Merry Christmas
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.
So the Hallmark Channel started showing “Triumph of the Will”?
“And here’s another clue for you all....the Walrus is Paul.”
Glass Onion, White Album.
You have to feel sorry for Amanda. She must have an awfully unfulfilling life.
Amanda needs to head back to Skankville .... anyone who invokes ‘fascist propaganda’ has utterly no clue wtf it truly is.....nothing more than nonsensical ideological BS rhetoric, highly common among libtard progressive ‘tolerant’ jackasses.
Ass clown doesn’t even know what a fascist is!
LTC.
Try Franzia for boxed wine.
I think it describes her well.
The same skank that called any Duke Lacrosse supporter white scum. She’s ripe for a lawsuit across the bow. A brush back pitch.
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.
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Salon, like many websites, is engaged in a sort of clickbait war. They push ever more absurd stories, not because they believe them, but they think if they’re outrageous enough it will drive traffic to the website. It results in ever more absurd stories being pushed, all desperate for attention.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, Cupcake!
I'd not heard that term before. It describes her and this sort of story perfectly..
Just wait until next year when AMC becomes their lebensraum and we get the sickly sweet Walking Dead Hallmark Christmas.
Merry Christmas
“ 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.’”
Really? TITANIC (1943) Not a bad movie if you overlook the small amount of nazi propaganda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1943_film)
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Leftist cranks have a nation voice now via the internet.
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I guess some homo doesn’t like normal women and Christmas.
Most of them are done on the cheap with unknown actors and filmed in Canada. All that snow fits in quite well as well. They are well disguised but those with sharp eyes can spot the tell tale signs of a great white north production.
Hallmark Christmas movies represent normality. There was a time when most people thought and acted like the people in the movies. Leftists can’t stand normality.
They are not propaganda. But they are tepid, schmaltzy and boring as hell.
Czc
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