy.
So, you see, we have: equal distribution of property; fulfilling one’s task in order to benefit the community without any wish for any self development or self profit; despising of intelligence, and showing how unimportant it is in real life; and a capitalist Gargamel threat that can ruin the ideal community.
(More on: http://www.iamlost.com/features/smurfs/commies.shtml )
If you think the Smurfs are the only danger, then you’re wrong. You want other examples? Here we go.
Do you want your kid to become homosexual? If you let him watch Teletubbies, he will.
A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle. The spokesperson for children's rights in Poland, Ewa Sowinska, singled out Tinky Winky, the purple character with a triangular aerial on his head. "I noticed he was carrying a woman's handbag," she told a magazine. "At first, I didn't realise he was a boy." So purple creatures with a triangle on their heads are boys, therefore they should not wear handbags. Because a bag is a sign of homosexuality. Ok, I understand now…
(More on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6698753.stm )
Do you want your kid to be a drunk? If you let him watch Little Red Riding Hood, he will.
It seems that when Trina Schart Hyman was illustrating her 1984 Caldecott-winner, Little Red Riding Hood (Holiday House), one of the items she tucked into Red's basket of goodies was a bottle of wine. Since most grandmothers then and now drink an occasional glass of wine, this was no big deal but certainly authentic to the period of the tale. (If it were meant to be a contemporary tale, Little Red Riding Hoot would have taken the bus or gone by car). Nonetheless, within a year of its publication, uproar ensued when the parents wanted the book to be banned because of the wine, since it posed a threat to the healthy development of their kids. As a consequence some districts decided to remove the book from the library collections. What about the kids? They cheered themselves up with internet.
(More on: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/censor2.html)
You see…danger comes in many forms and guises. Think very carefully which lullaby you will sing to your kid tonight, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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