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Salon’s Marcotte: ‘Hallmark Movies Are Fascist Propaganda’
mrcNewsbusters ^ | Dec, 26, 2019, | Gabriel Hays

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.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amandamarcotte; hallmark; marcotte
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To: BenLurkin; Morgana
I think this Marcotte person is genuinely demented.

I disagree. She is a troll. She knows darn well that such utterances will trigger some conservatives, and thus she seems to thrive on this claptrap. Indeed, there are three articles on Ms Marcotte's utterances on FR just today.

She's a sort of low-budget leftist Milo without the brains. Ignore her and she'll wither and die.

21 posted on 12/27/2019 1:58:25 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Morgana

I have seen a few of them. Not great but not bad either.

Fairly bland, not much to get excited about. I think mainly aimed at women.


22 posted on 12/27/2019 1:59:38 PM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Morgana

23 posted on 12/27/2019 2:01:10 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Morgana
LOL. My significant other loves them. I've come to like them too. They aren't stressful and always have a happy ending.

Now Lifetime movies are another story: stalkers, wife beaters, two-timing boy friends, etc. etc. It's all about how horrible men are. When she puts on the Lifetime channel I go up to the bedroom and watch Tom and Jerry cartoons on Boomerang.
 

24 posted on 12/27/2019 2:01:54 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: carriage_hill

She a dyke. That tells you all you need to know.


25 posted on 12/27/2019 2:03:09 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Morgana

Don’t know if they are fascist but, I have switched back to “Lifetime” movies.

The women of “Lifetime”, KuhRayZee they may be, at least have sex...


26 posted on 12/27/2019 2:05:12 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Morgana

IIRC, Amanda is an atheist. This time of year must make her crazy with all that talk about Christ bringing a message of peace and hope.


27 posted on 12/27/2019 2:06:43 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Morgana
". . . controversy for pulling an ad from Zola featuring a lesbian wedding. Though Hallmark reversed that decision, . . ."

Hallmark caved to Satan's minions once so naturally those minions will double down and apply more pressure based on ever more trivial stuff.

It's how Satan has managed to bend corporations to his will time and time again so now it's Hallmark's turn. IMHo, you may as well kiss Hallmark goodbye because the people who run it don't want to be outsiders in the industry.

Losing money is fine for such folks but losing face within the industry isn't which is why companies like Penny's and Target fold when perverts make absurd demands. Forget the people who they depend on to stay in business, what matters to them is the people who they depend on for approval.

28 posted on 12/27/2019 2:08:12 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Morgana
HALLMARK MOVIES supports anti-Traditional Family Values

Hallmark Channel Only Cares About LGBTQ Feelings

29 posted on 12/27/2019 2:11:01 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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To: WashingtonSource

Her only saving grace is that she shaves her armpits. Heh.


30 posted on 12/27/2019 2:11:42 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SamAdams76
And she will make you a sammich.
 
31 posted on 12/27/2019 2:11:50 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: cdcdawg

The Lefft are all fascist these days. But if you go by the 1940s designations I’d rather be a Fascist (oh let say Franco or Perrone) than a Marxist like Stalin which is what the Marxist scum are emulating these days)


32 posted on 12/27/2019 2:12:37 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Morgana

I have noticed they usually use actresses who are hot or at least were in their prime.


33 posted on 12/27/2019 2:14:41 PM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Morgana

34 posted on 12/27/2019 2:16:17 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: cdcdawg

Pretty rich coming from a magazine that is 100% Fascist propaganda. Doesn’t look much like Hallmark though.


35 posted on 12/27/2019 2:16:38 PM PST by Bayan
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To: Morgana
Marcotte called the normal Hallmark fare “the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda.”

Fascism is a form of totalitarianism. Fascist propaganda is totalitarian propaganda = anti-life: irrationalism, collectivism, altruism, statism, and socialism.

36 posted on 12/27/2019 2:17:30 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
I think it will be the biggest Christmas movie of next year's Hallmark season. I will make Amanda all feminine and nice looking.

I already have her sweater picked out.

Tattoo removal will be a challenge. But I'm up for it.


37 posted on 12/27/2019 2:17:42 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: mjp

Isms in my opinion are not good, a person should not believe in an ism.

I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.”

Good point there, after all, he was the Walrus.


38 posted on 12/27/2019 2:18:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Morgana

https://youtu.be/M9JDF8n-Jyc?t=105

“A Nazi! You’re all in cahoots....”


39 posted on 12/27/2019 2:19:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: altura
I think they definately should have more black couples, asian couples, hispanic couples etc...all hetero of course....but other then that, they're little drifts away from reality when were stressed out.....

what the heck is wrong with that?

40 posted on 12/27/2019 2:20:13 PM PST by cherry
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