I Read Some Wild Conservative Kids Books
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These are some ridiculous books. Words cannot express how crazy some of this all is, but I gave it a shot.
To answer what I'm sure people will be asking in the comments, yes, the art in these books is terrible. Matt Walsh's book in particular is bad, though that may be, in part, because the pdf version is shoddily put together. The hard copy isn't much better though, and I couldn't be bothered tracking down a physical copy of the thing.
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I have some Context for Jonny the Walrus. Samantha Lux made a Video about the Book, and Matt responded, and from his Response it turned out very clear how he sees things.
A Chikd could never claim to be Trans, cause no sane Parent would take there Child seriously. The Parents decide for the Child, the Child has no integrity.
The Idea of the Childrensbook was, how Parents, or Activists push an Agenda on others, and force Children into Roles they not signed up whit.
His Book whit his own Words is for the Parents, not the Child. Cause he doesnt think a Parent would respect there Child, and let them decide on there own.
He doesnt even allow his Kids to decide what to eat at a Restaurant.
@@Sunaki1000Matt destroyed him it wasn't even funny.
@@externalboss9404 "Her", and its easy to destroy someone in a oneway Conversation. She did indeed make a followup Video debunking his Counterarguments again.
He had nothing of value to say, besides him abusing his Children.
"The AR-15 is like a lego toy for adults" I grew up being told the exact opposite, that a gun isn't a toy and can cause real harm if not carefully handled.
That sounds way more stupid than ANYTHING Bubsy has ever said.
I grew up being told the same about hammers and axes
Humanity is really f*cked in the head to actually put an actual weapon as a toy
I’ve been taught that too. Guns are very deadly weapons and when used in the wrong way, people will get hurt.
the last thing you should tell your child is that a gun is a TOY 😨
@@sorentothesky Exactly. As a European, I give you all a collective face-palm on behalf of all European nations for those conservative gun crazies having the gall to say that a gun is a toy. I've never owned a gun and even I know it's not. It's common sense, for duck's sake!
I've been part of a writer's circle for children's authors for many years. Fun fact: the most common piece of advice that's passed around is "the child protagonist must resolve the conflict." Kids usually identify with the protagonist of a story (that's what a protagonist is for), and child protagonists can model effective problem-solving and positive behavior. We spend a lot of time looking at our stories from a child's perspective and considering how a developing mind would receive certain story elements.
I can't help but notice that each of these examples features passive child characters whose conflicts are resolved by doing exactly what author-insert adults tell them. The kids don't solve problems; they obey orders.
Not only have these "authors" not bothered to learn how kids' fiction works, I'm pretty sure they've never test-read these books to actual children (a thing we also do). Almost like they don't consider the possibility that kids are people...🙄
I mean these are conservatives. The moral of the story being 'blindly obey parents and adult pundits' is par for the course.
Johnny the Walrus sadly was read to younger kids in FL tho only after release but naturally their parents agreed/wanted this so the kids were primed to lean Conservative already. Even so tho, they barely listened as the lesson isn't for them and the one who was the most vocal started wrestling some other kid, pure chaos lol.
Also thank you for the work you do. Children's books really are an important aspect of their lives and it's such a shame going from a wholesome classic of "Goodnight Moon" that I still have fond memories of to "Why everyone needs an AR-15".
That's what it comes down to. Conservatives don't think children are capable of independent thought. They believe children are little automatons, and the job of adults is to insert the "correct ideas" into their brains.
I think that's because, to conservatives, especially those on the Religious Right, kids are property that must be subdued and dominated until they are old enough to pass their trauma onto the next generation. I don't know if Matt Walsh ever read the work of Michael Pearl, but his view of children is not so far from Pearl's view: that they're sinful little rebels, not to be trusted at all. (Seriously, Google To Train Up a Child if you have a strong stomach. It's a horror show of a read.)
@@berjanbeen7188 Yeah, but the stories are so badly written and so poor at holding the listener's attention that the kids won't absorb the lesson. 😂 It's just a waste of time and paper. If they remember these books at all, it will be to resent their parents later on for inflicting garbage polemics on them.
Kids aren't even gonna understand the trans allegory in Johnny the Walrus, so what lesson do you think they're gonna walk away with instead? "Don't play pretend too much, or your parent(s) will take it seriously and there will be horrifying consequences"?
gee what a good lesson to teach to literal kids, matt!
Remember not to play pretend as soldiers too much, or else your parents will send you to literal fucking war.
YES, I was thinking just the same. Playing pretend is very important for the development of a child. Children are absolutely going to interpret this book wrongly. Learning your kids that playing pretend is wrong can actually be damaging to their upbringing.
You can't be serious... this is obviously not a kids book, no one with even half a mind thinks that. The protagonist is the mother, she is the one learning the lesson in the end. It's political satire, even the crappy drawings are part of the satirization. How can this fly over so many peoples' heads. The message is something along the lines of "don't throw your kid from a skyscraper only because it pretends to be superman, disregard others that try to tell you that you are a bigot for not confusing pretend play for an identity". I'm not religious, but Jesus help us if people are this oblivious...
@@KangMinseok Matt Walsh literally promoted it by reading it to a group of children. He refers to it constantly as his 'children's book'. I completely agree that it's not written for kids at all, but Matt certainly markets it as a book to read to your children. I'm sure many conservative parents will do just that.
I just had a seriously great idea.
Re-write Johnny the Walrus to be about a literal walrus who lives in a human society, and how he has to adapt to a world not built for him. I think it would really help kids understand how to see things from different perspectives.
"Johnny wants to go shopping, but there is just one BIG issue! Johnny can't fit through the front door anymore! He just grew too big to fit. The shopkeeper and Johnny are great friends! The shopkeeper tries many ways to help Johnny get into the store. He tried pushing and pulling, but no matter how hard he tried, he just wouldn't fit. Sadly, Johnny had to go home with nothing to buy. That night, the shopkeeper had an idea. He built a new door. It was big enough for Johnny to fit. The next day, Johnny visited the store once again, surprised about the new door. Other customers complained that the door was too big. Some demanded that the store goes back to using the old door. But there was nothing wrong with the new door. It can fit everyone."
"Many people seem scared of change, it's a problem in our modern world. But don't worry! Their fear will calm eventually, they just need to hear what's good about the change from the right voice. Maybe that voice is yours?"
Please note that I am really exhausted as of writing this, I can barely keep my eyes open. Please don't be too critical of my work if there are any mistakes, I wrote this with good intentions.
A perfect analogy, even with sleep deprivation.
Dang
This is what a Matt Walsh from
a universe where he’s a good writer and not anywhere near a fascist and halfway decent as a person
I am the eggman
I loved this. Thank you for keeping your eyes open long enough to write it! Hopefully it finds its way to real pages.
Okay, but a girl, her grandma, and a wolf deciding to live together after wrecking a lumberjack is exceptionally based
It lost me at grandma jumping out of wolf's mouth...A better adaptation would be red saving grandma without the hunter's help.
