Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
by humanrebar on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:07AM
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> In US they had Captain America so it balances out.
There is still a lot of propaganda in media for children. It's just not (obviously) pro government propaganda anymore. But I recall Bubble Guppies including descriptions of police as (my words) grown up hall monitors. No guns. No power of arrest. The monopoly on the use of force is basically the point of police forces. To elide that and teach about sirens and traffic tickets is a bit... overly sanitized.
There is still a lot of propaganda in media for children. It's just not (obviously) pro government propaganda anymore. But I recall Bubble Guppies including descriptions of police as (my words) grown up hall monitors. No guns. No power of arrest. The monopoly on the use of force is basically the point of police forces. To elide that and teach about sirens and traffic tickets is a bit... overly sanitized.