Prof: SpongeBob perpetuates 'violent, racist' acts against indigenous people

Autumnal Equinox dijo:
First it was the religious fundie re.tards claiming SpongeBob was subliminally encouraging the children to be gay. Now it's the leftist fundie re.tards claiming SpongeBob is subliminally encouraging the children to be racist.

Horseshoe Theory strikes again!
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Except this is far crazier shit than even the craziest religious fundie could come up with, this makes similar outrages over Spongebob being "gay" look tame.

And this is also a sore subject to me for two reasons, one is because I love the whole Tiki/tropical/Hawaiian shirt/island culture motif (SpongeBob is in fact one reason why) and if you're going to tell me as a white man that I can't enjoy that culture, well, that really pisses me off.

But to be fair, most Pacific Islander people would probably not care, it's only dumbass little white women like this that think cultures shouldn't be shared.

And two is another problem I have with this crap is it cheapens an actual serious issue, the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing is no joke, I had a grandfather who was a Navy veteran and was present for that testing and it was always upsetting to him how we destroyed those people's homeland, it's a disservice to wrap up a serious issue in utterly insane bullshit like this.
 
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Except this is far crazier shit than even the craziest religious fundie could come up with, this makes similar outrages over Spongebob being "gay" look tame.

And this is also a sore subject to me for two reasons, one is because I love the whole Tiki/tropical/Hawaiian shirt/island culture motif (SpongeBob is in fact one reason why) and if you're going to tell me as a white man that I can't enjoy that culture, well, that really pisses me off.

But to be fair, most Pacific Island people would probably not care, it's only dumbass little white women like this that think cultures shouldn't be shared.

And two is another problem I have with this crap is it cheapens an actual serious issue, the Bikini Atoll nuclear testing is no joke, I had a grandfather who was a Navy veteran and was present for that testing and it was always upsetting to him how we destroyed those people's homeland, it's a disservice to wrap up a serious issue in utterly insane bullshit like this.
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"We need to stop being so racially insensitive! How come other cultures can't be shared and appreciated?!"

"REEEEEEE!!!!! fuck you, white demon! How DARE you enjoy that culture you had nothing to do with and probably would destroy or rape if you could get your white hands on it! Evil evil white motherfucker! How dare you be so racially insensitive!"

Christ I hate what the left has become. It really is ridiculous the mental gymnastics they go through to absolve themselves of their hypocrisy.

Your grandpa sounds like a good man. I hope he was/is able to find some measure of solace or peace.
 
What, are we supposed to believe that Hillenburg, who's life outside of working on Spongebob was probably just watching algae forming on rocks by the seaside and other things marine biologists do, also had a secret neo-nazi agenda he was trying to promote in his show, where he praises the friggin Bikini Atoll?

Edit: I'm willing to believe that this bitch never actually watched the show, as she also complained about the show being sexist for Sandy Cheeks, who she complains about for "only being in the show for the sake of gender diversity", despite the fact that Sandy is probably the most level headed character in the series, can kick anybody's ass on a dime, and is a fucking scientist that builds inventions that modern science would only hope to make.
 
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In this case, wouldn't the humans who possessed the means to move away from bikini atoll be the privileged ones? I mean, the sea creatures were "natives" too, except that they can't just decide to leave, and the implication of the show's title is that all the talking sea life is the result of horrific mutations, right?
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There's no reason at all to think the sea life is anything but native in the shows fictional setting. Except for Sandy, who is a land critter and is explicitly supposed to be an outsider because of it.
 
I could not agree more. Nickelodeon should be forced by the government to pay for the relocation of any Indian who wishes to return to their native homeland at the bottom of the ocean.
 
there was a long post on tumblr about how spongebob is a parable about marxism, it was written to make fun of people that read way too far into cartoons (which is a tumblr passtime, obviously). I found a copy of it on reddit.

