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Title: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: rayra on September 25, 2009, 04:09:13 PM Quote Maybe Next Time, Glenn… September 24th, 2009, posted by Annie Leonard We deeply appreciate the generous outpouring of support our Project has received over the past 48 hours in response to Glenn Beck’s continuing attack against the use of The Story of Stuff in classrooms across the country. We created The Story of Stuff to get people thinking and talking. The result over the past two years—not to mention the past two days—speaks for itself. The messages we’ve received from thousands of teachers and students who’ve seen the film—some of whom thoroughly disagreed with it—gives us confidence that young people are not only fully capable of engaging with the subject matter in the Story of Stuff, they’re asking for it. After all, they are the ones who will have to address climate change and the other environmental and social side effects of our throw away culture. Beck’s line of attack appears to be motivated by the release of his new book: Arguing with Idiots. But we have better things to do. We’re developing a two-week educational curriculum—aligned to national standards, with a strong focus on critical thinking—that provides teachers with a fuller set of tools to help students consider and debate the message of The Story of Stuff. In response to requests from thousands of faith-based institutions for more information, we’re field-testing a study program that helps people of faith explore how their religious beliefs connect with the message of The Story of Stuff. We’re also in production on a set of new short films, the first of which we’ll be releasing this November. We appreciate the new viewers, Facebook friends, contributions and other support that Beck has generated for us, but rather than respond to his outrageous claims, we’re going to stay focused on building the more sustainable, safe and just world our children, and all of us, deserve. Thanks, Annie Leonard and the Story of Stuff Project Team The clips I've seen from this school-indoctrination-foisted short film are absolutely stuffed with liberal lies and distortions. Far as I'm concerned, this pack of venal propagandists should be burned alive. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Pandora on September 25, 2009, 04:20:42 PM Well, you win.
I was going to go with a punch in the face. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Mike C. on September 25, 2009, 04:22:09 PM Never heard of it.
Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Pandora on September 25, 2009, 04:25:07 PM Oh, it's rich, Mike.
She says, "some of my friends say I should use a tank to represent the government...becaus e other countries, blah, blah, blah". But she's talking about OUR government. Punch in the face, burned alive. Can't decide, can't decide. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Mike C. on September 25, 2009, 05:23:28 PM So what the hell is it ? Where is it ?
Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: nbpundit on September 25, 2009, 05:47:59 PM If critical thinking is to be developed the education of kids should be the classics, hard sciences,
language, math, history, government/civics, music/art/foreign languages, and physical education. All this other crapola needs to be tossed with the propagandists who push it. Like pandora, which choice in getting rid of them. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Pandora on September 25, 2009, 06:16:44 PM So what the hell is it ? Where is it ? I don't know. I heard the audio of it on the radio. Wait.... Here's a link. It's a Google video; I'm not sure how to post. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7886122881288756203# (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7886122881288756203#) HEY, LOOKIT THAT! IT POSTED ITSELF! KEWL. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Mike C. on September 25, 2009, 06:38:14 PM Okay, by 1:15 I was ready to smash my laptop with a sledge hammer, so I shut it off. Never mind.
Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: bonz on September 25, 2009, 06:38:23 PM 50% of our taxes go to the military?
Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: rayra on September 25, 2009, 06:39:28 PM It's horrific and it's being shoveled in thousands of elementary schools across this country. The video tells lie after lie, building a massive deceit against capitalism and our national history/culture. It's HATE AMERICA in a sketchy cartoon with a bland face of evil as a narrator. It sows the seeds of socialist / eco-marxist crap in young fertile minds at an age where they do not doubt or question adult authority. Big Government is Good. Corporations are Evil. The child audience is being programmed and after that anything that doesn't fit that worldview won't get internalized.
Tides Foundation paid for this. Should pay for this. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: RTLM on September 25, 2009, 06:54:04 PM This isn't happening at my boy's school, and its not going to to start. The urban center shit holes are in their accelerating state of decline exactly because of this type of rotgut.
Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: John Florida on September 25, 2009, 07:17:44 PM This isn't happening at my boy's school, and its not going to to start. The urban center shit holes are in their accelerating state of decline exactly because of this type of rotgut. The shame of it is that the parents don't find out till the cat is out of the bag. In the meanwhile the deed is done and they win. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: Pandora on September 25, 2009, 07:49:12 PM Okay, by 1:15 I was ready to smash my laptop with a sledge hammer, so I shut it off. Never mind. Whaddaya mean, "nevermind"?? Too late. You asked, I found it and you watched it. There's no "nevermind". /yeah, I wish I could unsee, unhear, unexperience and unknow a whole lot of things. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: EW1(SG) on September 25, 2009, 09:22:53 PM Okay, by 1:15 I was ready to smash my laptop with a sledge hammer, so I shut it off. Never mind. It was "linear system on a finite planet" that did it, maybe? /Mine went off at the same spot, and I wasn't watching...just listening. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: John Florida on September 25, 2009, 10:05:32 PM Okay, by 1:15 I was ready to smash my laptop with a sledge hammer, so I shut it off. Never mind. It was "linear system on a finite planet" that did it, maybe? /Mine went off at the same spot, and I wasn't watching...just listening. But the kids were a captive audience they didn't have the option of walking away. Nor did they have the benefit of the facts. All they could do is believe what their school put in front of them and believe it because they trust them. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: OrsonBuggy on September 26, 2009, 01:57:48 PM I noticed the narrator was wearing clothes. Isn't that "stuff"? I wonder if she walked to the studio that day or ate food cooked on manufactured items?
These people should be beaten and sent to live in the jungle naked. Title: Re: 'Story of Stuff' propagandists double down... Post by: backhoe on September 26, 2009, 04:16:16 PM I noticed the narrator was wearing clothes. Isn't that "stuff"? I wonder if she walked to the studio that day or ate food cooked on manufactured items? These people should be beaten and sent to live in the jungle naked. I agree in theory, but what I'd really like to do, with all of them? Put them in Cuba... As peasants... See how they like The Worker's Paradise and all that left wing theorizing-- but not as an elite, as a common person who can't game the system. |