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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: What do Palestinians see on TV?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:54:16 -0400
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On 2025-03-13 5:44 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 3/13/2025 5:31 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2025-03-13 4:08 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>> On 3/13/2025 1:01 PM, Rhino 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.
>>>
>>> Yes, overtly impolitic material won't get aired. But it's Sesame Street.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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. It's 
>>>> like you're looking for *any* excuse to keep the hate-programming in 
>>>> place for fear that the kids won't learn to hate Jews if the hateful 
>>>> shows aren't aired any more.
>>>
>>> I assume that TV production-values have noticeably advanced in 40 years.
>>>
>>>
>> So you're going to continue this ultra-feeble rationalization for not 
>> showing older programs on the grounds that Palestinian children would 
>> be offended at not seeing the programs in glorious 8K and have to 
>> settle with the older standards? THAT is the compelling reason not to 
>> show Sesame Street in Gaza or the West Bank?
>>
>> You're beyond ridiculous!
> 
> No, I'm saying (and thanks for asking) there might be worthwhile purpose 
> to gussying up the Sesame Street repertoire.  But you keep pedaling.
> 
> 

What compelling reason to "gussy up" those shows could there possibly be 
other than refilling the coffers of whatever Democratic operatives get 
most of the money from any of these initiatives?

-- 
Rhino