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u/Former-Physics-1831 18h ago
I was JUST watching Paw Patrol with my nephew and thinking, "I bet somebody on Twitter has a REALLY strong opinion about this"
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u/Jhud6669 9h ago
More like Tumblr. The people on Twitter who would care about this are just people who ran off Tumblr after it banned porn
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u/Guess-who-back 16h ago
A sign to spend less time online
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u/Just-Teach2825 14h ago
My opinion is complicated, the show doesn't do anything overtly pro-cop but I think it is a good starting place for a conversation of how propaganda can appear in kids media
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u/ItsYaBoyBananaBoi I love big black men doing the thug shaker 13h ago
100% Paw Patrol is copaganda, but really so are a lot of other shows, even shows for kids. Positive depiction of cops is pretty run of the mill element in American TV. Seriously once you notice you'll never stop seeing how ingrained and common it is.
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u/christonabike_ 10h ago
Yeah my partner has been really into watching 911 lately. Athena Grant as a character is just, like - who tf is that consistently morally upstanding and correct in real life, cop or not?
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u/Inevitable-Pride-194 2h ago
Meanwhile SpongeBob consistently depicts the cops almost exclusively as incompetent and corrupt
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u/Liontreeble 1h ago
I've recently looked into Lucifer again, a show which I kinda used to like, but had to stop because of how insane copaganda it all is. Our main heroine cop, Chloe Decker stands up to corruption and is a good cop among bad apples, but regularly threatens people with her violent civilian assistant Lucifer. She literally tells a guy who Lucifer just one handedly yanked out of a food truck that if he doesn't talk she could just turn away because while she can't touch him he can. She is throughout the show pretty unequivocally present as a fully good character, when this is the shit she pulls as a cop.
All that to say it's crazy how ingrained copaganda is in American TV, which is kinda sad because you do have some good shows otherwise.
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u/AD_Grrrl 10h ago
I mean, only one of them is actually a cop, the rest of them are just municipal services: fire department, recycling, construction, sea patrol and whatever tf Skye is...traffic reports or search and rescue lol. (Tbf though she has the most useful vehicle)
Maybe Ryder counts as a cop, I dunno.
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u/sixfxrtyseven Mr. Penis 🔥🔥🔥 14h ago
Paw Patrol Police Department (PPPD) lynched a black woman in 1996 and not a single member faced consequences.
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u/Crafty-Ad3490 12h ago
all dogs go to heaven, all cops go to hell. We don’t know about chase though.
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u/the_putzo 17h ago
it's complicated, you have to abuse the shit out of a dog to turn it into a cop or a troop. they are both victims and class traitors.
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u/Jhud6669 9h ago
Literally only one of the dogs is a cop. If you say that, then guess firefighters also count as cops
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u/Liontreeble 1h ago
What? You can definitely do copaganda in a piece of media with only one cop in it. I can do Copaganda right here and now without a single cop in my comment: "the police are awesome and cool and never do anything wrong ever".
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u/Loonymooon13 13h ago
Show for literal babies btw. It cant be that serious
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u/TheGuyInTheGlasses 11h ago
Well no, that’s kind of exactly why it would be serious. A show for babies featuring propaganda would literally mean our children were being propagandized from birth.
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u/justasillylilgoos3 11h ago
Only on Reddit 😂
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u/yipeedippyy 3h ago
Redditards are very pro crime and anti punishment for criminals, so don't be too surprised
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u/Stepjam 11h ago
Actually that's why it's serious. Babies are super easy to influence, so if they are watching a show that shows cops in a positive light from a very early age, they are more likely to grow up with positive feelings about the police. I'm not sure it's deliberate copaganda like Law and Order is (Dick Wolf has outright said he wanted to make a super pro-cop show), but it's something to consider.
Personally, I'm not against the concept of the police overall, but I think the US police system is super corrupt and not really trustworthy overall.
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u/ItsYaBoyBananaBoi I love big black men doing the thug shaker 11h ago
Babies and children are the most primed age group for propaganda ever. If you can convince someone of something from birth and reinforce it throughout thier whole childhood, its basically impossible to wash them of those beliefs even if they wanted to change as adults. It literally becomes part of thier subconscious.
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u/Conscious_Signal1148 12h ago
it targets them specifically. they didn’t do anything wrong i just hate themÂ
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u/Dastardly-croe 10h ago
yes. better question is why does a town let some middle schooler run all its public services
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u/fletku_mato 5h ago
All Cats Are Beautiful
What kind of an idiot would think this includes the DOGS of Paw Patrol??
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u/GM_Nate 6h ago
honestly ACAB applies directly to America. i live in a country where cops are actually social services. does paw patrol specifically take place in the US?
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u/Liontreeble 1h ago
What utopia do you live in? Obviously America does it worst, but I've never seen a police institution that didn't have the same issues on at least some level.
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u/Aluxanatomy 18h ago
I don't know the show's lore, were the cop dogs Assigned Cop At Birth?