Its a mistake to believe that this is an irrational or ignorant decision. These guys KNOW what the message of PBS is and there is a reason they don't want it to get to kids. They are making child soldiers and they don't want people giving them inconvenient values.

You guys are telling jokes while the other side is building an army. Maybe start taking this shit seriously.

It's really easy! If you imagine that a black person and a white person could never be friends or spend positive time together, and then you saw a show that had them together, you might conclude the show is trying to convince you something is okay that you know is not. Propaganda.

If you imagine that a gay person is inherently wrong, and that bad things deserve to happen to them as punishment for their choices, and then you watch a show where a gay person is happy and normal and respected, you might conclude the show is trying to push an idea on you that you already know isn't right. Propaganda.

It's sad, and dangerous, but it's not complicated.

Reality has a well known Liberal bias.

I can barely even understand how anyone could think PBS is propaganda.

Propaganda, that's how.

The Reich wing is infuriatingly effective at using projection as both a defensive measure and an assault.

I have an uncle who thinks anything to the left of NewsMax or OAN is "too liberal" (yes that includes Fox News). The indoctrination is real

Like Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky...

Arkansas ranks 45 out of 51 states in education.

So, let's say the kid gets up at 6am. PBS listings:

• 6:00 -- Pinkalicious and Peterriffic: Gingerbread House; Christmas Tree Trouble: "Pinkalicious" and Peter build a gingerbread house that attracts Sarafina, a holiday fairy
• 6:30 -- Curious George: George Digs Worms; Everything Old Is New Again: George's entry into the world of worm racing faces a giant hurdle when Mr Quint picks up the wrong lunch box; George learns about recycling, and sets out to recycle everything he possibly can.
• 7:00 -- Sesame Street: Elmo's Morning Routine: Elmo and Abby help Crystal the Ball invent a morning routine.
• 7:30 -- Milo: Milo the Decorator: Otto is needed elsewhere, so Milo and pals set to work painting Dame Delores's ballroom.
• 8:00 -- Work it Out Wombats: Zadie's Horrible Haircut; Zadie's Horrible Haircut; A Day Out With Babby: SUPER anxious about going to the barber, Zadie decides to cut her own hair. To fix this disaster, Zadie needs to face her fear of getting a haircut. When it comes to playdates, Malik discovers that smart devices have their limitations.

Golly such offensive content. The kids might actually learn something on Sesame Street!

That book should be the US constitution.

The exact reason it has to go. Too much oversight, not enough pandering and way way too much science.

AETN was the affiliate there, they cut ties. State is taking credit cause racing to the bottom is Arkansas to a T

Keep pretending that the Democrats lost the election because of a conspiracy of online users further to the left of you, and not because they ran a botched campaign with an unelectable candidate.

PBS is a remnant of an older America that attempted to improve things. It's mostly funded by donations just like national public radio. Both are highly politicized because they have a history of apolitical pursuit of truth and that made them boogeymen of the right. The right has also done some capture of them because of that (much like the bbc).

Also universal healthcare is something we're actively and intensively propagandized against. Despite that it's still more popular than our politicians would have you believe.

PBS provide contrary content to right wing, that is why its a threat to them.

It has nothing to do with money.

i think this poster thinks "public television" means "available for viewing by the public" rather than "available for use by the public"

we have become a nation of consumers. not of makers, maintainers, or even owners. just consumers. the public broadcast system is in many places the only network where you can see a documentary made by your neighbor. but people who think like this, like pbs and voa are the same, would never think to make a documentary, or to learn more about their local community. these people really buy into the "there is no two americas, there is just america" propaganda. the reality is that there are 13 american nations based on cultural identity, and within those, another 3 based on access to services thanks to class based identity, meaning the 2 americas line of thinking introduced by jimmy carter could get most people closer to understanding the empire we live in, but there's really 39+ americas.

cutting funding to pbs means that there will be no exploration anymore of Arkansas' identity. they will now be subsumed into a national identity that does not care about Arkansas. no one will be able to speak truths about what it means to be from the farthest reaches of greater Appalachia to people living in new york city.

these people think they've told the coastal elites to shove it, but they've silenced only themselves, and have chosen to only consume content made by and for those very coastal elite. they have willfully chosen to enter into their own modern dark age. and they celebrate it, gleefully, because they haven't the education to understand what it is they've done