| | |This popular children's series, based on the eponymous books by Marc Brown and set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, follows the daily life of the titular aardvark, his family, and his friends. It managed to be apolitical for almost 23 years before Arthur's third and fourth-grade teacher, Mr. Ratburn, was rewritten as homosexual and "married" to a man in the season 22 episode "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone", likely in a desperate bid to revive public interest in a program past its prime. Local Alabama and Arkansas TV stations banned the episode for that reason. In a particularly distasteful example of a children's franchise's creator putting his personal political views above whether the content is actually appropriate for the intended age bracket, Marc Brown condemned both states for banning the episode.<ref>https://people.com/tv/alabama-pulls-arthur-gay-wedding-episode-marc-brown-responds/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=peoplemagazine</ref> In another shallow attempt to keep this age-old series culturally relevant, the Web-exclusive episode titled "Arthur on Racism: Talk, Listen, And Act", which was published in August of 2020, encourages its target age bracket to support the violent and culturally [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[Black Lives Matter]] movement and guilt them into thinking they are "racist" for not doing so.<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/08/arthur-on-pbs-indoctrinates-kids-with-blm-propaganda/114291/</ref> This all eventually came to a head by February 2022, as the show ended up cancelled as of that date.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/01/25/pbs-kids-officially-ending-arthur-after-pushing-woke-blm-lgbtq-propaganda/</ref> | | |This popular children's series, based on the eponymous books by Marc Brown and set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, follows the daily life of the titular aardvark, his family, and his friends. It managed to be apolitical for almost 23 years before Arthur's third and fourth-grade teacher, Mr. Ratburn, was rewritten as homosexual and "married" to a man in the season 22 episode "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone", likely in a desperate bid to revive public interest in a program past its prime. Local Alabama and Arkansas TV stations banned the episode for that reason. In a particularly distasteful example of a children's franchise's creator putting his personal political views above whether the content is actually appropriate for the intended age bracket, Marc Brown condemned both states for banning the episode.<ref>https://people.com/tv/alabama-pulls-arthur-gay-wedding-episode-marc-brown-responds/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=peoplemagazine</ref> In another shallow attempt to keep this age-old series culturally relevant, the Web-exclusive episode titled "Arthur on Racism: Talk, Listen, And Act", which was published in August of 2020, encourages its target age bracket to support the violent and culturally [[Marxism|Marxist]] [[Black Lives Matter]] movement and guilt them into thinking they are "racist" for not doing so.<ref>https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2020/08/arthur-on-pbs-indoctrinates-kids-with-blm-propaganda/114291/</ref> This all eventually came to a head by February 2022, as the show ended up cancelled as of that date.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/01/25/pbs-kids-officially-ending-arthur-after-pushing-woke-blm-lgbtq-propaganda/</ref> |
| | + | |This acclaimed series is loved by many, but it dives into eastern mysticism involving chakras which is used in Hinduism, and the creators are proud of its subversive elements, and even more so in its sequel series, ''The Legend of Korra.'' |