OT Spongebob Squarepants is Violent and Racist!

[ABM]

No, really....it's true.

https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/college-professor-says-spongebob-squarepants-is-violent-and-racist


SEATTLE, Wash. (WCYB) - A professor from the University of Washington has written an article claiming the cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants" shows racism and violence.

In the article "Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom," professor Holly Barker says the residents of Bikini Bottom, which is the town where SpongeBob lives, colonized the area by taking the land from native Bikinian people.

"The cartoon desensitizes viewers to the violence of settler colonialism, normalizes and erases the displacement of the Bikinian people from their ancestral land, and whitewashes US military rampages on the islands in the history and narratives of Bikini," Barker says in the article.

Barker goes on to state that SpongeBob and other residents destroy Bikini Bottom and exploit the Bikinian and Marshallese people of their resources.

The article was published in "The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs," which publishes political, economic and social articles as well as reviews for books and other media.

Nickelodeon has not issued a press release or statement about the article.

"SpongeBob Squarepants" was created by Stephen Hillenburg in the 1990s. Hillenburg passed away in 2018 after a battle with ALS.

The cartoon's producers and actors are celebrating the series' 20th anniversary this year.

 

[Hobbesarable]

No, really....it's true.

https://komonews.com/news/offbeat/college-professor-says-spongebob-squarepants-is-violent-and-racist


SEATTLE, Wash. (WCYB) - A professor from the University of Washington has written an article claiming the cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants" shows racism and violence.

In the article "Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom," professor Holly Barker says the residents of Bikini Bottom, which is the town where SpongeBob lives, colonized the area by taking the land from native Bikinian people.

"The cartoon desensitizes viewers to the violence of settler colonialism, normalizes and erases the displacement of the Bikinian people from their ancestral land, and whitewashes US military rampages on the islands in the history and narratives of Bikini," Barker says in the article.

Barker goes on to state that SpongeBob and other residents destroy Bikini Bottom and exploit the Bikinian and Marshallese people of their resources.

The article was published in "The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs," which publishes political, economic and social articles as well as reviews for books and other media.

Nickelodeon has not issued a press release or statement about the article.

"SpongeBob Squarepants" was created by Stephen Hillenburg in the 1990s. Hillenburg passed away in 2018 after a battle with ALS.

The cartoon's producers and actors are celebrating the series' 20th anniversary this year.

And the Smurfs are communists. Hahaha

 

[Strenuus]

What did you think about that Trump video then? You know, the one that is factually violent and racist?

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

These type of articles bother me and its usually some white person trying to act like their morally superior by finding something to target as rascist. When in reality all this does is make people ignore REAL bigotry, racism and violence. In my opinion if we want to really understand those things we gotta stop trying to find it in everything and LISTEN to black people, and other marginalized groups as to what things are racist to them.

 

[theprunetang]

I bet Bikini Bottoms doesn't have urinals anymore either.

 

[Chris Craig]

What did you think about that Trump video then? You know, the one that is factually violent and racist?

Hey that was a perfect video

 

[MARIS61]

Academics live their entire life in a room with artificial lights.

They are the least informed, least rational, least honest, least open-minded, least intuitive people in the world.

She probably got paid about $125 from the little magazine that published her.

FWIW, "Holly Barker" is a character in the Stuart Woods "Stone Barrington" series. She's a CIA agent hottie who sleeps around a bit.

 

[Lanny]

I bet Bikini Bottoms doesn't have urinals anymore either.

True story.
When I was in Korea for the first time, somewhere around 1979/1980. My wife and I and her girlfriend and her husband went to this very impressive night club with a cool bar all decorated Polynesian style and a really excellent band playing with a large dance floor. It was all great. First I noticed men dancing with each other. My wife's girlfriend's husband asked me to dance. I must have turned fifty shades of red and fumbled while trying to decline which I was finally able to do. However, I was even more shocked to see a trough unrinal near and in full view of the bar also where the dancers could also view what was going on. The urinal users at least had their backs to everyone else. Pretty damned weird.