r/FanTheories - The Main Characters in Spongebob are Marxist Symbols

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We start with Mr. Krabs, who is obviously the Bourgeois business owner who ruthlessly exploits Squidward and Spongebob. There is no question about this, it is repeatedly demonstrated that Mr. Krabs is a cruel boss, pathetically obsessed with money even at the expense of his own health (“Squid's Day Off”). He has attempted to charge his workers for breathing (“Squid on Strike”), forced them to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (“Graveyard Shift”) and even traded Spongebob's soul for a measly 62 cents (“Born Again Krabs”). His continual protection of the Krabby Patty Secret Formula from Plankton, in which he enlists the involuntary help of Spongebob (who sees it as a valiant quest to protect the honor of the Krusty Krab) and Squidward (who is just in it for the paycheck), is nothing more than a cheap quest to protect the profit margin of the Krabby Patty, which he likely sells for more than it is worth. There are two ways his workers can react to this awful situation, and Spongebob and Squidward each represent one of them. Squidward is the class-conscious worker. He is fully aware of his miserable situation under the thumb of Mr. Krabs, thus resulting in his depressed and irritable attitude. He is clearly no stranger to Marxist ideas, being the only one of the two to quit due to Krabs' abuse (“Can You Spare a Dime?”) and starting a strike against Mr. Krabs (“Squid on Strike”). He finds solace in art, and dreams of living in a utopian Fully Automated Luxury Communism, relaxing while making his art and sharing it with the world. It was Oscar Wilde, after all, who argued in The Soul of Man Under Socialism that only when their needs are fully accounted for can the artist truly hone their creative genius. He is continually disappointed with his fellow proletarians, the denizens of Bikini Bottom, most of all Spongebob.

If one thinks about it, Squidward really has no apparent reason to hate Spongebob. Spongebob is incredibly kind to Squidward, giving him gifts, saying good morning to him every day, altogether just trying to bring joy into Squidward's life. We are led to believe that Squidward is simply a curmudgeon who hates Spongebob for being happy while he is depressed. But is that really as deep as it goes? I think not. Once one realizes the Marxist undertones in Spongebob, the answer is clear: Squidward resents Spongebob because he is not class-conscious.

Despite his miserable working conditions, despite his boss's abusive behavior, Spongebob remains relentlessly optimistic. A classic case of the unconscious worker. He is cheerful and optimistic about his condition because he is unaware of anything beyond it. He has a Stockholm Syndrome-esque relationship with his boss, seeing him as a father figure (a classic symptom of blind obedience to authority) and enduring humiliating treatment because he holds on to the promise of one day owning the Krusty Krab, thus taking Krabs' place as the new Bourgeois. Given that he does not even know what a Strike is (“Squid on Strike”) it is clear that he has never been exposed to the Marxist critique. In this context, Squidward represents the ill fate of the worker who does not respect his fellow worker. His attempt at revolution fails because he does not respect Spongebob, and simply tried to use him as a pawn for his own ends. But I digress.

Patrick represents what Marx called the Lumpenproletariat. Unemployed, he is left out of the class struggle, and even if he were involved in it would be too stupid to do anything, as symbolized in his attempt at employment in “Big Pink Loser”. However his value to Squidward, the class-conscious worker who hopes for revolution, is underrated. Marxists from Bakunin onward have criticized Marx's rejection of the lumpenproletariat, and Stephen Hillenburg is no exception. Patrick clearly has the socialist spirit in him, recognizing the value of idleness and enjoying life's simple pleasures. Patrick never seeks after money or power as the Bourgeois expects him to, he simply wants to live out his life in peace. He values friendship over all things; he once admitted to spending all day waiting for his best friend, Spongebob, to come back (“New Student Starfish”). Could this represent how industrial work gets in the way of social bonds? Possibly. The point, my friend, is that Patrick in his idle lumpen state has captured the same optimism and joie de vivre of Spongebob. It could be said that the only difference between him and Spongebob is that Spongebob has subsumed to industrial work. In this way, he is the proletarian who is conscious of Socialist ideas without even knowing it.

Sandy and Plankton represent two possibilities of the future in Marxist analysis. Both of them are clearly college-educated scientists whose approach to technology differs based on their position towards Capitalism. Plankton represents the dystopian Capitalist future, the future of Cyberspace where companies like the Chum Bucket control society (remember that Plankton's expressed goal is to “take over the world”). He represents a cold, distant, inhuman, industrial future, as symbolized by the cold metal interior of the Chum Bucket.

Sandy, on the other hand, seems as well-versed in technology as Plankton, but has used it for a completely different purpose. She has created the treedome, an ecological, self-sustaining utopia in which she has everything she needs. She built a rocket to the moon for the sole purpose of exploration (“Sandy's Rocket”). She pursues science out of pure wonder and a desire for the fulfillment of knowledge, unlike Plankton who pursues science out of a desire for domination and control. She represents Fully Automated Luxury Communism, a utopia in which everyone has everything they need and are free to pursue their passions without the burden of work.

