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Netflix Kids Show Will Teach Children About Evils Of Donald Trump
The Huffington Post ^ | June 17, 2016 | Todd Van Luling

Posted on 06/17/2016 11:44:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

If you’ve been worried that there isn’t an easy enough way to help your kids understand the thorny issues of overt racism championed by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Netflix — as it often does — has a show for you.

The Emmy-winning Netflix original show “All Hail King Julien,” based on the popular DreamWorks movie-series “Madagascar,” debuts its third season Friday. And there’s an episode about Trump.

Although the King Julien character was not originally intended to be a Trump parody in the “Madagascar” universe, the show’s creators decided the royal lemur could be a perfect teaching tool for the perilous evil of the similarly small-handed candidate.

“DreamWorks and Netflix have been very supportive about the kind of stories we wanted to tell on the show,” showrunner Mitch Watson told The Huffington Post over email. “We specifically wanted stories that had some kind of social satire.”

In an exclusive clip provided to HuffPost, King Julien’s supporters chant for a wall to be built around their land to keep out foreign animals. King Julien stokes their anger and encourages the idea. As if they’re more racist versions of Snow White’s seven dwarfs....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2016election; allhailkingjulien; antitrump; demagogicparty; democrats; election2016; hillaryclinton; immigration; madagascar; mediabias; memebuilding; netflix; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump; trumpparody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Found this interesting bit of propaganda at Target the other day...nice placement on the shelf, too. :)


21 posted on 06/18/2016 9:32:49 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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