LMAO
That's Chase, the police dog. But be careful of Klaus, the secret police dog. He's also a German Shepard, but there's a heavy emphasis on the German part.
There's this cognitive dissonance that we don't need to police things made for children because no one would be so evil as to manipulate a child, but also we're constantly worrying about random people manipulating our children. Like.... Why don't we turn that scrutiny towards the corporations obviously manipulating our children for their own gain? Why isn't advertising to children banned as a form of brainwashing??
So many contradictions....
My kid started watching another talking vehicle show. The garbage trucks name? Stinky. Bulldozer? Dirty. And the Firetruck? Brave. There's a bunch of anthropomorphized propaganda shows out.
The lack of classism and bigotry in SpongeBob is always an appreciated. Really, all of its lessons were well thought out, between respecting yourself, respecting your friends, and learning to exploit the sexuality of the proletariat for money. Way ahead of its time.
They even made Mr. Krabs a halfway decent boss. Dude wants you to work while at work, then tells you to go home and leave him alone.
Even sends Sponge Bob to the doctor numerous times and tells him to take the day off.
It's been a beat since I watched... but Isn't Crabs the owner and Squidward the cashier/supervisor? That's how I perceived it and squidward doesn't give a fuck about anything except his clarinet and relaxing.
Do people (on Tumblr) think paw patrol is intentional propaganda? I would think it's much more likely that they just made a show with cute dogs with jobs that kids understand. Actually, does propaganda need to be intentional?
I believe the prevailing opinion is that it is subtly intentional but has more impact than intended because it is a reflection of the indoctrination of the writers, but I may be mistaken.
It may be created to intentionally teach children not to fear police and to obey the rules of society. Which sounds good on paper but can be really problematic.
It's not just Paw Patrol. It's every cop show that has messages of the cops always being on the side of "good". There are many many many articles and academic papers about "copaganda" that explain it better than I can.
I love pointing out problematic behavior in cop shows.
Those DAMN DEFENDANTS claiming they didn't do it when the good cops JUST KNOW they're guilty. The DAMN JUDGES always wanting EVIDENCE instead of just taking the cops at their word the alleged criminal dumped the drugs in the river.
How DARE they insist cops DO THEIR JOB. what's next, asking them to PUT THEIR LIVES AT RISK?
Usually it's more subtle like "they're complaining about being asked to do their jobs correctly, and these are the people we're supposed to be cheering for?" or "they fabricated evidence of one crime because they dropped the ball with another crime, and they're the good guys? If you say so..."
Some people might say I'm ruining a show, but come on... The show was already ruined. I'm just adjusting the picture so your rose tinted glasses get the right colors.
I think it's more in the line of no public services is totally fine, the city hands over police, firefighting and other services to this kid and his dogs. The mayor is barely competent to do her job without the kid's assistance. Which may also include racial stereotypes as she's black. Look at the show, there is no services. Every crisis is solved by a genius 10 year old and his bunch of dogs. Why do we need public services if everythung can be done by... Child labour?
I definitely agree with you in the broad strokes here, and was mostly looking at the definition of propaganda and seeing how easily a message can be subverted through relatively normal and innocent seeming mechanisms.
Edit: somehow I thought this was a reply to my comment.
"Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."
Hmm. 'Used to promote'.
So it can be produced unintentionally but used intentionally.
This doesn't answer your question but kicks the can down the road.
The producers may be making a cute show. Those funding and airing it may interfere in the process to mold the message.
It can be wholly innocent all along or turned malicious along the journey to the audience.
The next step is an episode where they call a black dog a thug and justify shooting it.
Intentional or not paw patrol always reeked of police state propaganda, so somehow calling the sanitation worker a mongerel fits with my expectations.
this is the medium article linked in the post: The Misogyny and Authoritarianism of ‘Paw Patrol’
That article gets cut off. I could remove it on my computer but I figured the archive would work.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong though. Whenever I scroll down the page gets reloaded.
Edit: I kept going back and eventually found a snapshot that worked https://web.archive.org/web/20190212082650/https://medium.com/s/story/paw-patrol-is-a-republican-dystopia-f178161fce54
Thank you dear person! You truly are a godsend!
Just want to express my thanks, saved me some time! :)
The first Paw Patrol movie is about a corrupt and incompetent mayor who accumulates too much power, wrongfully imprisons dogs, and must be stopped, for the good of the public. At least, that's how it's presented at first glance.
But if you peel back the layers, it's really about the elected leader in a two-party system, from the cat party, being overthrown by the dog party (note that all first responders seem to be from the same political party), for daring to put the dogs in obedience school (that is, requiring first responders to actually abide by the rules of their society). Worst part is that the mayor isn't even mayor of the same town - the dogs go to the next city over to overthrow that political leader, akin to some kind of cold war era foreign-orchestrated coup.
I thought someone might have already shared this...
It was in the comments on another post a few weeks ago and I ended up watching the whole thing.
Just what I was going to post! Thanks for sharing.
If all dogs go to heaven and all cops go to hell, then where do k9's go? Purgatory?
Real life ones go to heaven, they don't get to really choose to be tools for cops or understand the ramifications of their actions. Paw patrol dogs though go to hell.
Pawgatory
