Comments on: Arm Our Children With Media Studies! (Waddle oo tikoo dop?)

By: Paul Marks

Paul Marks — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:37:05 +0000

The serious point here is (of course) that “Media Studies” is yet another subject which pretends to be “critical” and even “scientific”, but is in fact full of, unchallenged, Marxist assumptions and ways of thinking.

To people who know the game the brainwashing efforts of the left are pathetic – but young people do not tend to know the game. They want to be “critical” indeed to be “rebels” – and such desires are taken advantage of, in order to lead the young people into total uncritical conformity. A state of being where every long refuted Marxist doctrine becomes a starting assumption for how they look at the world.

Of course the word “Marxist” (or even “socialist”) does not tend to be used in “Media Studies” and other such subjects at first (the ideas attacking business and other elements of civil society are first taught without their proper name) – only when the “education” process is advanced is the mask dropped.

Many people go through the education process without even knowing they have been taught Marxist doctrines (ideas that depend on Marxist assumptions – FALSE Marxist assumptions), but this lack of knowledge does not stop the education process having a negative effect, to a greater or lesser extent, on the people who are subjected to it.

By: Nuke Gray

Nuke Gray — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:55:17 +0000

well, this calls for a royal Commission, to find out what happened! Skippy, our friend, was never true? They used stand-ins? Oh, woe, alas, alack! No wonder she seemed dumb- they had to retrain each new ‘skippy’! what an indictment of our uncaring, capitalist, society with its’ throw-away attitude! Bring on the revolution now, I say!

By: Natalie Solent

Natalie Solent — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:34:04 +0000

It may be even worse than that for Skippy, Nuke Gray. I couldn’t swear to it being true, but I read somewhere that all those impossible seeming leaps over ravines etc. that she made actually were impossible. When one Skippy got used up they got a new one.

By: Nuke Gray

Nuke Gray — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:12:42 +0000

For some time, I have been worried about the rampant speciesism of that Australian classic, ‘Skippy, the Bush kangaroo.’ You may not have thought about it before, but you will agree with me that Skippy does all the real work. She is apparently able to communicate in Morse code, and can make her wishes known, but we are supposed to believe that she doesn’t want to join a union, or go to school! She knows her place- as an uneducated toiler for mere subsistence wages! This is no longer good enough! The whole show will need to be rewritten, with humans given smaller roles. Where is charles dickens when you really need him?

By: wh00ps

wh00ps — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:50:22 +0000

Of course, I also studied history and geography, in which i learned… socialism. It took a full 14 years to getthat out of on system!

By: wh00ps

wh00ps — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:41:27 +0000

Tim: funny that, despite going to a grammar school, the only grammar I learned was in German and French classes

By: Tendryakov

Tendryakov — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:00:46 +0000

Last time I heard Flemish, I would swear they were saying "Obba clobba dobba dop" . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcF9JSxkUSE

By: Tim Carpenter LPUK

Tim Carpenter LPUK — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:41:02 +0000

If kids were taught Literacy ( Reading, comprehending, critical reasoning, and communication/writing) then what benefit a degree. It is such a fundamental skill, yet much of my practice of this was in my Latin classes!

By: lucklucky

lucklucky — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:15:29 +0000

I suppose for the Guardian “Media Studies” mean: lets the children know how wonderful what we say in the news is the truth and what lies the others say.

By: Natalie Solent

Natalie Solent — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:06:01 +0000

Yorkshire? Yorkshire?? Them’s fighting words, Person. You shall not speak so of the glorious language of Flobadob!

Or have I just missed a joke?

By: PersonFromPorlock

PersonFromPorlock — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:59:47 +0000

Waddle oo tikoo dop?

Ther are times when the Yorkshire accent defeats me utterly.

By: J.M. Heinrichs

J.M. Heinrichs — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:01:42 +0000

Kalashnikovs??? Just spray and pray.
Better a SMLE No 1 Mk III*, or a No 4 Mk 2.

Cheers