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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: What do Palestinians see on TV?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:09:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mar 13, 2025 at 10:01:27 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> On 2025-03-13 11:06 AM, moviePig wrote:
>>  On 3/12/2025 11:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>  On Mar 12, 2025 at 7:28:48 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  On 3/12/2025 6:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>    On Mar 12, 2025 at 3:20:12 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>    On 3/12/2025 4:14 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>      Have you ever wondered what kind of TV programming is offered 
>>>>>>>  in the
>>>>>>>      Palestinian enclaves like Gaza and the West Bank? It turns out 
>>>>>>>  that
>>>>>>>      instruction on how and when to beat your wife is a regular 
>>>>>>>  topic there,
>>>>>>>      as we see in this video:
>>>>>>>      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYhwtn5wcI [11 minutes]
>>>>>>>      Yes, even misogyny has rules, as we see in this video.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    Perhaps this why USAID finances foreign versions of 'Sesame Street'.
>>>>>    Instead of just over-dubbing the 40 years of shows we already have 
>>>>>  in Arabic
>>>>>    and saving the taxpayers millions of dollars.
>>>> 
>>>>  I don't know that dubbed 40-year-old shows would appeal to Gazan kids.
>>> 
>>>  Why not? At least 90% of the characters on the show are puppets, so there
>>>  wouldn't even be lip-synching issues.
>>  
>>  I suppose it's possible that those dubbed old shows happen to be exactly 
>>  suited to today's Gazan kids, but I'm guessing we could do better.
>>  
>>  
> 
> Those 40 year old shows could teach them to read, count, tell time, or 
> countless other things that we (or our children) learned from those same 
> shows. Of course I'm speaking of shows like Sesame Street more than 
> superhero cartoons. But Palestinian leaders don't WANT to live in peace 
> with their neighbours: they blame all their problems on the Jews and 
> simply want to exterminate them. Teaching the newest generations to hate 
> is fundamental to them and the perpetuation of their ideas as it was to 
> Hitler or the various Communist dictators.
> 
> You use the incredibly lame "argument" that those shows are old, as if 
> that invalidates their message, as if learning to read, or count or tell 
> time isn't just as relevant as it was 40 years ago.

I recently read that a testing center had to take down all the clocks in the
examination rooms and replace them with digital clocks because so many of the
GenZers can't tell time on a traditional clock anymore.