qurlyjoeWGBH, Boston’s PBS station, had this sign up this morning.
Marcy Hartman@qurlyjoe I'm just so angry 😠
Baloo Uriza@qurlyjoe Hopefully soon it starts openly calling the entire Republican party and its membership an antiamerican terrorist organisation.
nantucketlit@qurlyjoe I owe a lot to that station. Anyone else remember "Zoom"?
@IanAMartin HAS MOVED!@nantucketebooks @qurlyjoe @eilonwy I can still sing the theme song. I grew up in the Vancouver BC area and @cascadepbs (KCTS-9) ran it for a few years. They had an Indian (not native) girl on it and she did this thing where you swing your arms back and forth against each other but you pivot them at the elbow and it looks like your arms actually go through each other because of an optical illusion created by the crossing of the forearms. I do it every once in a while even today; entirely subconsciously. People have commented on it and asked ‘what did you just do‽’ It’s fun.
I liked that show.
@IanAMartin @qurlyjoe @eilonwy @cascadepbs Can you speak Ubbi-Dubbi? That was my secret language in grade school. :-)
@nantucketebooks @qurlyjoe @eilonwy @cascadepbs Oh wow! I forgot about that! No, I never really worked out the exact method. Also, I was already a big weirdo in school and it was likely to make me an even bigger one, so I probably didn’t try all that hard as a result. Also, ‘educational programming’ or ‘Public Broadcasting’ were seen in my area as ‘dumb’ or with the response ‘what’s that?’ in that order. Mine was not a High Art & Literary Appreciating area.
Cascade PBS@IanAMartin @nantucketebooks @qurlyjoe @eilonwy That's Bernadette! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdEHNOGOQQw
Bernadette Arm Thing… But How?!
Grovewest@qurlyjoe In the Regan years I remember the independent producer I worked for renting studio time from PBS. One way they stayed afloat, will likely cut back some but are not going away.
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Coach Spore DieselI never knew this. Apparently, the ban didn't stick for very long, because I grew up on Sesame Street in Mississippi.
I looked it up and the show was voted down in April but the decision was reversed and it aired there June the same year.
Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦@springdiesel @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe Snopes on matter (it didn't air for 3 weeks):
https://www.snopes.com/articles/469729/mississippi-sesame-street-multiracial-cast/
johan@MatthewChat @qurlyjoe That’s 3 years after I was born. Horrifying
🎓 Doc Freemo 
🇳🇱Interesting fact, in 1970 Mississippi was overwhelmingly a Democratic, not Republican state. Whoever made this meme made an oopsie.
Alexandre Olivain "Worse than Slavery", I was surprised to read that there was a time in which the Democrats were more racist than the Republicans in the US. I don't recall when it was that it flipped. maybe it wasn't that long ago?
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The flip, like everything in politics, is a matter of opinion. But yea that is commonly described by many. generally 1870s is when the republicans moved right then early 1960s is when the democrats moved left. So there was a period there where there wasnt much left ideaology on either side.
libUnderseaMonkey.so 🇪🇺@MatthewChat @qurlyjoe @Andii Not to let the truth get in the way but Mississippi's State Legislature was 100% Democrat in 1970.
Andii אַנדִֽי@underseamonkey @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe
Really? Was that the so called 'dixiecrat' sort? Going back to the strange meanderings of which party was on which side in the civil war? (Brit here, still working out details of USaican political history)
Really? Was that the so called 'dixiecrat' sort? Going back to the strange meanderings of which party was on which side in the civil war? (Brit here, still working out details of USaican political history)
@Andii @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe The late 60s, early 70s is a tipping point across the south politically where the Republicans start to become the home party for white race focused voters and the northern Liberal wing of the Democrats finally supplants the historic racist wing in the south. Historically, it had been the Democrats who were the party of slavery for example, the Republican party was founded specifically to counter slavery and was a northern party. 1/2
@underseamonkey @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe
So, in a sense, the labels flipped in this regard during the 1960s?
And is this anything to do with the phenom I have seen mentioned a few times, that there are areas in the South where only republicans stand for election?
So, in a sense, the labels flipped in this regard during the 1960s?
And is this anything to do with the phenom I have seen mentioned a few times, that there are areas in the South where only republicans stand for election?
@Andii @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe Yes, the constituencies of the two main parties in the south reverse, in the case of the Democrats becoming more aligned with the northeastern liberalism we generally associate with the party (though that too was only a 20th C phenomenon) and on the Republicans, becoming what we see now, yes, becoming the party of "Dixie". As for only GOP candidates standing on some elections, I don't now but it chimes, that there could be districts where Dems can't find a candidate
@Andii @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe (Of course, it's far more complex and nuanced than this but as I understand it, those are the broad strokes - further research required as one would put at the end of an academic paper as a backside covering clause.)
@underseamonkey @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe
at this point broad brush strokes is fine. Covering backsides can wait..
at this point broad brush strokes is fine. Covering backsides can wait..
@Andii @MatthewChat @qurlyjoe http://therestishistory.com episode 511 is well worth a listen on how this played out in the context of the 1968 presidential election.
Debbie Belair@MatthewChat @qurlyjoe That's sick.