Finally, we have Mrs. Puff. Mrs. Puff was a hard one, but I think she represents the failure and uselessness of modern education. She continually attempts to teach Spongebob a useless skill (he walks to work, he doesn't need to drive) for a pathetic trinket of authority (his driver's license, whose possibility of attainment he worships).
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I am still sincerely baffled by this.

Is she really deadass stating that this really was the creative intent behind the show, or that the creators were aware enough of the history for it to subconsciously make its way into the structure?

Is she shoehorning the show into her ass backwards literary theory as a way to say all this shit she was trying to say anyway? Her read on it is so pointless and shallow that I’m at a loss trying to see how this was a thing that someone put forth in an academic setting at all. Hell, the main points of her analysis rely on a fucking fan theory of all things, and even tying the show’s setting to the Atoll is such a massive jump in logic outside the source material itself that it’s borderline useles as an interpretation.

What the fuck is the point of literary theory if you can’t even make a decent case that the work is reflective on society in any way, either by authorial intent or popular interpretation? If anything it just shows how useless this oppressor-opressed narrative is if it can be warped to show imperialism in a fucking children’s cartoon.

It has to be ironic. There has to be at least some self-awareness to it. A part of me doesn’t want to believe that the humanities have really become this exceptional. It reads like something a high-schooler came up with as a half-joke to sound intelligent, but ended up being so committed to the bit, and so egotistical that they convinced themselves it was genuinely unique and brilliant. I swear to god I’ve had conversations like this in school, and the participants as teens were smart enough to realize it was all tongue-in-cheek bullshit.

This is the weirdest thing I’ve seen all week.
 
She's teaches at University of Washington. She probably smoked too much legal wacky tobaccy one night and turned on some toons, and because she's a self-important Anthropology proffessor with a focus on Oceania, seeing Spongebob triggered some pot induced hot take which she decided deserved to be a published article.
 
OK, this is Rate My Professors [https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=630889]:
Great prof. If you read and show up to class, ur guaranteed a 4.0. Her lectures were interesting, but long. You have no exams but you do have "quizzes" which are all open response (but easy if you do the reading for that week). She makes it very clear she wants everyone to get a 4.0. If you put some effort in u'll get a really good grade.​
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Holly is a great passionate instructor, she will surprise you on her grading for stuff​
And this professor won a distinguished teaching award years ago : https://anthropology.washington.edu/news/2013/04/01/professor-holly-barker-wins-distinguished-teaching-award. This also has an interesting photo of "her".
So, low standards and just making up shit as a result of way too much time in the sun.
This sort of navel gazing crap why the "Western" nations are becoming dumber.
 
Jesus fucking Christ, now they're attacking goddamn Spongebob in the name of their "white supremacist colonial settler" bullshit?

I loved Spongebob as a kid and I'm sure a lot of kids from the younger end of Gen Z and the newer Alpha Generation enjoy it too. They're going to be seeing whiny Millennial college sows say shit like this and rebel accordingly.

The Religious Right caused the sales of heavy metal albums, horror movies, and Dungeons & Dragons go through the roof because the fundie rednecks and church ladies said they promoted Satanism and tried to ban them.

With the way the bearded bugmen and the dangerhairs are going after children's cartoons, video games, anime, and even memes because "muh indigenous peoples of color" and "muh white colonial settler nation", we're going to have a whole army of Alpha Generation kids spamming "Manifest Destiny", "Remove Maize", and "Columbus Did Nothing Wrong" as the new memes.

Maybe it's not the Zoomers the Left should be worried about, after all....

What if there's some truth to the "Generation Zyklon" meme, but it's not Gen Z that's gonna swing far right but instead the Alpha Generation?

SJW's started as a backlash against the Religious Right, but it's driven by the Millennial generation, who were mostly kids and middle school adolescents when the Religious Right was at its height. The teenagers and young adults back in those days were Generation X.

Gen X rebelled against the Religious Right in the 80's and 90's, but it was mostly in the form of listening to metal and alternative rock while playing RPG's and watching horror movies. The real backlash against the Religious Right came with the Millennials and the rise of SJW's.

There's a lot of information about Gen Z that is often conflicting, but one common trend in nearly all the sources is that they're a lot more apolitical and individualist in a way that is similar to how Gen X was at that same stage in their lives.

I mean, do these college leftists want to create the most reactionary generation since the Victorians? Because dumb shit like this is how you get that.
 
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