@@justinlindfors8512 yeah teach kids to fight a Wolf instead of ask for help, good job, you killed a kid and a grandma, but the vegans will be happy
@@justinlindfors8512 When I was a kid, and was asked at school to retell a fairytale, I replace the wolf with a tiger and had red EATING THE TIGER.
The teacher was not impressed.
@@Nocturnalux lol. At least she didn't eat grandma.
like i heard it and was like so you mean all they had to do was talk to the wolf and he not only didnt eat them but now that got a sick ass wolf that protects his new family... how is that a worse story
Okay but you didn't have to drag my cats into this.
We need their blessed presence to undo the curse of these books.
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@@JoseBird I know that this is a tangent but after watching both your Murphy Brown analysis and the analysis of Frasier I've gotta say that I was shocked, it seemed like you completely ignored all the toxic masculinity in Frasier while also shitting all over Murphy Brown for being sexist when Murphy Brown was (for the time it came out) one of the most progressive and anti-sexist shows in the history of television, how come?
@@xp8969 He made a very strong point in the Frasier video that the women in Frasier are mostly "excluded" from the conversation, especially Daphne who is objectified. Like, he calls it out pretty pointedly. For a good 15 minutes, even.
It’s kinda sad that books that feature two parents of the same sex are considered “left wing books”
Update: stop picking fights in the replies. Straight parents aren’t a political statement so gay parents aren’t. It’s crazy how angry gay people make others calm down it does not affect you
Being a decent human being is being "leftist" according to the internet.
@@eymed2023 It's sad to see people fucked up in a whole level enough to think having a 'lifestyle = political ideology I think it's bad'.
Well there's nothing inherently wrong with a same sex couple, I can see why some parents wouldn't want their kids to see that. But let's be honest, most kids aren't gonna care and it will go over their head as long as the story is interesting.
@@gecko2738 Yeah to be honest kids don’t care if it’s two men or two women, or a man who used to be a woman, because kids don’t associate it with politics and at most would say “oh cool” then try and read the actual story
@@whyisyes3957 I actually disagree, from personal experience I can tell you that when I was 4-5 and asked my mom if two women can marry each other (bc that was my understanding of love back then) and she said yes, my mind was blown. I was just like "wow, you can do that, I wanna do that" then after several years I realised I was pansexual. So for a gay child learning that what they are feeling is valid can be groundbreaking.
However, I don't really like it when books make it seem out of the ordinary or make an effort to pint it out. The series called "The Popularity Papers" for example does it perfectly, one of the twom protagonists is adopted and has gay dads, however it's never mentioned that they are gay or even married if I recall correctly. The girl calls hem Dad and Daddy and that's about it. It's not shown as something out of the ordinary. The only "mention" you could point out is a line that says that "Dad's parents don't really like Daddy" or something along those lines. Pretty good book series tnh, I'd recommend it for teens or preteens.
IMO the trans allegory of the walrus book will probably go right over kids' heads, but it might instill discouragement in other ways. "You're not a doctor, you're just a boy in a white coat" or "You're not an artist, you're just a girl with a crayon" etc etc. It's all kinds of harmful.
The book is obviously not meant for kids, anyone suggesting that is an idiot. It's the mother who learns the lesson in the end, the kid is almost just a bystander to the story. It's political satire. It's not harmful to warn a mother from over-interpreting a child's fantasy.
@@KangMinseok literally no one needs that lesson, it doesn't happen
@@rovoska of course it happens - though the responsibility lies more with the doctors of course (who are under the same social pressure as the parents). Unless you subscribe to the idea that gender identity can change suddenly at any point, every single detransitioner is to be considered proof of misdiagnosis. If gender identity can change just like that, permanent transition should probably not be a viable solution anyway.
@@KangMinseok What child is having permanent transition surgeries? Do you have any examples of this happening, because if it is that would be concerning.
@@KangMinseok gender identity can chance, but permanent transition is no different from not transitioning for adults, aka their own free choice.
As far as kids go, a haircut, new wardrobe, and a different name are hardly permanent. Teens taking anything but puberty blockers and getting surgery is a horrible idea, but its also a horrible idea to let them get cosmetic surgery yet conservatives have no issue with it.
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@@wesleynichols1873 I bet money the person that invented liberal propaganda also invented the red scare.
@@wesleynichols1873 "NO U"
That doesn't even make sense.
@Maxlaxian Empire Aaah, but you see, the fact I did not include any determiner in the meme makes it ambiguous whether I meant "some" or "all".
And I will never specify MWAHAHAHAHA
So, conservative childrens books are basically someone jingling keys to conservative adults reading the books. I also find it funny that they made a book about AR 15s for children, and theyre still gonna blame video games.
To be fair, they did include a disclaimer that you shouldn't use an AR-15 without an adult. In their minds, the fact that the Uvalde shooter waited until he turned 18 to legally purchase his guns means their lessons are working.
Lol, @ “jingling the keys” 😄 very accurate
Has anyone with any real platform blamed video games for violence in the last decade? I think we should move away from that talking point, it doesn’t ring true and has no bite. The right wing has moved way, way beyond that quaint little 90s reasoning.
@@dingdongism Ted Cruz
@@janefkrbtt Yeah, he included that in a laundry list of things which included not going to church, absent fathers, drug abuse, etc. I’d argue that its inclusion in this list illustrates my point pretty well, because the accusation of video games causing violent behavior has so lost its pep that it must be thrown in with a generic laundry list of conservative grievances. 20-30 years ago, video games alone were the boogeyman and you could get a lot of political mileage out of demonizing them.
I remember “help! mom! There are liberals under my bed!” because my dad had a copy which I found on his shelf in about 2004 when I was 7. But he never read it to me or even told me about it, because he bought it as a novelty item for himself. I can’t even imagine a parent genuinely reading these to a kid lmao.
ngl I want a copy, but I don't wanna give any money to anyone willing to own it unironically.
perhaps stealing it would be better? or would I get shot?
@@justanotherleftieYou would most definitely get shot!
@@justanotherleftie i'm sure the author would gladly send you a free copy so you could 'educate local youths' with it... y'know, bc they're allll about looking after kids, family values & goood ole-fashioned generosity those cons.
/s
@@sjs9698 omg good point
@@sjs9698honestly though, some of these might.
Its funny how many people are genuinely afraid of men wearing skirts.
Keep your ideology to yourself Western Man
@@kaznjenik111 Cry about it pendejito
@@Sicilianus Tell that to Scotland
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@@kaznjenik111 We agree on that, they have the hottest guys
“Help, Mom, there are liberals under my bed.” Sounds like a parody of these types of books food lord
Exactly the problem... it's a kids-book-parody for adults, being sold as a kid's book. Poe's law in reverse: sufficiently stupid writing is indistinguishable from comedy.
wanna write a left wing version i think it has potential as representation of how annoying the conflation between liberals, Democrats and leftists is. The liberal is an unseen monster that talks over the kid and causes mischief that always gets blamed on the kid. As the book goes on its get less metaphoric starting with things like all the cookies being eaten and the monster saying mean things to other kids and near the end its just "No, the anti work movement isn't just about better labour conditions, people shouldn't have to choose between working and not dying"
and without the stupid caricatures of real people
thats about where my ideas end, anyone else wanna pitch in
Food lord
@@spadinnerxylaphone2622 all glory upon Him, our Lord of Food
@SpaDinner Xylophone you mean the Flying Spaghetti Monster ?
