Posted on 11/23/2024 10:24:18 AM PST by DallasBiff
Laurie's friend Frankie tries out for the school basketball team but is rejected because she is a girl. Laurie runs for homecoming queen so she can speak her mind on discrimination. Keith has a male friend compete against Laurie for queen.
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It was cute, and also chronicles the start of wokeness.
Flame away and have fun, it's Saturday.
Once you get rid of the Bible and religion, anything goes.
The Partridge Family was on TV starting in 1970. Just ten or twelve years after religion was kicked out of public schools.
I attended a public school in rural Virginia in 1961 and ‘62, and we had Bible class every day. And I liked it very much.
Thank you Miss Hutchison.
Ummm, young Susan Dey
It was cute, and also chronicles the start of wokeness.
There was a Brady Bunch where Marcia decides to become a Boy Scout so Greg forces one of the little brothers to join the girls’ equivalent.
But the propaganda has been with us for some ninety years.
Watch Western tv from the 50s and 60 for examples of early woke, and anything that Rod Serling did.
Compare John MacDonald’s book, The Executioners against the movie Cape Fear and then the later movie for how they are slowly moving things to fit their agenda.
Always indicting society; always preaching tolerance.
” watch Western tv from the 50s and 60 for examples of early woke,”
We’ve noticed it on Rifleman and Gunsmoke.
A lot of the shows I watched as a teen, including the Partridge Family, when I think about them now, I can see the start of political correctness.
Yeah she was completely organic.
I went to college in the early 1980s and political correctness was already something people were talking about.
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