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First they came for the Simpsons and now they want SpongeBob Squarepants. The Ukraine is considering a move to censor several children's shows after a new study from a conservative commission labeled the shows "a real threat" to the country's youth.
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The Ukraine's National Expert Commission for Protecting Public Morality released the report, which attacks several U.S. and international programs as detrimental to the country.
Psychologist Irina Medvédeva is quoted in the study, alleging that children aged 3 to 5 years old, "pull faces and make jokes in front of adults they don't know, laugh out loud and repeat nonsense phrases in a brazen manner," after viewing the shows.
The Ukrainian paper Ukraínskaya Pravda reported on Thursday that some of the shows under fire include "Family Guy," "Futurama," "Pokemon," "The Simpsons" and "Teletubbies," which the report says are, "projects aimed at the destruction of the family, and the promotion of drugs and other vices."
The Wall Street Journal reported that the study results first appeared on "fringe Catholic website Family Under the Protection of the Holy ? ."
While the accusations sound a bit silly, a 2011 study by a University of Virginia professor claimed that watching just nine minutes of SpongeBob could adversely affect the attention span and learning abilities of 4-year-olds.
The Ukrainian commission had previously attempted to ban other shows, including "The Simpsons."
Some of the accusations leveled against the programming in the study:
•SpongeBob Squarepants: "? "
•Teletubbies: "Deliberately aims to create subnormal (men), who spend all day in front of the television with their mouths open swallowing all types of information," and promotes the "psychology of losers."
•Shrek: "containing ? "
•South Park: "reincarnation propaganda"
•Japanese Anime: "A clear example of sexist propaganda"
The study concluded that the programming represents "a large-scale experiment on Ukrainian children" to "create criminals and perverts
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The Ukraine's National Expert Commission for Protecting Public Morality released the report, which attacks several U.S. and international programs as detrimental to the country.
Psychologist Irina Medvédeva is quoted in the study, alleging that children aged 3 to 5 years old, "pull faces and make jokes in front of adults they don't know, laugh out loud and repeat nonsense phrases in a brazen manner," after viewing the shows.
The Ukrainian paper Ukraínskaya Pravda reported on Thursday that some of the shows under fire include "Family Guy," "Futurama," "Pokemon," "The Simpsons" and "Teletubbies," which the report says are, "projects aimed at the destruction of the family, and the promotion of drugs and other vices."
The Wall Street Journal reported that the study results first appeared on "fringe Catholic website Family Under the Protection of the Holy ? ."
While the accusations sound a bit silly, a 2011 study by a University of Virginia professor claimed that watching just nine minutes of SpongeBob could adversely affect the attention span and learning abilities of 4-year-olds.
The Ukrainian commission had previously attempted to ban other shows, including "The Simpsons."
Some of the accusations leveled against the programming in the study:
•SpongeBob Squarepants: "? "
•Teletubbies: "Deliberately aims to create subnormal (men), who spend all day in front of the television with their mouths open swallowing all types of information," and promotes the "psychology of losers."
•Shrek: "containing ? "
•South Park: "reincarnation propaganda"
•Japanese Anime: "A clear example of sexist propaganda"
The study concluded that the programming represents "a large-scale experiment on Ukrainian children" to "create criminals and perverts
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so we're still blaming our problems on art? Lol, and Southpark isn't even a kids' show.
Nevermind that these guys are reaching, but even if what they said was true, they're only treating the symptoms. If anime is sexist, I doubt that this issue of sexism is originating from anime. The sexism in anime would just be reflection of a bigger problem. Instead of worrying about cartoons, they'd probably be a lot more successful diverting most of their attention towards gender relations, sociology of the family, etc. -
You mean "ban".
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it seems like the kind of people running with this argument are the kind of people who think "animation = kid's show."Lol, and Southpark isn't even a kids' show. -
Aye if any of you do a lot of travelling be careful with some of this stuff cuz what we take for granted or accept here they feel indifferent to in other parts of the world
I read that in some places like North Korea, Russia and Vietnam it's against the law to have pornography PERIOD. Like it could get you hemmed up just having it.
good point. sometimes we Americans tend to forget just how truly great this country is, at least in terms of its ideals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI
^^ And I guess 1:14-1:16 would be the response to North Korea, Russia, and Vietnam here. -
The spongebob one isnt new - republicans have been sayin that ? for years
