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[Cancel Culture] Kindergarten Cop Is Canceled, Likened to Birth of a Nation

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  1. Os Trigonum

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    "Kindergarten Cop Is Canceled, Likened to Birth of a Nation":

    https://reason.com/2020/08/04/kindergarten-cop-is-canceled-likened-to-birth-of-a-nation/

    Kindergarten Cop Is Canceled, Likened to Birth of a Nation
    Portland's Northwest Film Center pulls film from summer drive-in schedule after critics say it promotes "school-to-prison pipeline."

    NICK GILLESPIE | 8.4.2020 1:15 PM

    It's come to this: Kindergarten Cop, a banal 1990 comedy-action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a police detective who masquerades as a teacher, has been canceled and likened to the explicitly racist silent film Birth of a Nation.

    Kindergarten Cop was slated to kick off Portland's Northwest Film Center's Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater on August 6 until critics led by local author Lois Leveen said the PG-13 movie promoted a "school-to-prison pipeline," according to the Willamette Week.
    In an email to Willamette Week, Leveen likened the Schwarzenegger vehicle to Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind:
    The Northwest Film Center wouldn't tell the Willamette Week's Matthew Singer "how much influence Leveen's comments had on its decision, but the organization did respond to her tweets directly in announcing the cancellation." Kindergarten Cop has been replaced by a second showing of John Lewis: Good Trouble, a documentary about the recently deceased congressman and civil rights leader. Other films in the series include Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Xanadu, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and The Shining.

    It's a good thing that "cancel culture" doesn't exist or otherwise this would be deeply disturbing, wouldn't it? This sort of skirmish is the predictable and regrettable outcome of the politicization of everything and a totalist approach to cultural production and consumption that assumes audience members are either slack-jawed dullards who are effectively programmed by what they watch or ultra-sensitive flowers shredded by every imaginable slight. Either way, madness lies. Or maybe just a new episode of Portlandia.

    Trigger warning: Here's the trailer for Kindergarten Cop, which has been called (accurately, in my view) "too grim for children and too cloying for adults" by the folks at Rotten Tomatoes.



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    I thought it was going to be the part where even the little kid knows the difference between boys and girls.
     
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    Justified.

    White cops need to chill out.
     
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    Well, that's dumb.
     
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    Spoilered for language.
     
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    What are they going to cancel next ? Predator?
    Because it’s about the American government hunting an illegal alien in Central America ??
     
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    At furst they came fo-uh Ahnald cahmidies, and we said nahthing...
     
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    What kind of dipshit sits around thinking about new ways to be offended? It’s never ending.
     
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    Remember all the lethal weapon movies?
    These softies would have a heart attack
     
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    The
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    Good for them.

    Demolition Man is an underrated prophesy.
     
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    Movie spoke the truth. Thats why its canceled.

     
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    I just realized my kids haven't seen this awesomeness. We're watching the **** outta this bad boy today
     
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    “It’s not a TUMAH!!!!”

    Well...it could have been. Cancelled!

    Thanks...Cancel Culture! My advice...there are a lot of South Park episodes that need cancelling next. Wankers!
     
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    Yup. This is EXACTLY why. Weirdos gonna weird.
     
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    Arnold will get canceled next. He is a strong successful person. Definitely doesn't sit well with certain people.
     
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