"The government is like pirates because it takes your things" ah yes kids notoriously hate pirates and never think those are cool or good
Seriously the fact that the Tuttle kid thinks of this guy being forced to walk the plank when he hears/thinks about pirates, AKA a negative/scary thing, is an example of why conservatives don't understand how kids work (and why these books are BS).
It's their version of Peter Pan.
Yep! Because no kid has ever had a pirate hyperfixation that lead into growing up collecting, researching, or reading and watching a bunch of pirate based things (aka my friend who likes a lot of pirate era things, history, and fictional pirates as well. Also biggest One Piece nerd I know, haha!)
To be fair, the US government operates exactly like pirates. They kill and plunder to instill fear in their enemies and to get what they want. Conservatives just think the government is like pirates because of taxes and regulations saying that you can't discriminate against black people.
yup.
The gov is the mafia. That's pretty evident.
I took a class on writing children's books, and Matt Walsh's book does everything that class told me not to do. The biggest lesson we learned is that the main character should have agency. The problem should always be solved by them. Not by their parents, not by some outside force, not by the author's self-insert, but by the character themselves. This encourages the children to make their own decisions, and trust their own feelings. The fact that his book doesn't do that tells you a lot about how he views children.
I have a interesting theory about Matt Walsh. 😉
"Don't think, Obey"
A villains mother.
I always love when people's comeback to a transrights conversation is "I heard a story from someone who knew a girl who wants to be indenitfed as a pencil, paper, a desk,etc" Like they have to make up the most extreme case of gender indenty to prove there "points" that trans people are crazy.
And that is why people hate the far right. You can't reason with them. In fact MAGA (make America great again) checks every single box for the qualifications to be a cult. That means that they are basically brainwashed and can't be reasoned with without deprogramming them first.
Fr. and they bring up people who detransition as if people who detransition arent the very small (though completely valid) group they are
For example: the infamous comeback of “then I identify as an attack helicopter”
Like they wanna prove trans people wrong so badly
Two people I used to hang out with said they’re against trans people because: “men used to dress up as women to r4pe women in jail”. I said, if they did it just to r4pe women, they’re NOT trans people. They’re r4pists. Eh, they’re still transphobic, a waste of time.
Yeah dude they're really all just a bunch of insecure losers angry that others are happy with themselves. It's pathetic honestly.
I'm left with the mental image of a conservative parent, anxiously consulting twitter because her son leapt down the stairs claiming to be Spider-Man.
Lol conservative parents don't have twitter..
@@syckles They have Truth Social instead.
There are several distinct personalities going on in there. One is named "Postman Butters" and yet another is "Fireman Butters." And then there's even "Inspector Butters" and uh, "Professor Chaos"
Dont worry, a zookeeper will explain that their child was just pretending.
At which point she will take advice from Matt Walsh, and confiscate everything related to Spider-Man from her child, all to remind them that they have nothing to call their own. (In other words, to remind the child that they *are* nothing, and the parents can easily crush them.)
Not to ignore the important part about transphobia here bit walrus boy was barking and clapping? Those are not typically done by walruses in the first place. Those are common traits in seals and sea lions not walruses. Either someone needs to actually explain to this kid what a walrus is or, more likely, someone needs to explain to Matt Walsh what a walrus is.
im gonna make a documentary called "What is a Walrus?" but it's actually just me reading the wikipedia page in walruses for 45 minutes
And he says he's a biologist
Well the problem is that, what does a walrus do that most people recognize as 'walrus like' most people would confuse a walrus and a seal. And even if it was Johnny the Seal, how could you distinguish that he was a seal?! It just doesn't really make sense. Not defending it or anything just saying.
Wait, so that means that Walsh's own transphobic analogy falls apart, because the kid was misgendered as a Walrus, when in actuality he was a Sea-Lion
like when someone says "i'm not a girl because I don't like dresses"?
Hey, LEGO for adults.. that's called LEGO? Or model kits?
Are you going to unbuild your AR-15 and build back into a cool robot? Huh?
Actually yes it's 10x more expensive but I can do it
Conservatives probably find Legos too childish, they think being a real man involves holding a killing machine.
You could probably dismantle it, melt it and reforge it into one, but that takes a lot more work than just disassembling it and reassembling it like lego
As an illustrator it’s soul crushing how poorly designed these books are. They don’t care about children, they care about themselves convincing their children of their bs.
They remind me of those myspace/deviantart 'artists' who defended poor skills with 'that's my style!' Then again, what self-respecting illustrator would read those stories and accept the job? Sure, you have to have bread on the table but a bit less bread is acceptable in this case imho.
It's written that way to insult the intelligence of it's readers.
I'm kinda glad they couldn't get better illustrators to do these jobs tbh. Good call to avoid this poison.
Bruh most of these books are designed for the parents, as any good children's book should be. The children most of the time don't even really care at those ages about the story, they mostly care about the pictures. The story is in words a kid could understand, but the story is designed for the parent.
You know what's actually bs? Trying to convince children that they can be whatever "gender" they want to be, ignoring basic biology
It's great to see that Walsh was able to scrape together ten bucks to pay an 8yr old to illustrate his fantastic book.
And what a return on investment, as he is a best selling children's author now.
"U mad" 😆
U from 2010?
@@syckles A best selling author of a kid's book written for adults lol
@@syckles his daily wire boyfriend Mickey Knobs is a bestselling author for a book with 200 blank pages. Conservative suckers will buy anything.
That's what I thought. The art looks like middle schoolers first deviantart account.
So essentially these books are weird because they're marketed as being for children, but written as they're for adults at a child's reading level?
They're also full of bogus arguments and badly drawn.
To be fair tho conservatives read at a kid's level
Yeah, first time meeting an american?
i was gonna say, so they are finally speaking with their demographic then.
@@xp8969 Conservatives reason at a kid's level.
Far right:protect the kids!
Also the far right: let's put guns in a children's book and say that it's a toy
Man I really hate that kids books about the Gays(tm) are considered left wing when it's just...a natural human difference kids should be aware of.
Except, it isn't natural. Nature wouldn't work if men found men attractive and women found women attractive, no one would reproduce. It's a concept designed by humans. Not saying it's a new concept, but it most definitely isn't natural, implying it's made by nature. It's something people are raised into till the point it becomes "natural" to some people.
As a conservative myself, I wholeheartedly agree
Especially since "And Tango Makes Three" is based on a true story, whereas most propaganda is based on hypothetical.
It does kinda piss me off that being supportive of LGBT people is considered "left wing" when it _should_ be considered basic human decency.
