Yes, there is no threat so great as a cartoon that celebrates nature. My partner's children watch it, and I'm not a fan, but it is non-violent and they seem to like it.
Think Progress (from Media Matters) is reporting the war against SpongeBob! His crime? Accepting science. We can't have our children doing that. We can buy our science from low-wage PH.D countries. Americans are fit for shovels in their hands (unless they are in the top 5%).
In July, the Department of Education invited children from Washington, DC to its “Let’s Read! Let’s Move!” series in which they were “treated to free books” including one from Nickelodeon’s “The Big Green Help” series entitled “Spongebob Goes Green! An Earth-Friendly Adventure.” Carlson saw fit to point out that the books “blamed man for global warming, but they did not tell kids that that is actually a disputed fact. Oops!” Doocy determined, “Clearly, Nickelodeon is pushing a global warming agenda”:
DOOCY: The Department of Education invited a bunch of DC kids in and they had this festivity and they handed out these particular Nickelodeon books where clearly Nickelodeon is pushing a global warming agenda. While there’s no disputing the fact that the Earth is getting a little warmer, the big question is is it man-made or is it just one of those gigantic, climactic phases we’re going – for a while we’re cold then we get warmer and then we get colder, warmer, which one is it? There’s science on both sides, there a lot of scientists who say it’s this, others who say its that.
BRIGGS: Right. It’s unproven science and again, this is public education system that we all pay our tax dollars for. And the Spongebob book says that its a man-made problem that requires human intervention.
DOOCY: Right, they’re presenting it as fact.
Fox And Friends: Spongebob Squarepants Is ‘Pushing A Global Warming Agenda’
They make a virtue of ignorance.
Welcome to our Brave New World. Economic Depression and intellectual ignorance.
Brought to you by the 1%ers and their lackeys at Fox and the Republican Party.
Aided and abettted by many.
This is a class war and working people will have no choice but to fight back at some point.
Wisconsin and Ohio show the way forward. People power.