I stumbled upon this article and thought it was interesting in the sense that I thought it was worth discussing what kinds of stories/characters we introduce our children to. I was raised on Thomas The Tank Engine and can't understand how anyone could find it objectionable, but that makes me think: If Thomas is bad, what do trendy progressive parents think is good entertainment for their children?
So, why would leftist parents hate Thomas the Tank Engine?
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From what I remember growing up, it had good moral messages, so not suprising leftist anti western culture communists would despise it.
They hate everything which is wholesome
USE ARCHIVES.
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I liked Thomas but didn't they (((diversify))) it with some new trains recently?
I also recalled from memory that there are a lot of storylines in Thomas that would probably piss progressives off.
>Why Communists are bad, dishonest people
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>Minority comes to the railway and causes trouble
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Because it was actual diversity is our strength. Many different trains, with different purposes.
anyone who hates thomas the tank engine, Mr. Rodgers, or Mr. Conductor, is a worthless piece of shit, a literal dumpster fire of a human being.
Mr. Rogers wouldn't want you to talk like that
Also they bricked up the fucked up trains.
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i know, im not even using my indoor voice ir removed my shoes. im such a failure.
>Being a useful engine is what makes life worth while.
>There is respect for the Fat Controller, not contempt
>If your special snowflake pride prevents you from being efficient, you will be punished and walled off from the rest of society.
If you think about it, that whole story arc is about Christian morality
>Henry sins by refusing to come out of the tunnel
>Sir Topham Hatt ("God") punishes him by bricking him up
>Henry is sorry
>Sir Topham Hatt forgives him and lets him pull trains again
Bear in mind that the creator was an English reverend and thought of morality as being like a railway line (A straight path with consequences if you go off the rails)
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wow just noticed this, watched all of those links over again. kekekekke
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MY RIGHTS
Modern Thomas is not old Thomas. They went full Pokemon years ago, and added eleventy billion new engines just to sell more toys. The original books were reasonable, as were the early television episodes. But the modern stories are utterly banal. They've spent a decade or two barfing out thoughtless content, and it has little merit.
what do trendy progressive parents think is good entertainment for their children?
I grew up with Thomas, as I recall the show was excellent especially considering that since the trains lacked animated faces and so had to drive the relationships with narrative and story telling rather than flashy displays. Messages about recognizing your purpose and striving for the goal even through hardships and setbacks. All the original engines were extremely well defined and further than having different rolls, had massively different personalities and perspectives. I recall one aside episode not focused on main characters depicting the life of an older side branch railroad locomotive. Early on in that episode one newer engine caused substantial trouble on the railroad and I kid you not was parted out to a boiler, forced to sit on the side of the rails and watch the complete locomotives but never to move again. As shows go this is a first rate children's show, not sure about newer episodes but I can see why liberals dislike it.
New symbol of hate when?
Absolutely, strong religious component. Also liked how George Carlin and Ringo Starr were in a kids show
Thomas teaches kids good morals and the power of working together as a unit in a controlled system rather than striving to "bee ur self" and go against the current, undermining society, like a lot of liberal program's teach. Not to mention that shitty people always have horrible things happen to them as consequence for disobedience or just generally being a piece of prideful shit, usually resulting in a character being thrown off the rails in a crash, removing them from the efficient system as punishment for their acts. This can be found in additionally in the words of Sir Topham Hatt, who sees these incidents as causing confusion and delay in an ideal system through selfishness, pride, fear, or many other human vices that we see represented in the trians, and sometimes other machine constructs such as Cranky the Crane.
Additionally, despite being a show only about fucking trains, Thomas is one of the most diverse childrens shows on the market. You have big trains, small trains, old trains, young trains, all of which have their own unique role to play in the "system", with a constant moral in the shows stories being that trains are bound by their physical traits and are unable to do rolls outside them, so they should seek to thrive within their own talents. There's foreign trains who's characters rely heavily on that factor when it comes to their characters in the show, but it's never forced. There's also alegories that can be made with being disabled with the character Henry, who relies on special fuel to function despite being mostly like the other engines, and is not treated differently because of this.
Probably because it's a pretty fucked up show
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This could make for some excellent fashy propaganda
Because it was written by an Anglican priest, I imagine.
They hate anything that is good, and love everything that is evil and vile.
Liberals base their entire lives around causing confusion and delay.
>mfw lefties hate thomas
>what i say to them
Because Thomas isn't promoting their idea of coal burning.
>this is the fifth result when you Google image search "island of sodor flag"
1980s Thomas was great, it's been shit since the 90s though. Thanks a lot Britt Allcroft
Ernest thinks Stevie is a Nazi
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>actions have consequences
>fucked up
Pick one
Even a few years ago I would have laughed at your comment.
But now? I think you may be right.
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I've alsways seen that reaction image but now that I've seen the source... wtf
>that ending where the narrator says Herny deserved every second of agony
>that part where the narrator asks the audience if they agree
>that part where Sir Toppinhat was a lazy piece of shit and made passengers try to budge the car while excusing himself because of "doctor's orders"
>that part where Henry is sorry for his actions but everyone mocks him as they drive by long enough for his paint to chip away
YYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
you're a bin mate
Speaking of the books, have they been (((sanitised))) like a lot of classic children's literature?
