Elon Musk Urges Parents to Cancel Netflix Over 'transgender Woke Agenda'
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I have to imagine that most children don’t even realize that same sex couples are in a relationship or a character is trans while watching shows.
The trick with propaganda is that it subconsciously affects your mind, to the point you won't realize until it is too late.
It is no secret why most FAANG are in advertising: Meta, Google, Netflix (movies and shows are just another form).
They are in the business of controlling your mind - doing this to children is immoral, especially when it comes to their health and identity.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect
[2] https://archive.ph/JGuKR#selection-615.106-615.121
[3] https://thatparkplace.com/my-panda-my-choice-propaganda-in-a...
[4] https://medium.com/@trendguardian/free-will-a-rich-fairy-tal...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10353947/
Anyone who has watched "Dead End" knows the only "propaganda" it is pushing is that trans kids exist and one particular one (Barney) feels more comfortable expressing what they feel is their most authentic identity.
Also what is the comparative exposure of LGBTQ experience as seen in children's programming versus the amount of heterosexual experience they are shown?
I always think of Punky Brewster and get a little anxious any time I see someone get in a refrigerator. Even though I know modern refrigerators don’t have the issues of Punky’s, it still feels incredibly risky to get into a fridge thanks to that one episode of a TV show I saw one time 30+ years ago.
You never really know what people will latch onto that will change behavior decades later.
I watched Captain Planet as well. While I don’t know if it was directly responsible or not, I have a hard time throwing stuff away that still seems good. I always try to sell or donate it. I don’t want to be the one that adds massive amounts of stuff to the landfill. If I have more than one bag to throw away for the week, I feel a little embarrassed. I avoid retail therapy, in part, for a similar reason. Was it Captain Planet, was it the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle commercials? Maybe a little of both.
And people still came out gay.
States are introducing age-verification bills for porn where they include "gender ideology" or "people expressing identity incongruent with their biological sex" in the definition of porn. This was planned very explicitly in Project 2025. The right is pushing the same "trans visibility is turning kids trans" nonsense that they were pushing a 20 years ago with "gay visibility is turning kids gay."
This isn't just going to be parents cancelling netflix subscriptions or even school boards removing specific books from libraries. This is going to be coordinated efforts to criminalize trans visibility.
It would be pitiable if he hadn't already burned through 1000x his allotted pity credits (even only in the last 6 months).
Elon has fallen into that classic trap of 'it exists, but I don't like it, so I must cancel it!' rather than what a normal thinking parent would do, and not allow your kid to watch that one show.
You know, parenting...
There are lots of shows I don't like on Netflix, I just scroll past instead of having a public tantrum.
But I'm not a ketamine addict either.
Their biggest source of anxiety in life is enough people aren't paying attention to them. Anything else that captures more Attention is an automatic existential threat. Netflix captures a lot of Attention. Therefore its a threat.
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