Ben Shapiro is mad that kids like a cartoon dog, so his company The Daily Wire is debuting a right-wing alternative.
Someone saw how amazing and loving the Heeler family was and decided “this makes me mad, I’m going to make an intolerant version of this that fits my world view!”. Not to mention I can’t remember politics ever even coming up in bluey when I watch it with my kids.
Like every work of art, it’s full of politics:
- an equal-rights relationship, where both parents take responsibility for their children and housework
- children who are accepted like they are
- inclusive schools/kindergartens
- themes that touch on preserving nature, helping the disadvantaged and more
No wonder it triggers right-wingers.
Not to mention, it even caters to actual dogs! The colour scheme used was designed to only use colours that dogs can see.
I never heard that before. Very cool!
It’s one of those fake TikTok “facts” that’s only kind of true. The Heelers are blue/orange, which does work decently well with Deuteranopia (red-green color blindness), and is closest to what dogs’ vision is like. But it’s mostly just a coincidence, and there’s plenty of cases where scenes really don’t work well if you run them through a Deuteranopia filter, and Chili/Bingo really blend into the background a lot of the time.
I’ve never heard this before and don’t know if it’s true or not… but if you told me that Ben Shapiro and his ilk were absolutely furious it, I’d say that sounds a hundred percent on brand for them.
Are you sure you’re not thinking of sounds? IIRC, dogs see in monochrome.
That’s a myth. They can see a very limited palette of colors.
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Ben Shapiro is a cancerous colon wart.
That’s not fair to cancer.
I’m fine with that.
Yeah, at least cancer has the decency to not be contagious from one moron to another.
That’s not fair to colons or warts either. In fact, my colon feels devalued by your comment.
Everyone knows the dad is supposed to come home angry about what he’s listened to all day about the left, beat his wife and kids mercilessly to show them who’s really in charge, and not engage in any meaningful way with them at all before passing out drunk.
It’s as American as apple pie!
Which, coincidentally, isn’t even American.
Hey, we stole that from the Dutch, fair and square.
Politics came up. Politics is just a name for any way a group makes decisions. Families are groups and they need to make decisions. Any time a TV show explores the question of “how can a family get along with each other”, it’s textbook politics.
At this point, anything they call “the left” just seems like normal, rational, human-being stuff. Did nobody share their cookie with them in kindergarten? Are they still angry about that?
Whenever they say “woke” I filter it in my mind to “being a reasonable person.”
whenever they say “woke” it’s generally in the context of accepting that a black person or woman is currently speaking.
Leftists are woke and reactionaries are sleepy.
Sharing cookies is beta male wokeness!
It is hard not to be to the left of Republican Media groups since 2016 and everything that followed.
This is what happens once conservative politics has degenerated to literally “I’m an asshole, and there’s nothing you can do about it”, to crude dominance displays, performative cruelty and rolling coal. Not that it was much better, but at least the assholery used to need some sort of high-minded, principled rationalisation, rather than being self-justifying.
Self-justified assholery, or at least not caring if you’re being an asshole, would be an improvement, at least it’s a consistent world view based on self interest (see: Max Stirner and egoism). They’d still be assholes, but I can at least respect the owning up to it.
When you think you’re justified in being an asshole because you’re not actually an asshole you’re great actually it’s those scary people who are coming here to attack you and your sacred way of life, that is definitely not made up and you’re entitled to, who are wrong, you’re just defending yourself and your people (you’re a hero actually), that’s when you start buying alpha male supplements and yelling at cartoon dogs.
As an Australian I can confirm I have nfi what the daily wire’s bluey knock off is
As an American, from the Daily Wire’s home country, neither do I. And I don’t have a young child, but I know who Bluey is.
As another Australian, I think Disney needs to beat the living shit out of them with a DMCA hammer.
In case didn’t already hate Ben Shapiro by now, the dude hates Bluey
BLUEY
It really doesn’t get any sadder than this
Not only does he hate Bluey, he hates Bluey so much that he decided to spend a substantial amount of money to make Not-Bluey.
I just found another, more detailed article about the show. Rob Schneider is starring in it, so you know it’s good.
Rob Schneider
Ewww. I remembered he exists.
Rob Schneider, the guy who starred in an entire movie with the plot being him having swapped minds with a woman and being stuck in her body? That Rob Schneider?
He sure put in a performance… of some sort… in Norm of the North.
Amazing self-own when you admit that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies
I mean, it’s totally a self own. The thing is though, republicans as a whole are putting forth a decades long concentrated effort to villify schools and schooling. They know that public exposure and education leads to left leaning opinions, even for kids raised in strictly right households, and even through the young adult phase into college.
The conversation has been so warped for republicans and their conservative base that what sounds like a self own to a regular person is just another truth. It doesn’t even sound strange to them.
So while it is a self own to anyone with a shred of sense, it’s also a terrifying sign of the times and a serious foundational threat for our young generation.
…and this is very likely the last time you’ll ever hear about Chip Chilla.
I wonder how successful these counter mainstream efforts will be. There’s a market for crazy Christian movies etc, I imagine there will be a similar one for parents terrified of reality.
Yeah, but Bluey? That’s like being terrified of Mr. Rogers. This is a failure for the same reason it would be a failure if you decided Mr. Rogers wasn’t mean enough so you made your own show with a similar guy but mean.
What aren’t they terrified of? But Rupert didn’t go so far as saying, “we need to make the anti-Bluey now!”
Giving kids conditional love is how you get narcissists. Kids need to receive unconditional love in order to develop an intrinsic sense of self worth. You need to tell them they’re special. If you tell them they need to be perfect in order to receive love, they’ll develop a self-perfection complex and be narcissists.
I think the biggest thing is these people feel threatened. Blueys parents are better parents than they ever will be. All i can think k about is the episode Flatpack where bandit says, “I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog”.
His parents are definitely better than me. There’s no way I can devote that much energy to parenting while holding a full time job. I wish I could, but that’s not the world we live in.
Bluey is the shit! How can anyone not love Bluey?
Not enough propoganda, id imagine
Something something grooming kids, what’s irony mean?
Knee replacement surgery
Lessons from chilli.
Don’t hold hands with the gerbils chilli, they’ll make you dirty.
No, you see chilli, your friend goes to school hungry because their father doesn’t work hard enough, they deserve it.
If you’re good, daddy will take you the range where we can take turns playing with his brand new gun!
One presumes the breed of the family will be German Shepherds.
Literally says in the articles thats its chinchillas but I get you meant it as a joke.
Heres a (crappy) video that shows a bit of the art, looks super similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4F1Yg9hBg
this reminds me of when my parents got us mail order vhs tapes from feature films for families and came across a movie called the buttercream gang and was supposed to hate the kid pete who joined a gang in chicago (lol not too obvious, especially since he was latino) and basically thought he was the coolest and i wanted to be his friend so much :P
Can someone sue on behalf of all chinchillas for the show being derogatory to all chinchillas?
The sheer audacity of the chinchillas lacking hispanic accents. Did no-one working for the show look up where chinchillas are from?
Which is more offensive: that none of the chinchillas have Latin accents, or that the father is voiced by Rob Fucking Schneider?
You know what’s wild? We all thought Rob Schneider was gonna be. The sellout making weird movies forever a out being random things.
Well Adam Sandler is now the class iguana that solves all the kids problems in his new movie and Schneider is just a sad loser schilling for conservatives. Somehow the future ended up a full step even sadder than imagined.