Its not natural lmao
Man I really hate those kids books about women being adult human females are considered right wing when it's just...what absolutely everyone was saying just 5 years ago.
I can't get over the fact Matt Walsh didn't just add himself into a children's book as the voice of reason, but he also made himself extra buff and wear cool shades.
This is such a unique brand of pathetic.
That might have been the artist taking the p!$$ and the author saying, "well, if you insist..."
average criticism of conservative ideology
its like a 9yr old bragging about how cool they are
It’s actually much creepier when you take into account that he has openly admitted his sexual interest in children
@@SarastistheSerpent16 year olds, not 8-13, but yeah. Pretty creepy
"the bad guys in government take my things and give them to others without my permission. Sometimes they take my things to keep for themselves, or give away to their friends instead of helping the needy"
In other words, civil forfeiture bad, wealth redistribution good. I don't think that's what they meant to say, but that's unambiguously what they said.
Civil forfeiture is a cop thing, so that's probably the one instance of "the government taking your stuff" they're okay with.
Another reason why conservatives are crap writers; they're unwilling to explore the ramifications of their beliefs and propaganda.
Since I'm in the South the "bad guys in government take my things!" part makes me think the followup could easily be "You mean slaves?" lol.
Epic
@@OneEyeShadow Usually in that case, it's "civil forfeiture good--for those people over there, never ever for me no matter what I do"
“Help mom! There are liberals under my bed!”
“How the fuck did we all fit under this kids bed!?”
Sounds like the poor kid needs some major deprogramming.
The most I’ve laughed this week
liberals are thin af and rarely fat (nvm all those body positivity stuff) so yeah
Little did they know, it was a bunk bed.
I think books teaching kids gay people exist shouldn’t even be political
It really shouldn't be but yknow in modern day everything is hyper political
@American Nationalist gAy iS wRoNg mf you're acting like you have any chance of being the breaking point for gays like me who hear this same boring shit 7 and half separate times a week
@American Nationalist
The comment posted here has nothing to do with opinions about gay people, just about teaching kids that they exist. Gay people do exist. It’s not a matter of opinion, or a matter of politics, just a piece of true information.
@americannationalist1345It’s wrong by *your* standards, and considering that you believe fascists are good, your morals aren’t very humane.
@American Christian Nationalist you can't be christian and nationalist at the same time, that means your faith is just a facade, that you don't really understand the teachings you claim to be a part of your identity
"Guys, no one over the age of 10 is naive enough to eat our BS anymore. Should we change?"
"No one OVER the age of 10, you say? Great idea!"
Now conservatives have one more thing in common with the christian churches
Nobody with a MENTAL age over 10.
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I actually read “politically correct bedtime stories” a few years back, and I honestly thought it was a satire of how the right thinks the left is. It seemed way to over the top to have been written by a conservative being mildly serious
Jeff, I'm the author's daughter, and he's voted blue/green down the ticket in every election of his life. It's a leftist satire of shallow cash-in PC-in-name-only books of the time, joking that we should deconstruct the tropes even further. But hey, if Republicans bought it, joke's on them.
You have to be able to laugh at yourself. We still voted for Hillary together ten years after he wrote her as the Wicked Witch of the West. After all, the Wizard of Dubya was worse.
the conservatives have been so divorced from reality they need thise kinds of stories
The bits that Jose read out actually made me laugh. Genuinely - I thought that the wood-chopper person being lectured by Red about mansplaining, basically, and Grandma, Red and the wolf living happily ever after was hilarious, and in many ways more thought provoking than the original ending.
Funniest part is that if it was a satire it would be awesome to be honest
That is basically what it is - although there are extremists on the far left who come close to this. I’m an old hippy, feminist & progressive but I do recognize there are extremists on both sides.
This book is satire.
Inside perspective: "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" isn't really in this category. James Finn Garner has been on the left all his life.
He was making fun, not of political correctness, but of the early-1990s spate of shallow politically correct language pasted in stories whose tropes weren't substantially deconstructed. "If you were really politically correct, you wouldn't say 'womyn' but still have the huntsman rescue the grandma from the wolf. She would jump out and call out the tropes."
It's not a bitter right-wing critique against overreaching wokeness. It's a playful left-wing critique-ad-absurdum against underreaching fauxkeness.
Several times, he was invited to right-wing news shows to interview on this totally right-wing bestselling book, and he'd be so sarcastic the host would break composure and laugh, until they didn't notice he wasn't actually agreeing with them. It was a delicate dance, but it may not have made the bestseller list without that plausible deniability for a right wing audience. A later book, "Recut Madness: Favorite Movies Retold For Your Partisan Pleasure" ("He is Spartacus! And we've got the birth certificate to prove it!") whose centerpiece was a scathing "Wizard of Dubya" sold like six hundred copies. Even the Cowardly Donkey singing "If I Only Had A Spine" didn't fool anyone; his critique came from left-of-Dem.
So yeah. P.C.B.S. (yes, the acronym was part of the joke) was responding to a cultural milieu that no longer exists. It's still popular in the parts of Europe where the right wing still dodges Poe's law; his latest works (the "Rex Koko, Private Clown" series) are in circus-themed noir detective fiction. It has a longer shelf life, and no competition.
I just can't lump him with all the authors who don't believe in trans kids. Since one of his daughters is trans, and he's been nothing but supportive of us both.
Source: I'm his daughter.
Nice! That end was a twist I was not expecting, but made me very happy to hear! Thanks for clearing this up!
This comment should be higher up
Reply for bump because oh my god
I thought this was titled “I Read Some Wild Conservation Kids Books” I was thinking ‘oh that’s nice! Kids books about wildlife conservation’ :,)
I wish.
The few things conservatives don’t want to conserve funny enough.
@@JustAnotherNamelessGuytechnically they do. Just that they care more about the status quo and current power structures than actually contributing to stopping climate change
The whole stupid thing about that Johnny the Walrus book is that he DIDN'T want to be a Walrus, he pretended to be one time and his mother pushed it on him even though he clearly wasn't interested in the transition. I know this is because Matt doesn't think kids are capable of wanting to transition, but I feel like the real takeaway should have been to listen to your actual child.
agreed and the over the top cr33py details don't even try to match up with real life social tr@ns1t10n.
yeah listen to your child, but don't be a fkn idiot and give in to their every whim. My kid wants to be a dinosaur and eat ice cream for dinner... I'm not getting him dino implants and ice cream.
It is pointing out how some (not all) parents push their child to be gay. A child might say he is a girl, and then the parents go on social media and brag about their child being trans as a form of virtue signaling. This isn't all people, but there are plenty (who are typically about as left as you can get) that do do it.
Plot twist: Matt Walsh promotes drag. Nice 😎. Still transphobic trash tho.
If the child wants to be called a different gender than so what? I mean seriously aren’t we the land of the free? And the right to choose?
Remember: Indoctrinating children is bad when we pretend schools do it but it is totally cool when parents do it.
It's only indoctrination when someone you disagree with is doing it. When your own 'side' is writing the propaganda, it's just common sense.
