SpongeBob SquarePants is ‘violent, racist and whitewashes US history’ top professor claims

[snoop1130]

SpongeBob SquarePants is ‘violent, racist and whitewashes US history’ top professor claims

By Christy Cooney

 

An American academic has branded children's TV series SpongeBob SquarePants 'violent' and 'racist' Credit: Nickelodeon

 

A US professor has branded SpongeBob SquarePants a "violent and racist" series that "whitewashes US military rampages".

 

Writing in an academic journal, University of Washington anthropology professor Holly M. Barker drew parallels between the children's cartoon and the past use of the Marshall Islands for American nuclear testing.

 

SpongeBob and the other characters in the long-running show live in an underwater town called Bikini Bottom.

 

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the US military moved natives off a constituent island of the Marshall Islands named Bikini Atoll so as to test nuclear weapons in the area.

 

Full Story: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10131705/spongebob-squarepants-violent-racist-whitewashes-history-professor/

[Enoon]

 

SpongeBob and pals started life as comic book teaching aids at the (now) Ocean Institute in California:

 

"Born in Lawton, Oklahoma and raised in Anaheim, California, Hillenburg became fascinated with the ocean as a child and developed an interest in art. He started his professional career in 1984, instructing marine biology, at the Orange County Marine Institute, where he wrote The Intertidal Zone, an informative comic book about tide-pool animals, which he used to educate his students."

 

Stephen Hillenburg - Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

[tgw]

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She writes that, "despite being a presented as a nonsensical and harmless cartoon, SpongeBob shapes global perceptions of the actual place called Bikini", and calls it "disturbing" that the show's creators did not understand that "Bikini Bottom and Bikini Atoll were not theirs for the taking".

wow, heh.

:facepalm:

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A US professor has branded SpongeBob SquarePants a "violent and racist" series that "whitewashes US military rampages".

When I first read this, I thought it compared to Nixon and Kissinger!

 

[DoctorG]

One can only wonder at the state of academia today.

[Krataiboy]

6 hours ago, DoctorG said:

One can only wonder at the state of academia today.

The US is apparently reaping the harvest of deliberate and systematic neo-Marxist subversion of its educational system by agents working for the former Soviet Union.

 

A high-ranking former KGB defector spilled the beans more than thirty years ago in a riveting video interview with Edward D. Griffin (of The Creature from Jekyll Island fame).

 

http://www.visiontimes.com/2015/08/30/former-kgb-agent-explains-communist-ideological-subversion-in-america.html

[Denim]

[khaowong1]

I swear to Buddha, you can't make this <deleted> up.  ha ha ha ha