Posted on 12/27/2019 1:39:39 PM PST by Morgana
Salon’s politics writer Amanda Marcotte has been putting 110% into being the Grinch this Christmas. On Christmas day, she followed up her attack on Christians who wish each other "Merry Christmas," by directly comparing Hallmark Channel Christmas specials to Nazi propaganda.
Marcotte called the normal Hallmark fare “the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda.”
She could just say “Bah Humbug!” and leave it at that, instead of coming off as a lunatic.
But no, the far left Salon reporter had to exact her revenge on the cable TV network after it courted controversy for pulling an ad from Zola featuring a lesbian wedding. Though Hallmark reversed that decision, the offense against diversity cried out for justice and Marcotte obliged, ripping into the network with a piece titled, “Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda.”
Say what you will about Hallmark. Its traditional holiday programming sure isn’t pushing any cinematic or philosophical boundaries. Though Marcotte decided to take her critique and add a new dimension of outrage, calling the traditional family content they offer out for having a “white, heretonormative” agenda on the level of infamous Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
Marcotte wrote the Hallmark’s “schedule of Christmas movie offerings is like a trip into an uncanny valley of shiny-teethed, blow-dried heteronormative whiteness, with only a few token movies with characters of color.”
It’s no secret that Hallmark makes films for a traditional, family friendly audience, or more specifically, geared to conservative women. But to call it the “platonic ideal of fascist propaganda” is a bit much, no?
Well that’s what one gets when they don’t cater to the LGBTQs (initially) and prioritize the joy of family and Christmas tradition, (which we all know Marcotte absolutely loathes.)
She continued, making dramatic comparisons between Hallmark movies and Third Reich propaganda. “When most of us think about fascistically propagandistic movies, we think of the grotesque grandeur of Leni Riefenstahl's films celebrating the Third Reich.” But for Marcotte, it’s in Hallmark’s emphasis on comfort and “normality” that makes it just as evil.
“But the reality is, even in Nazi Germany, the majority of movies approved by the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, were escapist and feather-light, with a Hallmark movie-style emphasis on the importance of ‘normality.’”
Oh geez. That’s a level of insidiousness that’s been percolating under our noses for quite some time it seems. Marcotte said it herself, “Still, it's critical to be mindful of the role that Hallmark movies are actually playing in our society. The very fact that they're presented as harmless fluff makes it all the more insidious.”
And to think, the viewers who happily watch these films are out in the world.
Terrifying.
LOL, I’ll tell my wife she’s a gaddam Nazi.
Merry Christmas Amanda!
Hallmark movies are all that she said but they are a guilty pleasure for me. I’ve taped about ten during the season and they are predictable but well done. Sometimes I have to watch TV when I can’t sleep and they are perfect.
Okay, Amanda, so they are “fascist propaganda”. What does that shame label even mean?
Powerful stuff. Yawnnnn....
Yah,except when they show ads feature two perverts fornicating in front of a primary school.
Hallmark thought they could please the left once they were already hated. When will people learn???
People who never fought real fascist seem to think being too white or slightly a prude is being fascistic.
Fascism and racism are alike you see.
If you are white and see race: racism (and therefore fascism)
If you are white and don’t see race: you are denying racism which makes you racist
Aloof from culture? Exclusivist therefore racist
Partake of the culture? Cultural appropriation therefore racist
Move out? White flight is racist
Move in? Gentrification is racist
And so forth ... all of these things are also gonna get you labeled fascist sooner or later too
I think this Marcotte person is genuinely demented.
Just my opinion, of course.
mindless cretin
I would call the woman sophomoric in need of getting a life but sophomoric might be a little too advanced for her simple mind
don’t forget, libs project.........................
Is there some kind of contest liberal writers are in to see who can find the most things to be irate about?
I'm going to be the guy in a plaid shirt (and a dog) who travels to Amanda's hometown in which I will make her fall in love with me. I will get her to like Christmas and she will become my happy housewife.
All you hetero white people need to leave immediately. LOL.
Lol. She’ll banish you to Hell for saying that. Ha! I think they should study OWN and explain the lack of diversity in that network. I like some of the folksy hallmark films. I didn’t agree with them firing Lori Laughlin before even a trial, but it is their choice. Hallmark like chick Fil a will have to realize you can’t make everyone happy.
You all are missing the message. She’s projecting.
I wish her the same - maybe it'll help drive the demons out.
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