Uh yes. I want my kids to have my values and beliefs. Not the federal government's.
@@rightinthedome9973 That would be fine, except that sometimes those values and beliefs are just bad. Sometimes bizarre. Sometimes dangerous to themselves and others. There is an important distinction between the right of a parent to educate their children and the /exclusive/ right of a parent to educate their children, excluding other influences.
This is how you end up with, for example, the Amish: They know their bible back to front, and all the skills they need to survive in their enclave community, but struggle with such everyday concepts as a bank account, a legal contract, income tax or how to operate a cellphone. Which is exactly how the community wishes it to be: Only apostates would need to know how to survive the outside world.
@@vylbird8014 do you spend any time with the Amish? I spent considerable amounts of time with them being from being neighbors with them, working with them. They know far more about our world than we know about theirs. They know to use a bank, they how to use cellphones, they ride in cars when they have to, but they won't drive them, they operate engine boats. They don't know the bible nearly as well as the stereotype leads you to believe, they mostly rely on family tradition before all else.
You perceive certain values as bad simply because they don't fit into your worldview. Thinks why Certain religions say morality is objective. If man is left to make its own morality then morality can't exist.
Certain values fit into my worldview very well and those are the ones Ill teach my kids and shield them from things I find detestable for one reason or another.
@@rightinthedome9973 Not their own values and beliefs? Mask off, looks like.
Children are people, not property. When your beliefs are poisonous and you try to instill them in your children then that is society's problem, because those children grow up and become part of society. The rest of us deserve a population without people who choose to be hateful, drooling, entitled apes.
I love how all of the drawings in these books look like it’s from a “My story animated” video. Just shows you how little effort they put into them.
At this point My Story Animated can do better than this.
growing up queer with an exceptionally conservative father looked exactly like this and it’s really nice to see it talked about. i was given a few of these books, especially the rush limbaugh ones, and was constantly ranted to about the dangers of sjws and those that didn’t fit the mold. i always knew i didn’t, and it wasn’t pretty when i came out, but to anyone in a similar place, please know you are loved and not alone. it will get better one day, and realizing that what you’ve been taught might not be right is not easy
If gender is a social construct and you say you "don't fit the mold", is it fair to say that you are anti-social (since you have developed an identity about your social gender that clashes with the associations that society conventionally expects)?
@@KangMinseok I know this wasn’t intended for me, but I just wanted to clarify some stuff. While a lot of people may say gender is a social construct, that’s not exactly true. Gender roles and how gender fits into a broader society and culture is a social construct. However gender itself is neurobiological. Gender is determined by the brain. For example, cisgender men and women have different neurological pathways in their brains. Trans individuals have the neurological pathways of the gender they identify with, and not the ones corresponding to their sex assigned at birth. One study (of many) that demonstrates this is called “Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus”
This also explains the existence of non binary individuals as well as neurological pathways are on a spectrum and don’t neatly fit into a binary.
@@IntoTheForest No. Gender IS all the social aspects, sex IS all the biological aspects - that's how these terms have been defined, that's how we should use them, else communication isn't even possible between us - You even state it yourself, these neurobiological findings are sex, not gender. Trans sex is the correct terminology here, you are using it yourself. If it were just a question of trans sex, the whole matter could be much more scientifically streamlined - anyone claiming to be trans would need to get a proper brain scan and diagnosis, like with any other medical condition - but that's not the problem here now, is it? It's that the World Health Organization etc. are promoting the idea that trans gender is a non-medical disorder social trans which is determined by an individual's self-conviction (as if gender and gender identity are the same thing). It's simply nonsense. What you describe is clearly a medical condition and therefore not based in a social construct - ergo it is not that which the WHO talks about when they use the word "trans gender", and it's also not what the large majority of gender studies papers talks about (there the definition of "gender' is in actuality just a spectrum of socially constructed femininity and masculinity, which has little to do with biology).
@@KangMinseok bro the only anti social person here is you commenting on every comment lol calling others anti social while you try to impose your opinions on others, let me guess you believe in God right and your morality comes from a book written by men claiming to be the word of God?
I can’t imagine an 8 year old understanding what a free market is, let alone enough that they understand why the characters in a story think it’s good and be engaged by that.
Heck, if they understood what it was, they'd be smart enough to see that it's a myth anyway. No free market when someone owns the market.
Ben Shabibo: "Let kids be kids!"
(Children start playing and talking with each other )
Ben Ben: "Also, I want to read you this great book about Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek."
(Children keep playing as they leave the room.)
Ben Shabibo (face reddening as he stomps his feet): "Hey, get back here, you little heathens! I haven't even told you the story about the evil Hollywood elites who rejected my pilot script for a dramedy at Harvard!"
(Outside, the sound of happy children fills the air.)
Shabibo : "These little ingrates don't know anything! They're as stupid as my toddler smiling as I call my wife to change her poopy diaper!"
Kids don’t understand free markets because most children have an innate sense of empathy and cooperative spirit with other children.
@@MatecaCorp ...I think that's an overestimation of children, especially when empathy is literally a developmental milestone, but for the most part I agree they're easier to get to cooperate than adults
Just as 8 year old kids have no perception of what asexual, nonbinary, and all those terms mean. Your arguement is argument invalid
The artwork in the Matt Walsh book is appalling. You could pay 500 bucks to most sophomores in art school and get much better results
We drew a kids book in school. At least 1/3 of those looked waaaaay better.
The problem is finding a right-wing art student in college is probably about as common as an ambidextrous pitcher in baseball.
It’s so bad, and even worse when you consider he charged people $30 for it
The art style looks like cheap wind waker knockoff to me for some reason.
@@Eibarwoman They are not hard to find in high school though. At least where I live that is.
I love how they are all about 'free speech' but also need to 'protect their kids from socialist ideas'
free speech good unless when we dont like it
They are scared of a communist revolution
And Ron Desantis in Florida is literally banning a bunch of books that he doesn’t agree with while still peddling his “free speech” bs
Free speech includes the freedom to complain about other people's ideas being more popular than yours.
Don't forget that Free Speech can make you very, very rich if you play it right. Unlike Free Jazz which has practically no monetary value at all. Or Free Nelson Mandela, which took years before it caught on, and even then people preferred to believe he was already dead - if not in this Universe... Free Willy became a mandate for some Hollywood and cable news folk while Free At Last is what the Devil says every time a crime boss holds a political rally.
What does having the right to free speech not being interfered with by the government, NOT PEOPLE, have to do with protecting your kids from ideas you find harmful? replace socialist ideas with any ideas. It doesn't matter, free speech is from the government, it doesn't apply to private businesses, other people, etc. its the government that can't infringe it. And even at this point, I don't care if my kids hear socialist ideas, I'm just going to make sure they understand it from both sides of views. That isn't freedom of speech, but hey classic leftist not even knowing what they're talking about.
left wing indoctrination, "accept these different people", conservative indoctrination, "heres a specific list of who and what to hate".
