Brainwashing Children

Veggie Tales. You know, the "Go God" series that teaches children all of the old school American values.  Shayne received one of these books as a gift! And we were happy to have it as we want her library to be vast so that she may choose her path wisely.  However, this particular rendition of God Loves Us, as cute as it is, is also pretty unpolitically correct. Being the good mom I am, I had no choice but to glue a couple of her thick cardboard pages together.

Apparently the little peas (or whatever they are) are dumb hicks.  Complete with missing teeth and poor grammar spelled out as it would sound.  Well, we have family that wear overalls and drive tractors.  And believe it or not they are not dumb (there is of course, an exception for every rule).  They have degrees, and all of their teeth, and you don't need a translator to decipher the words they be spewing out they mouths.

Lets break this down. Perhaps you are unaware of the immense reach that Veggie Tales is capable of.  Since 1993 they have sold 53+ million videos, 13 million books and more than 7 million CDs. They have aired on NBC, Telemundo, ION TV, the list goes on! That means that children everywhere are being exposed to the perpetuation of the country bumpkin stereotype hand in hand with being spoon fed Christianity. 

Beginning at the earliest age of childhood development children are having the seed of pretentiousness planted as deep into their souls as their faith. Which translates into stuck up hoes growing up to marry stuck up pricks that become stuck up politicians and businessmen. Politicians such as these are the ones shutting down your schools and driving economically poisonous steaks into the hearts of rural areas.  Wal Mart is also guilty of said treachery.  All these decisions derived from the notion that country folk are dumb and useless towards the progression of our outstanding American culture.  Ugh. Don't get me started. I think we can all agree that American culture is disgusting.

In summary: shame on you Veggie Tales! Teaching children that some people are better than other people.  Not to mention the flip side of this situation! Which is even MORE awful!

Lets take a quick look at the pretend red/blue map of our country in our minds. We all know that the majority of high value, Christian culture is located where? In the sticks.  Where they drive tractors and wear overalls, much the dummy peas in the currently glued together pages of Shayne's "God Loves Us" book.  So here rather than worrying about brainwashing children to be snobby, we have to worry about crushing an unconscious layer of self worth!  Classic case of self-fulfilling prophecy. 

The most despicable part of all of this is the seething irony!  Our children only know to discriminate because we teach them to do it.  So stop.