In almost every movement that calls for change, there comes a time when the silly suggestions start to roll in. The amount of mockery I will add to that which follows such suggestions is miniscule, given my limited bloggy reach. But these are proposals that merit all the possible mockery that can exist, and no addition is too small.
Our first is two-pronged. The LEGO group admirably pledged to donate $4 million to combat racisim, but it also asked its affiliates to stop marketing its police and law enforcement playsets. Because President Donald Trump's fondest wish has become a reality and everything is about him, the company also asked those affiliates to stop advertising its White House construction set. And it inexplicably included its fire station set in the mix.
To be clear, the company didn't stop selling or making those items or ask stores to pull them. It just doesn't want them advertised. If you pull products from the shelves, then people don't buy them and you lose money. If you ask someone to stop advertising them and then tell the media then you get lots of buzz and people intentionally buying those sets in order to show you're not the boss of them. In case it's not clear, I am indeed suggesting that the LEGO group's statement and decision is rank hypocrisy. Actually pulling the sets from the shelves, as this piece at The Mary Sue advises, wouldn't be hypocritical. It's straight-up turn-the-lights-out stupid, but it is not hypocritical.
The second silly suggestion comes from a Washington Post writer, Alyssa Rosenberg. She wants every police and law enforcement television show and movie canceled. They offer a view of law enforcement that's unrealistically effective and efficient, prejudicing people to think well of police officers and prosecutors. Ms. Rosenberg offers no opinion on what impact the unrealism of Hollywood's version of romance does to real-life couples when they learn they have difficulties unsolvable in a single episode or 90-minute romantic comedy film, because that would be stupid. Although she is quite unafraid to say silly and stupid things, she is very particular about which silly and stupid things she will say.
Since it's clear that the nation's commentariat cannot be counted on to provide solutions to the immediate crisis of violet rioting or the longer-term problems of racial tension and bullying culture's takeover of law enforcement, we must look elsewhere. It's time to turn to our elected leaders for...
Yeah, I knew I couldn't type that.
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