Pretty misleading. This isn’t “PBS,” it’s one member station doing it to their local content.
PBS gives their members freedom. Can’t help it if some are conservatives or panicking over loss of local funding from their local conservative govt
As the Trump administration intensifies its attacks, PBS has bent the knee in another way to dampen potential blowback by removing a scene in an Art Spiegelman documentary in which the graphic novelist Spiegelman discusses an anti-Trump cartoon. PBS also pulled a gaming documentary with trans themes, only to relist it after The Atlantic asked about its deletion.
Sounds like it’s not just the local station engaging in shenanigans.
God dammit, PBS, right before pride month? They already took your fucking money. Why should my trans ass be donating to make up for it?
Wasn’t PBS, it was WNET. An affiliate.
An affiliate who has done shitty things before, like bend the knee to the Koch brothers.
Is POV (the PBS series) not a nationwide, PBS produced program rather than an individual station program? The Atlantic article mentioned at the end talks about POV having a trans gamer themed episode canceled because of potential backlash.
Even if the content was produced by PBS, it was the affiliate that blocked it from airing.
The Atlantic article indicates PBS executives were involved with the decision and removed it from PBS.org, which an affiliate station presumably couldn’t do.
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Anyone who thinks the inclusion of trans people in public life is a battle worth laying down can kiss my trans ass. I’m not a bank, my donations are drawn from a limited well, and I’m perfectly fine with moving that money to a trans focused cause instead.
It wasn’t PBS broadly, it was a specific affiliate station in New York.
PBS is being threatened as a whole, and not just because they’re inclusive, but because they are an entity for the public benefit, and the current assholes at large hate that sort of thing. I sincerely doubt they want to do this, but if there’s any hope of them continuing their mission, how do you propose they handle it? I’m really not trying to be a dick here, and it’s horseshit that we’re at this point as a society, but I can see where they’re at.
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Fucking cowards.
I’m going to need a list of every person that was turned LGBT+, by a song, tv show, video game, etc. Conservatives are such hypocrites and liars. You CAN’T turn someone gay. If you could, the whole fucking planet would be gay.
i had a whole joke mostly written out about religion turning people conservative. I’m so tired
Why the fuck would PBS care anymore since the GOP is cutting all of their funding?
Worthless spineless cowards like this are worse than the fascists because they’re the ones who allow a minority to rule over them.
I was at a confirmation to a boy a couple of days ago, where the uncle is gay. The uncle hadde a speech that started with "When [name] was in kindergarten, he said ‘I want a boyfriend, like my uncle Tom has, because he’s so happy’. Damn, that was funny. Especially since the boy is as straight today. There’s NOTHING wrong with children being exposed to different people. Fuck the GOP and their hateful minds. Let people be people, you closeted bigots!
So… watching fox news can make my trans and gay friends hetero and alter their gender? I’m doubtful.
No, but it can make them hateful and alter their grasp on reality.
It’ll absolutely make them self hating. Pretty sure that’s been proven repeatedly in the GOP
When they say “turn”, they mean “learn”.
They want their children to live a life of denial and never learn that they are allowed to feel the way they do.
We used to get excited and sang along to Culture Club music videos when they came on TV. Never once wanted to dress like Boy George.
Some of us did, but it still didn’t destroy the world or hurt anyone at all.
Yup, you do you and I’ll do me and we’ll live happily side by side.
Myself and everybody I knew thought Boy George was a woman.
Can I complain too? Because the GOP is turning kids to suicide because they are having a miserable life for not being allowed who they are. You really have the mental capacity of a can of mountain dew if you think “gay” is an option, a choice, something which can change. The only thing that can change are the limited dumb fucks who believe in an imaginary guy in the clouds with super powers (which he only uses for crual things somehow) by stopping abusing others and forcing children into their expectations. It’s literally child abuse what they are doing. And they are making the rules, instead of being trialed.
Why PBS, WHY?
Honestly fucking stupid.
You think these hogs care that you removed the content? It’s not about the content! They just hate public media! You can never conform to their standards because their standards are solely about privatisation.
With friends like these…
Do you want to know something? I never thought we’d be back to the old “If kids see queer people, they’ll turn queer” arguments.
They never left =/ you may have just temporarily disconnected from the media that promote them.
It wasn’t a vocal majority in the government until now.
Is that also why they don’t like black people in movies? They don’t want them turning their kids black?
If media can turn someone gay than rationally the inverse should be true as well so why are there still gay people when the media is 99% non gay stuff?
Bert and Ernie tried to make me gay. And don’t even get me started on that Count guy. Like, is that seriously what he’s wearing?
It’s called fashion, honey. You wouldn’t understand it.
Ernie is the coziest of bottoms.
Cookie Monster gave me an eating disorder.
