Posted on 12/27/2017 7:47:03 AM PST by MtnClimber
A conservative cynic from birth, I foolishly thought I had seen it all when it came to leftist madness. But then I saw, posted on CNN’s website, “Why kids love 'fascist' cartoons like 'Paw Patrol' and 'Thomas'.” The article referenced several other articles that described Thomas as “a premodern corporate-totalitarian dystopia,” “imperialist racist and sinister,” and “classist, sexist, and anti-environmentalist.”
This caught my attention because my six-year-old boy -- like children all over the world -- loves stories of Thomas the Train. I recently took my children to Thomasland in Massachusetts and now my boy wants to visit the Thomasland in Japan. The Thomas cartoon is so popular that 1 billion dollars of merchandise related to the show is sold every year.
Reverend Wilbert Audrey, creator of Thomas the Train, has recounted how, when his 3-year-old son was ill with the measles, he told him stories about trains. Audrey says that in his own childhood he had to read boring books about perfect children so that he would learn from their moral example. He decided to write interesting books about engines with human characteristics in a fictional island he called Sodor. The trains would push the envelope until they got in trouble, be punished, and after making amends would be “bought back into the family so to speak.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think I am going to watch some more 1950s Gumby with my kids tonight.
It’s Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood now - all animated.
I haven’t had time to watch any of it.
But it’s “Thomas The Tank Engine,” not “Thomas the Train.”
Yes, he is a train.
Tracks are too restrictive. The trains need to be free! Let the trains run in meadows. Who is the engineer to say trains run on TWO tracks? Why not 3? Why not 57? Why have tracks at all?
I would call Thomas the train sexist, but that would suggest there IS such a thing as sex. Where is the boy train who wants to be a female train, or the train who refuses to be either?
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