Shed 17 is the stuff of nightmares.
Thomas is a cis-scum tank engine.
They're all about tranny trains now -- it's 2017 get with the program.
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REEEEEEE RINGO/UK OR GTFO
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this is the man who will be on the TV if i choose to even have it on when i have kids
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Always running on two tracks. Why not 3 tracks? Why not 4? Why not 1?
Such hateful bigotry.
>tfw Rudolf the Breitspurbahn never guest starred
They removed the phrase "The boys ran off as black as niggers" from Henry's Sneeze in the 70s
>Also they bricked up the fucked up trains.
You could say they built a wall.
This
Rev. Awdry was pretty much the epitome of a virtuous Christian.
How did they talk the lead singer of the Beatles and one of America's foulest comedian into being voice actors for a kids show anyway?
lol I have an original edition of the book with that.
Pic related. Children like dinosaurs don't they?
>those last ten seconds of cheery music as it zooms into his suffering
god damn.
>that part where Sir Toppinhat was a lazy piece of shit and made passengers try to budge the car while excusing himself because of "doctor's orders"
I wonder if it was intentional reversal, would be surprising for a show like this.
Most shows were basically, "If you work hard and get along with your co-workers, you'll be rewarded. If you fuck off and are dick, we might wall you up in a tunnel somewhere for a couple of years or knock your wheels off and turn you into a stationary power plant or something. So work hard and don't be a dick." Can't imagine why Liberals hate it. Pic is a real steam powered Thomas at Strausberg Railroad.
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Lead singer.
He was drummer.
Someone once asked John Lennon if Ringo was the best drummer in the world Lennon replied with "he is'nt even the best drummer in the Beatles"
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I guess, but all the engines are historic from different countries. It's not like they introduced a purple engine that thought was a diesel even when it was obviously a steam engine.
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George Carlin can describe it better than I can
Wtf? I loved that show. What the hell is wrong with libshits?
Because it acknowledges the technological differences and capabilities between the different engines?
The most recent episodes have gotten better, and don't seem to cater to autists anymore that much.
This.
The Britbong narrator has always been superior to the Americlap one, specially the later seasons when the US one just sounded fucking bored and monotonous.
Thomas the tank engine represents order, duty, morals, tradition and the purity of the train race, It shall be our new fascist symbol.
HAIL THOMAS, HAIL TANK ENGINES, HAIL VICTORY
Jesus Christ, reading the guardian is like reading the journal of a neurotic schizo who thinks the KKK are hiding in his garden shed waiting to kill them.
She was actually insinuating the use of white steam from 'good' engines and black smoke from 'bad' engines was racist. This is what the left has come to.
Because it promotes working hard and respect for authority.
I loved thomas as a kid and my parents wasted a shit ton of money on them for me and I came out redpilled. Coincidence? Possible, but not likley.
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Why was there a US dub in the first place?
>he doesn't like steve-o universe
Greg is the ideal dad.
>tfw my little brothers ovened my favorite train as a kid
Wtf! I love Thomas now!
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The Fat Controller laughed.
"Because you'd be in jail."
too white. we wuz trains n shieet. tyrone the train now that would be bigger than dora the undocumented explorer
need i remind that the one train that was evil/hated was a BLACK DIESEL
>Ernest thinks stevie is a Nazi
Hadn't seen this one yet. Thanks.
seen all of these you almost made me fall out of my chair in laughter
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Wtf I love Thomas now.
The originals had anti socialist messages that went as far as even being anti Union
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>Thomas the Chav engine
HOLY SHIT
SHUNT THE DIESELS
TRAIN WAR NOW
>Poor Henry had no steam to answer
>His fire had gone out
He have no mouth and must scream
Are you me?
Is Thomas the Tank Engine redpill in disguise?
>tfw there was never a Deutschland episode
what would the jew carriage train character be called?
we are siamese brothers
connected spiritually at the dick
>Thomas the Tank Engine on TV since 1984
>Chuggington 2008 - 2015
Chuggingtonfags BTFO!
They'd rather let their children watch cancer like this
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>lollrandomXD
>inb4 "you just hate it because you're old"
This crap kills brain cells and turns kids into zombies who can't think for themselves (that's the answer to your question)
My sister would let her kids watch these kinds of shows 24/7
Those kids seem to become increasingly more retarded by the day
Every time I see them and I get frustrated when I try to talk to them
Shows that teach morals, educational shows, etc. just aren't cool anymore
mr rogers is a close second to the bible for source of morals
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fuck my covers been blown
Never head of this before but the title of the show alone made me say wtf.
i always remember that the diesel engines where based
Ive watched the show with my little brother and the trains who portray bad behavior always suffer consequences for their actions. So this makes no sense.
In the European original he is kept there for good.
They should love British trains ...
Always confusion and delay.
>Pic is a real steam powered Thomas at Strausberg Railroad.
Oh shit, thanks user. I thought pic was a Ford F250 someone put a fiberglass Thomas the tank over and was rolling coal at Strausberg Railroad with.
thomas the tank engine was my favourite show when I was a kid
I was looking for this. I had these saved.
Personally I prefer Theodore the Tugboat.
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