None of these books promote hate
@@a__youtube__user oh, I’m sorry, I called your bigotry hate. Please excuse.
@@yeoldegunporn i didn't see any bigotry, unless what you consider bigotry is protecting children
@@a__youtube__user you express zero intention to comprehend anything outside yourself, why should anyone care about your opinion?
@@yeoldegunporn how am i refusing to comprehend anything outside myself? explain to me what i need to understand and i will try to comprehend it.
Also, why does the caveman Drumpf character look like a budget Fred from Scooby Doo rather than even remotely resembling the malformed orange hellspawn that we can clearly see in real life?
Because they don't see what we see. These books are a glimpse into their head
I'll give you one guess. Hint: it's demonetizable.
They think it "owns" liberals
Or Bamm-Bamm from that cartoon where Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are teenagers.
@@TheBonkleFox Fred Flintstone from The Scooby Doostones
These stories suck because they don't want to teach kids to be more considerate and observant of the world around them. It's designed to keep them in a mindset where they are right, and their enemies shouldn't be trusted. Not even any veil of allegory, just using names and visualizations of actual people, almost like a pavlovian exercise to show who to hate and what to hate.
Indoctrinating kids with opinions they don't understand. It's a sinister business, reminds me of the Westborough Baptist children.
@@-xirx- Reminds me of those books about abortion for kids, huh?
@@megahunterkiller or those "fire & brimstone" child preachers you use to get on 90's talk shows: shouting about the wrath of God, while obviously not 100% understanding or convinced of what they were shouting about. Almost always they had a parent who was a preacher and had coached them in what to say.
and do such, even with what looks like is most absurd
I feel like the book is made to teach children that the world is insane
Alright I refuse to see any political view on Tango makes three because its a book on a real gay penguin couple.
Honestly lgbtq+ topics shouldn’t be political at all, like just let them live 😭
One year after Kids Are American Too was published, Spears was placed under a horrific conservatorship, which just makes that quote all the worse.
How Matt Walsh's Walrus book would go in a world where the trans species metaphor actually applied (and if we had that didn't involve ridiculous waiting lists for first appointments): "Do you think you're a Walrus, or do like pretending to be a walrus?" 'Pretending' "OK then. Ma'am, you kid's just a kid who has an active imagination. It's healthy, but he's not a walrus."
Politically correct fairy tales Red Riding Hood kind of goes from eye rolling 'modern job titles are ridiculous' gags to being accidentally interesting with the ending? I know it's trying to mock the idea of alternative family structures, but I legitimately want to know what life is like for this family of wolf, Little Red, and her grandmother.
Lmao I thought the same thing, it made me actually laugh (though not with it) cos all I could think was "you know what, that kinda owns, hope they start a vegetable garden"
Real talk though: seeing as the wolf clearly has cognitive abilities of a human, is this still technically bestiality?
@@Kickiusz No, he not only passes the Harkness test, but in most art depicting the fairy tale he's also bipedal, so the wolf is like the Caitian in Star Trek, the Judoon in Doctor Who, or your average subject of furry art. And Grandma was obviously able to withdraw consent at any point in this version given she left via the wolf's mouth herself...
I just hope the woodchopper's fellow workers start a union cause to deal with this bull of getting killed by random grannies 🤣
Yeah, I thought that fairy tale book seemed more complex in its language and ideas. It was sort of holding two levels of meaning at once. Which none of the other, more recent, books show. I think comparing the more recent books shows how right wing discourse has deteriorated.
- "Sometimes the people in government keep my money for themselves instead of helping the needy"
- "Oh, so you're saying a government should help the needy?"
*crickets sounds in the distance
Ironically, conservative politicians are the most guilty of this. Remember how Trump embezzled money to his family and businesses throughout his presidency? What a great guy.
@Checuke that's what they claim more or less, but everything they've done when in power demonstrates they truly want tax money to only go to the military and the police. Not that the democratic party is far off...
There was a time when to become a President or a Supreme Court Judge meant taking a pay cut.
Most dipshits will try to argue that they don’t want the government helping the needy anyway, right until they themselves need help because of the very economic system they claim to want so much.
I can only imagine their version of Robin Hood
*Goodness.*
I grew up black, assigned as female, knowing, at least in part, about my queerness far before I found labels for myself.
And I’d like to say that it’s almost incomprehensible for these things to get to people, especially considering how I feel now, but, like.
I LEGITIMATELY fell into these kinds of ideologies as a child. I was age 7, living in America, overhearing news broadcasts about police brutality, and i was thoroughly convinced that racism was fake. Among other things.
I try my best to remember how this kind of stuff would look through the eyes of a child, and I feel like my exact experience with that kinda helps.
It’s scary. I think it’s scary that kids are being read books about feminism being “silly” and how to differentiate types of guns and why their trans peers are playing a delusional dress up game. That’s fuckin scary, man!!
@American Nationalist meh. Maybe my phrasing is wrong, maybe it’s right, who gives a fuck really. Life moves on.
Well, yeah. They said they were AFAB, which generally means they’re biologically female. No trans person denies what they were born as. You’re ‘gotcha!’ moment, or whatever that’s supposed to be is pathetic lmao
Also, I’m glad you were able to escape that type of environment. Conservatism really is vile. I’m sorry you fell victim to that but it’s good to know you got out of that okay :]
I think a major difference for me between left wing and right wing childrens books is that left wing books, especially ones with queer people, is that they tend to just say “hey, this exists, and that’s ok.” Just teaching them not to hate I guess, definitely not saying all left wing books are like that, there are definitely books on any side that goes too far.
It’s worth pointing out that many of the “walrus” traits that are so wacky and off the wall to Matt and his pals are actually common symptoms of things such as autism and adhd. So it’s both transphobic and ableist.
Edit: it’s worth noting that walruses don’t really even clap or bark.
Huh? Which traits? I'm not following. Like, hand-clapping or...?
I'm aut!stic and I don't think I have any other walrus traits, but I also haven't read that book so who knows what they wrote into it.
I mean, that was probably... maybe... possibly accidental, but it's on-brand either way.
@@ryn2844 It's not that autistic people are like walruses. The point is that the writing makes it seem like he's either autistic or has ADHD. I'm not a doctor, but I imagine that's how a real doctor would have identified a child who acted the same way.
You might have to go looking for a reaction video to see the specifics ... if you're feeling masochistic today.
@@philipvipond2669 don't give bigots the benefit of the doubt. these people never only hate one group.
@@philipvipond2669 unsure how sarcastic this is, but no way it was accidental. Trans people are significantly more likely to have ADHD and/or autism (commonly attributed to needing to think about how other people perceive them more) and conservatives are dead-set on painting being trans as a mental illness.
What also irks me about many of these conservative kids' books is the contempt they show toward children, their curiosity, and their intelligence. Matt Walsh makes no secret of it when he portrays Johnny as someone who's always playing make believe, as if the boy is doing something dangerous.
