I can barely even understand how anyone could think PBS is propaganda.
None of these chuds have ever watched a minute of PBS in their adult lives.
Its a mistake to believe that this is an irrational or ignorant decision. These guys KNOW what the message of PBS is and there is a reason they don't want it to get to kids. They are making child soldiers and they don't want people giving them inconvenient values.
You guys are telling jokes while the other side is building an army. Maybe start taking this shit seriously.
100%. American liberals really do think this is just more of the same old Bush-era GOP misbehavior and are responding to it as such.
The thing is, if you're an American and you know how hard it is to simply vote out fascism, and if you understand how close America's empire is to the brink of disaster, you're either running or, lacking the means, mentally preparing yourself for a struggle to survive.
I pulled up stakes and left, but I still have to keep my sense of humour to stay sane.
It's really easy! If you imagine that a black person and a white person could never be friends or spend positive time together, and then you saw a show that had them together, you might conclude the show is trying to convince you something is okay that you know is not. Propaganda.
If you imagine that a gay person is inherently wrong, and that bad things deserve to happen to them as punishment for their choices, and then you watch a show where a gay person is happy and normal and respected, you might conclude the show is trying to push an idea on you that you already know isn't right. Propaganda.
It's sad, and dangerous, but it's not complicated.
Very well put
Thank you so much for commenting this. It's so annoying to see both the original screenshot and so many exchanges in here either playing dumb or actually being dumb about WHY they see PBS as propaganda. As always, people are more interested in appearing to preach epic gotcha wins to their own choir, while totally sweeping the real meaning of their opponent's statement under the rug. It's not being nice and learning to read that the right takes issue with PBS over, it's race, gender, and sexuality issues. But rather than respond to them on that more difficult ground, the masses choose to go for pointless low hanging fruit like "lol so you hate kindness????", and then congratulate the OP for owning the right, meanwhile the right is totally unphased by that completely off-topic mark-missing response. And then we wonder why the right sees us as a bunch of circlejerky bubble-world morons.
I can barely even understand how anyone could think PBS is propaganda.
Propaganda, that's how.
The Reich wing is infuriatingly effective at using projection as both a defensive measure and an assault.
I have an uncle who thinks anything to the left of NewsMax or OAN is "too liberal" (yes that includes Fox News). The indoctrination is real
Or maybe they did. Seaseme Street might go over the heads of maga voters. And Mr Rodgers messages of inclusion and empathy are far out of their mental grasp.
If it's not their propaganda they think it is the other way... instead of ya know... just facts or basic learning.
It's Arkansas, what did you expect?
"Think"
Arkansas
Heh.
Most people are idiots and the bell curve isn’t as wide as you’d like to think.
Ah yes Arkansas, the beacon of education. Happy to keep their citizens illiterate and ignorant.
Like Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky...
At some point it’s pretty much the whole country. That’s a sad display right there.
Arkansas ranks 45 out of 51 states in education.
So, let's say the kid gets up at 6am. PBS listings:
Golly such offensive content. The kids might actually learn something on Sesame Street!
Kind and smart are just not MAGAt values
The fact that American taxpayers actually finance right-wing indoctrination to a considerable extent seems to be overlooked here, which is probably due to this very right-wing indoctrination.
How does the state have the power to prevent PBS from being broadcast? PBS is broadcast on affiliate stations that aren't owned by the state (usually)
AETN was the affiliate there, they cut ties. State is taking credit cause racing to the bottom is Arkansas to a T
This is stupid on so many levels. 
Its such an insignificant amount of money to fund PBS. It's mostly paid by donations and sponsors anyway. If they really wanted to save taxpayers money they should look elsewhere first... but thats a harder question that might rustle a few of their own feathers. Not only do they try to take the easiest route that doesn't involve their side, but they want to make people think it's a win. PBS isnt greasing their palms, so out it goes.
It has nothing to do with money.
PBS provide contrary content to right wing, that is why its a threat to them.
"Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of yourself" as per Goebbels
What platform is this? Interesting username formats.
Threads
When the orange rapist dies these freaks are going to keep dragging this nation down for the remainder of our lives.
The US is no longer one single country. One wonders when they will realize this.
I'm aware of at least one MAGA person with a kid who is like 10 and can't read.
with a kid who is like 10 and can’t read.
And is exposed to all the garbage and domestic violence.
The disparity between red and blue states keeps growing...
For anyone from Arkansas: disparity means contrast
(I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I know our Arkansas blue dots here on Lemmy aren't dummies)
I never realized just how fast all this shit would collapse.
It’s like when you strip the bark from a tree and find it rotted from the inside.
No, you understand. They're teach them kids to be GAY. To go in cat boxes and spread their trans, woke, DEI, Marxist, Socialist rainbows. Think of the children! /S
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I mean, education and kindness are indoctrination against them, but only because they espouse the doctrines of ignorance and hatred
So, Mr Rogers, Sesame Street, Nova... were all propaganda?
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