Republicans are furious Seame Street's Big Bird (and now Elmo) got vaccinated.

[DaleCooper]

Something about America that's very funny and sad is that all our political ideologues really care about is mass media entertainment. Back in the day (probably still today as well) there were many conferences where fat conservatives would get together and dissect Harry Potter scene-by-scene or play Led Zeppelin backwards and then talk about how evil it was. The left does it too where they compare the skin color of everybody onscreen or obsess over offhand comments made by artists. These people need to get real jobs.

[DaleCooper]

Helicopter parents are so out-of-control that they probably are opposed to anti-bullying messages in kids shows. After all, it's up to the parents to instill their values.

[DaleCooper]

I'm more concerned about parents letting their children access Twitter (even if it's only to follow Sesame Street characters) than Big Bird getting the jab.

That's the hilarious contradiction here. Most of these helicopter parents are fine with feeding their kids several thousands of calories every day and letting them play on the internet round the clock. If they actually cared about parenting, maybe they'd bother to do a little bit of it here and there. The reason they're so scared of a show like Sesame Street saying something they disagree with is because they rely on the media to raise their kids for them.

[DaleCooper]

I'm more concerned about parents letting their children access Twitter (even if it's only to follow Sesame Street characters) than Big Bird getting the jab.

That's the hilarious contradiction here. Most of these helicopter parents are fine with feeding their kids several thousands of calories every day and letting them play on the internet round the clock. If they actually cared about parenting, maybe they'd bother to do a little bit of it here and there. The reason they're so scared of a show like Sesame Street saying something they disagree with is because they rely on the media to raise their kids for them.

 Strawman much? Not saying that people like this don't exist, but you are creating this bizarre extreme image to implicitly justify republicans going apesh**t over BIG BIRD TELLING KIDS NOT TO BE SCARED OF GETTING A COVID SHOT.

I said that the people who are always up in arms about their kids being brainwashed by children's shows wouldn't have to worry if they weren't relying on the media to raise their children for them.