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It’s come to this: Kindergarten Cop, a banal 1990 comedy-action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a police detective who masquerades as a teacher, has been canceled and likened to the explicitly racist silent film Birth of a Nation.
Kindergarten Cop was slated to kick off Portland’s Northwest Film Center’s Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater on August 6 until critics led by local author Lois Leveen said the PG-13 movie promoted a “school-to-prison pipeline,” according to the Willamette Week.
Kindergarten Cop Is Canceled, Likened to Birth of a Nation
Oh yes, you read the headline right.
In an email to Willamette Week, Leveen likened the Schwarzenegger vehicle to Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind:
“It’s true Kindergarten Cop is only a movie. So are Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind, but we recognize films like those are not ‘good family fun.’…They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions. Because despite what the movie shows…in reality, schools don’t transform cops. Cops transform schools, and in an extremely detrimental way.”
Having seen both films, you need to have hit your daily limit of Xanax and boxed wine to come up with this comparison. If anything Kindergarten Cop is a small tribute to teachers within an action/humor movie. But leave it to a Cancel Commissar to come up with a slanted opinion formed possibly in the haze of chemical influence (because otherwise reasonable can’t see how) and kick the movie out of the festival.
In the meantime, people voting with their TV remotes have murdered two of the wokest shows that graced the small screen this last season. You guys already know about Deputy being given the cancellation axe, but I just found out that the reboot of Party of Five (AKA Undocumented Alien Blues) has been also sent to the TV graveyard. At the end of the day, TV companies cannot justify wasting money on shows nobody watch.
Or you can blame it all in the country’s systemic racism or some other idiotic excuse.
Update: Eli over in Facebook made the following comment that needs to be taking in consideration:
I’m shocked that they didn’t “cancel” Kindergarten Cop simply because of the boy who said “Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.”.
Damn, he might be right
Yep, couldn’t POSSIBLY be crappy show, must be Duh Deplorables!
RMESHISMB.
On the other hand, could not one say that a story about a school transforming a cop is an aspirational, uplifting tale?
If anything, Kindergarten Cop is about a good teacher who actively tries to better the lives of his students.
But he’s a cop, so therefore he must be bad/racist.
So… Karen Cancel said…“…in reality, schools don’t transform cops. Cops transform schools, and in an extremely detrimental way.”
Which means she is canceling a movie NOT because of what the movie says/shows, but because it is not showing what she thinks is reality? What about showing something like Class of 1984, The Principal, or other school based movies. Are they OK because they show what inner city hellholes are really like?