Matt Walsh takes the brave stance against parents playing with their children
@@noalowenstein6741 Have you seen him reading his "kids story" at a group of young children? All the charisma of soggy cardboard, no empathy. He'd rather be anywhere else, and the kids know it.
@@antoinetteherrera9026 Ben shapiro telling kids that taxation is theft made me throw up in my mouth
@@noalowenstein6741 The kids are smarter, sharper, and more empathetic than little Ben Ben. Here's hoping they keep these qualities.
Right, because actual children generally grasp the difference between pretending to be a walrus, and actually wanting to live the rest of your life as a walrus.
"Why everyone needs an AR-15" sounds like a parody.
Really every Titel sounds like a parody "Donald build the Wall" really ?
@@buecherhamster1496 "Hey children,do you wanna hear a bedtime story?"
"Ok daddy! Which one? Puss in Boots?"
"No! 'Why is feminism so silly?' I'm sure you'll love it"
"...Maybe mommy was right about you..."
Right wing childrens books are like dementia level energy. Left seems like “hey, this is why your friend has two moms”
I saw one on watching porn and rimjobs, with some nice diagrams for the kids that don't read so well. Clearly the right is bad and the left is good, no other clarification is necessary
Oh god, what book did that? That sounds horrifying.
@@chickenandksivideoreviewer9739are you gonna say which book or am I just supposed to trust you
@@clownface-cw5mi or you can look up the actual books before having an opinion? Crazy I know
@@chickenandksivideoreviewer9739Just say you made it the fuck up and move on, my god
"Just by reading this you are demonstrating you are way ahead of the pack." I took after my dad's conservative politics when I was a teenager and, I have to say, this feeling was communicated to me a lot from other conservative adults. There was a lot less encouraging of questioning and a lot more acting like I was smarter than other kids because I was conservative, which was very appealing as a precocious teenager.
Yeah they have a lot of ego stroking going on
I mean even in conservative adults, there is an inherent elitism underpinning it all. This is the root of conservatism. Telling others how to live and preaching that the wealthy are inherently superior by virtue of their wealth.
@@DeathnoteBB Absolutely. To be fair, I was an autistic teenager with no friends, so any approval was practically euphoric to me, but for adults, it really shouldn't be the basis of their ideology.
@@chazdomingo475 What I will say from growing up being a conservative teenager was that a lot of the beliefs, for me at least, were based on an idea of what life was SUPPOSED to be like. Running into the realities of the world (like people will have sex even if you teach abstinence-only, etc) was what turned me away from it. I often wonder how many other conservatives are stuck because of that mindset.
@@erinprizant5542 I’m not blaming you, that’s the insidiousness of it. They know kids and vulnerable people just want approval, so they exploit that to indoctrinate people into their bigotry. It sucks and is what cults do.
I remember when Grand Theft Auto IV had that one radio talk show from a conspiracy theorist, with a segment about some insane guest lady who made a coloring book about conspiracies for kids. It got so unhinged that even the conspiracy guy was audibly put off by her, and had to cut her off from his show. I remember when you could still call that exaggerated satire.
I fully expect that exact book to hit the shelves by 2025.
A version of that exact scenario came true last week.
@@unfunnymeme2570 W H A T
Already happened 9 years ago, too.
I mean, the Onion is real news, right?
@@TheMamaluigi300I’m still waiting on that Ohio head ripping machine from the onion
This just breaks my heart because I grew up so passionate about books. Library day was my favorite day of the week at school, I loved visiting the public library (where I now work), the scholastic book fair was a highlight of the year, going to a book store was as exciting as going to a toy store. I got to devour Calvin & Hobbes comics, Roald Dahl classics, guides to monsters & fantasy creatures around the world, and nonfiction books about my favorite animals all in one fell swoop. The parents who force these kinds of books onto their kids don’t want that for their kids. They don’t really want them to be curious and explorative. They just want them to obey & not challenge their parents’ worldview.
That whole "Don't trust doctors" thing is the reason we now have cases of Polio in the US again.
Making it great, Just like the good ol' days. 😡
No, that would be because of illegal immigration and mass immigration in general.
@@westonmeyer3110 what are you talking about?
@@mrmoment6061
Polio came back because of mass immigration.
@@westonmeyer3110 that doesn't make sense since it came back where vaccinations rates lowered. Is there a difference between illegal immigration or legal, since your comment makes no distinction. legal would require vaccinations.
Got real quiet in here all of a sudden.
The book about AR-15 and silly feminists has different artstyles on the cover and in? That's a whole new level of lazy. Like the author also did the art, but commissioned an actual artist for the cover alone, so he doesn't have to share credit.
Pretty sure they just used stock images for the covers.
That first Tuttle Twins ad slaps though. Kid was reading Karl Marx in Elementary school and the mom needed a sign in the kitchen to remind him that communism was not allowed in the kitchen. Absolutely hilarious, but not for any reason intended.
If only every kid could be as based as that one
The commercial I saw is truly amazing. I really liked the Marxist kid, who was like a modern, school age version of the peasants from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I'm really surprised that they think that schools are that good at brainwashing, since they don't think that schools can teach much of anything else.
The kid staged a walkout and claimed his union had voted to strike when he was told to wash the dishes.
I like how it's just the kitchen. Also want to point out that at the start, the kid wants to make his own cookies, and at the end, the moral is "demand cookies, don't make your own"
@@jamiebrooks457 If he's old enough to ask for cookies, he's old enough to make his own.
Dude, a book acknowledging the existence of lesbians or gay parents isn't "left wing."
It is left wing.
It is to conservatives.
it is genuinely terrifying that there are children being fed this who grow to see this as the truth
I wasn't fed this and even I can see that a kid pretending to be a walrus probably isn't a walrus.
Well no shit. You clearly aren’t picking up that Matt was trying to make a shitty analogy comparing being trans*gender* to thinking you're another species
@@galacticrainestorm8546 which is not a shitty analogy at all since in nature we do not find a definitive definition for "species" - it's an imperfect concept we humans use to make talking about the variety of life easier. In reality though, what separates a man from a woman and a human from a walrus is the same - genetic differences. The only real difference is in the total number, not in the nature of the differences. That's what makes the analogy valid - if we can make an excuse for the differences between male and female, there is no logical barrier for us not to make an excuse for the differences between humans and other animals. 1 + 2 = 5 is not more or less wrong than 3 + 6 = 20, only because the latter has higher numbers in it, if you understand this less-than-ideal analogy. Obviously I expect any reader to now jump up and shout "but male and female are not the same as man and woman", to which my reply is: "man" and "woman" are not considered genders by the modern definition of "gender" anymore, read the gender definition of the World Health Organization, it may open your eyes (if not, feel free to come back and I'll explain it).
Hopefully a bit will move on from this. I mean I had the Bible rammed down my throat my whole childhood and still went atheist in my teens. Also conservatives freak out over college because they see their kids usually being more liberal when they come back. While some of that is the curriculum most of it is probably just from them getting out of their small towns and being around a lot of people from different backgrounds who can finally be themselves since they aren't stuck with their parents anymore.
