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.
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.
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.
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.
She a dyke. That tells you all you need to know.
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...
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.
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.
Her only saving grace is that she shaves her armpits. Heh.
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)
I have noticed they usually use actresses who are hot or at least were in their prime.
Pretty rich coming from a magazine that is 100% Fascist propaganda. Doesn’t look much like Hallmark though.
Fascism is a form of totalitarianism. Fascist propaganda is totalitarian propaganda = anti-life: irrationalism, collectivism, altruism, statism, and socialism.
I already have her sweater picked out.
Tattoo removal will be a challenge. But I'm up for it.
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.
what the heck is wrong with that?
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