Here they come for Paw Patrol

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I seriously doubt there is any real backlash against a kid’s cartoon.
 
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Granted, I don’t think the insane ramblings of a New York Times editorialist carries much gravitas
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Did you read the New York Times editorial? It’s not unreasonable, and the bit about Paw Patrol was only the intro. If you read past that, it’s about how all police-themed media is under scrutiny now – movies, TV shows, even kids’ toys.


2020 is a he[ck] of a year, isn’t it!
 
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Well, for Heaven’s sake! Now kids are expected to grow up hating cops? Give me a break! This is beyond ridiculous!
 
The Paw Patrol story started out as somebody on social media suggested it tongue-in-cheek, then some people started taking it up seriously, then NYT decided to report on the controversy (why they would even care is beyond me).

But no, they’re not cancelling Paw Patrol.
 
This is true. There are people who hate the police. Sometimes they have good reasons to do so, such as bad past experiences with police; sometimes they are criminals who regard police as the enemy; and sometimes they’re just angry people (often angry white people) looking for something to hate on. Their behavior doesn’t always make sense.

I think there are always going to be a significant number of kids who look up to police officers though. I have no idea why, but they do. At the height of all the police brutality incidents during Obama’s second term, I was handing out candy to trick-or-treaters and a couple boys came dressed as police officers. They were old enough (like age 8 or 9) that they would have chosen their own costume rather than their parents picking out what they would be. I was a bit surprised because the police were getting nothing but bad PR that year and yet kids still wanted to be a police officer for Halloween.
 
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I think there are always going to be a significant number of kids who look up to police officers though. I have no idea why, but they do.
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They may still look up to them because kids that age don’t watch the news to know that some people don’t like police officers.

They may have been raised in a family of police officers, or in a family that teaches their children to respect authority. There is plenty of time for them to learn the problems of all authority as they get older.
 
Yeah, but the respect for police and having an interest in police officers seems to also include a lot of children who don’t have an officer in the family.

I heard one police chief say once that he grew up in a dysfunctional family and that the police actually helped and were kind to him when they came out on a call regarding a domestic abuse situation or something similar, and the experience stuck with him, so he decided to go into police work. Maybe other kids have similar experiences. I also think there are kids who just find criminal justice work appealing or interesting.
 
I think that is true. There will always be people that are interested in that line of work. And for the most part, that is a good thing.
 
The decent ones probably ask themselves regularly why they continue in a thankless job that’s not appreciated by a large segment of the community.

I just read an interview with one who said that in the space of a couple days he went from being regarded as a COVID crisis hero to a bad guy. That happens so often, it must be tough on them.
 
This brings to mind an ancient Chinese curse.

“May you live in interesting times.”
 
Chinese curse, also Christian blessing. I think these interesting times are part of God’s plan to save us.
 
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