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"Kindergarten Cop, the quotable 1990 hit comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a detective who poses as a teacher to apprehend a dangerous drug dealer, has been removed from its opening night slot at Portland's Northwest Film Center's Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater after criticisms that it plays a “school-to-prison pipeline” for laughs and “romanticizes over-policing in the U.S.”
The charge was led by local author Lois Leveen, who took to Twitter Saturday to call out the film ahead of its planned screening, which was scheduled to kick off the film series on Thursday.
“What’s so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline?” Leveen wrote in a tweet shared via screen caps by The Daily Mail (Leveen’s account has since been made private). “Kindergarten Cop-Out: Tell @nwfilmcenter there’s nothing fun in traumatizing kids. National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive Kindergarten Cop. IRL, we are trying to end school-to-prison pipeline.....”
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Stupidity at it's best - I loved that movie. Best see if there's still a copy left on Ebay. 1 seller sold 74 copies in just the last 24 hours - so they are going fast.
So one person complains and gets to make the decision for everyone, not to play a movie showing a police officer in a positive light? Also that movie came out years ago never heard a complaint about it before.
So one person complains and gets to make the decision for everyone, not to play a movie showing a police officer in a positive light? Also that movie came out years ago never heard a complaint about it before.
I don't understand this practice. Why are people so afraid to just say NO?
So one person complains and gets to make the decision for everyone, not to play a movie showing a police officer in a positive light? Also that movie came out years ago never heard a complaint about it before.
Well, that's how they roll in "progressive" areas.
I don't understand this practice. Why are people so afraid to just say NO?
Maybe because anywhere from a dozen to a hundred masked people might show up uninvited at your door in progressive locales where the police are ordered to stand down?
I grew up watching this movie, it's classic comedy! What's next, Goonies???
I've been looking into who Lois Leveen is, and it would appear that this is more likely a covert attempt to use the "Police" as a scapegoat to shut down the biological narrative given by a 5 year old in the movie. Which is really no different than those who have used & exploited the "Black Lives Matter" movement to further their own personal & political agendas.
Stupid stuff like this really just makes a mockery of serious issues that actually do need addressing. Nice way to distract the masses, tho. I'll give her that much... Cancel culture sure is becoming more and more obvious. How about we shut HER down instead.
"Kindergarten Cop, the quotable 1990 hit comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a detective who poses as a teacher to apprehend a dangerous drug dealer, has been removed from its opening night slot at Portland's Northwest Film Center's Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater after criticisms that it plays a “school-to-prison pipeline” for laughs and “romanticizes over-policing in the U.S.”
The charge was led by local author Lois Leveen, who took to Twitter Saturday to call out the film ahead of its planned screening, which was scheduled to kick off the film series on Thursday.
“What’s so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline?” Leveen wrote in a tweet shared via screen caps by The Daily Mail (Leveen’s account has since been made private). “Kindergarten Cop-Out: Tell @nwfilmcenter there’s nothing fun in traumatizing kids. National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive Kindergarten Cop. IRL, we are trying to end school-to-prison pipeline.....”
Whatever happened to the concept of if you don’t like it, don’t watch it? Why does she feel the need to control what others watch? If it is as offensive as she claims then it will bomb and not be shown again.
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