https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/t...toon-1.4277561But when the show’s official Twitter account put out a bland call for “Black voices to be heard” recently, commenters came after Chase. “Euthanize the police dog,” they said. “Defund the paw patrol.” “All dogs go to heaven, except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.”
If you – as I have – worked on a TV show or movie in which police are portrayed as lovable goofballs, you have contributed to the larger acceptance that cops are implicitly the good guysIt’s a joke, but it’s also not. As US protests against racist police violence continue, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hearted cartoon police dogs – or maybe especially big-hearted cartoon police dogs – are on notice. The effort to publicise police brutality also means banishing the good-cop archetype, which reigns on both television and in viral videos of the protests themselves. Paw Patrol seems harmless enough, and that’s the point: the movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm.
Throw in in the pile of dumb leftists in America are lobbying for at the moment. So far they've gotten the tv show Cops and Live PD canceled as well.