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I love how they pretend that Sesame Street is some sacred neutral institution that’s been co-opted by communists. Mississippi banned Sesame Street in 1970 for having an integrated cast. Outrage over “corrupting children’s television” has always been around.

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What the hell this actually happened https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/03/archives/mississippi-agency-votes-for-a-tv-ban-on-sesame-street.html

The same member who asked not to be identified said, “Mainly the commission members felt that Mississippi was not yet ready for it.”

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They targeted Big Bird. Big Bird.

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It’s so weird that during my lifetime we reached the point where a significant number of people turned against teaching kids to share and to have good teamwork.

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I’m old enough to remember Jerry Falwell going on a rant against The Gay Teletubby. And Newt Gingrich’s crusade to defund PBS, because it was run by leftists. And the age-old conspiracy theories about everything from Disney to D&D being a Satanic Plot to End Christianity.

This is depressingly normal American behavior.

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Gonna tell my kids this is The internationale

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