 

[ABM]

True story.
When I was in Korea for the first time, somewhere around 1979/1980. My wife and I and her girlfriend and her husband went to this very impressive night club with a cool bar all decorated Polynesian style and a really excellent band playing with a large dance floor. It was all great. First I noticed men dancing with each other. My wife's girlfriend's husband asked me to dance. I must have turned fifty shades of red and fumbled while trying to decline which I was finally able to do. However, I was even more shocked to see a trough unrinal near and in full view of the bar also where the dancers could also view what was going on. The urinal users at least had their backs to everyone else. Pretty damned weird.

Just imagine if this bar were in Portland........urinals, I mean.

 

[Lanny]

Just imagine if this bar were in Portland........urinals, I mean.

I'm sure there are plenty of urinals in Portland, just not city hall.

 

[ABM]

I'm sure there are plenty of urinals in Portland, just not city hall.

I was just messin. Your bar story was, well.....just wrong.

 

[Lanny]

I was just messin. Your bar story was, well.....just wrong.

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that my story never happened? I guess either you have to take my word for it or my wife's word for it. Her girlfriend is long lost and her husband divorced her so my wife and I are the only remaining witnesses to corroborate the story.
That's probably not what you meant but otherwise I can't figure out your meaning.

 

[ABM]

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that my story never happened? I guess either you have to take my word for it or my wife's word for it. Her girlfriend is long lost and her husband divorced her so my wife and I are the only remaining witnesses to corroborate the story.
That's probably not what you meant but otherwise I can't figure out your meaning.

No, no...what I mean was that it was "just wrong" that there were trough urinals right out there in the midst of the dancing, etc. A cultural thing?

 

[Lanny]

No, no...what I mean was that it was "just wrong" that there were trough urinals right out there in the midst of the dancing, etc. A cultural thing?

That was one of several things that I thought you might have meant and it was the one I hoped you meant.

 

[Hoopguru]

True story.
When I was in Korea for the first time, somewhere around 1979/1980. My wife and I and her girlfriend and her husband went to this very impressive night club with a cool bar all decorated Polynesian style and a really excellent band playing with a large dance floor. It was all great. First I noticed men dancing with each other. My wife's girlfriend's husband asked me to dance. I must have turned fifty shades of red and fumbled while trying to decline which I was finally able to do. However, I was even more shocked to see a trough unrinal near and in full view of the bar also where the dancers could also view what was going on. The urinal users at least had their backs to everyone else. Pretty damned weird.

lmreo!
I heard inHS these days boys dance with each other, not meaning gay fellows thats cool, for an old dude it does seem different.
Hell, I grew up when some chicks stated to dance together. I though that was a bit weird.
But I must admit, I loved dancing nude in the mud tent at Vortex. I never admitted it but someone got a bunch of pics. It was mostly chicks in the tent though. I must have been drinking mad dog that day.

 

[MarAzul]

drinking mad dog

Do you mean 20 20?

 

[Hoopguru]

Do you mean 20 20?

yep...hated that stuff

 

[MarAzul]

yep...hated that stuff

You have to be made of stone to keep that stuff down!

 

[Lanny]

lmreo!
I heard inHS these days boys dance with each other, not meaning gay fellows thats cool, for an old dude it does seem different.
Hell, I grew up when some chicks stated to dance together. I though that was a bit weird.
But I must admit, I loved dancing nude in the mud tent at Vortex. I never admitted it but someone got a bunch of pics. It was mostly chicks in the tent though. I must have been drinking mad dog that day.

You were at Vortex? I was, too.
Guys in Asia also walk together while holding hands. My wife's girlfriend's husband asked if I wanted to hold hands while we walked somewhere. Egads, it was all I could do to politely decline. I wanted to scream my head off but I wanted to be polite.
By the way, it's not only men that hold hands in Asia but women do, also.
As for women dancing together, that's not unusual even here. I saw that when I was stationed in New Jersey in the Army. No, these women had nothing to do with the Army, they were civilians at a civilian bar.