Matt Walsh should be nowhere near any children even in book form especially for his views on the Catholic Church and their treatment of victims
Keep in mind that Matty also despises the notion of children having any degree of consent, and boasts about how he controls his own children's lives. I think he doesn't see them as humans with their own thoughts and desires, but as property.
@@antoinetteherrera9026 from experience, yes that is exactly how the far-right see their children.
@@LieseFury And that's a frightening prospect, if the US descends into a full on Christofascist hellscape.
@@antoinetteherrera9026 jeezus 🤢
The first five words were good enough, honestly.
I swear I saw the Tuttle Twins marketed on a conservative website as a YA series. It seems to me that part of the reason why they are so obsessed with banning YA books from high school libraries is because they unironically believe that teenagers are the same as little kids.
there was a ya spinoff recently, a choose your own adventure series, where the twins are teenagers. i was "blessed" with the box set by my grandma last christmas
@@nickythehickey can’t think of a better gift for any kid. Three cheers for a box set of young adult novels!
@@willenator3220 please say you’re trolling
Lessons in leftist books: gay people exist and you should be accepting of kids with gay parents
Lessons in right wing books: guns are toys. Play with them play with them play with them play with them play with them play with them play with them play with them
I listened to you talk about these books and I just imagine the kids reading them either being bored to tears or incredibly confused.
THANK YOU for pointing out how bad the art in Johnny the Walrus is. I have to wonder if he just REALLY skimped on the illustration budget, or if this was the only artist he could find who would agree to illustrate a book about making fun of trans kids.
I think he skimped. I’ve seen some very talented right wing artists but they probably charge what they’re worth
It looks like someone's first upload to deviantart, but with horrible transphobia instead of gay furry porn.
Also,is it just me or did one of the EvIl AcTiViStS in the book look like Amity from The Owl House?
yeah uhh the lack of technical skill is really funny it genuinely looks like he paid a high schooler to do it. wouldn’t be surprised if the illustrator is like, a friends kid who wants to go to animation school. “ah yes a digital artist! i’m writing a book, can you draw the pictures. i’ll give you $20 but the exposure will be worth a lot more! it’ll be great to have on your college applications” and then they agree to do it because they don’t know better LMFAO
It looks like was drawn by a kindergartener using MS Paint
I saw a great goodreads review.
“If you've seen transphobic memes on the internet, you don't even need to read this book because it's basically that but in a format of a kid's book (written in a way kids probably won't even understand) with cheap-looking illustrations which look like they were made by some rando who's
only experience in graphic design is doing bigoted wojak memes.”
The page missing from Johnny the Walrus was:
"Is he hurting anybody?"
"No. So we have to stop him!"
Bullying and shaming people who aren't hurting anyone is a staple of conservatives.
@@eymed2023 while the other side especially woke people preaching and shoving their decision like that decision save the humankind when what they do is just ruining the image of people who are just living peaceful life who are same as them
@@eymed2023 while defending people who are harming people tooth & nail
it's not Johnny who is stopped in the book it's his mother ; )
Would you stop a mother that tries to throw her kid who's pretending to be superman off a skyscraper to see whether the kid can fly?
That's the energy this is going for.
@@KangMinseok do you know all the creepy shit Matt Walsh has said about teenage girls? Why are you jumping to defend the honor of someone who’s probably a pedophile?
my sister was givin a book from my mom about 2 bunnies. they were both boys. the friends of both the bunnies were happy and wanted to celebrate them by holding a wedding for them. it’s a children’s book but i love it
I own an AR-15 and a good amount of other guns. And it is frankly disturbing to think people are trying that hard to normalize guns to kids.
The Walrus book’s art is sub-Sonichu levels. It really shows how no respectable artist would chose to work with Matt Walsh.
Oh fuck that is a heavy hit
actually, if you replace the characters, i think that book could be an early sonichu volume.
The book is for children. Were you expecting Michelangelo sculptures to be painted in it?
Ivancoins6906 out here reppin that “right wing riddled dementia filled brain” take
@@PartnershipsForYou SO you're saying that the book is not for children. You can't even combat my argument, so you come at me with insults? How hostile and pathetic of you.
As someone with a hippy mother (a hippy mother who wouldn't let me watch most Disney movies because the princesses were too passive in their stories and all the moms were dead, no less), we had the Politically Correct Bedtime Stories books when I was a kid, and my mom used to read them to us. We still found them funny, but mostly because it was so over the top while still actually making good points about the failings of the originals - so if they were intended to be conservative propaganda, then they failed in the same way that Stephen Colbert did with the Colbert Report, I suppose.
I didnt think the Colbert Report failed...it was hilarious.
@@waltonsmith7210 It failed in that it was meant to be satire making fun of conservatives, and instead it became a character conservatives enjoyed and thought was making fun of how over the top liberal critiques of them are. I wasn't making any statements on the quality of its humor.
I read them in high school and felt the same way.
@@Ladygrev eh, that's not a failing of Colbert, that's just because conservatives are too dumb to get satire of any sort.
Never read them but the ending of the Red Riding Hood one was kinda based...sans murdering the woodchopper.
"why everyone needs an ar-15" sounds like an shitpost
What a wild country the US is. I just can't imagine a lot of these books being created anywhere else in the world.
then again, I couldn't imagine gender ideology to come out of any other place either... I guess it's like Chato said in his latest video on Hogwarts Legacy... the US is the place where both the world's best and worst ideas come from... (in terms of adoption rate in other countries - sure, other countries may have a lot of good or bad takes, but they aren't globally adopted like the US ones).
@@KangMinseok The modern "west".
@@cerebrummaximus3762 ok.. I'm not sure what to do with that comment lol
@@KangMinseok Oke lol
@@cerebrummaximus3762 roflcopter
the art is consistently 'beginner webcomic' quality... really adds to the low-quality product vibe. cyanide and happiness looks better lmao
Look at the low-effort garbage being put out by the mainstream comics companies (and all children’s books really) and there really is no difference - except the left has control of the mainstream and massive budgets… so what’s their excuse? At least there is still manga, which will always be a highly competitive meritocracy, and thus products of the biggest quality. Bonus points to Japan for rejecting woke nonsense wholesale.
Alan Becker's stick figure animations look better than this crappy kids book
It's on the same level as the multiple art styles from the eternal last chapter of The Wotch, feckin' shite.
The art in these kids book scream Boomer Comics and the political symbols in them could not be any more on the nose.
@@anothercub6958 imagine how “on the nose” leftist books are - no attempt at subtlety whatsoever, just straight doctrine. Really that describes any leftist “entertainment” in all forms.
10:15 Correct you are, sir! No child should be using an AR-15. With their small stature and weak arms, children are much better suited to manning crew-served weapons such as mortars and machine guns! This has the added benefit of teaching teamwork to the youth, a noble endeavor if ever there was!
/s if it wasn't completely obvious. Seriously, folks, secure your firearms if you have them so that a child cannot in any scenario access it. Home invaders come around maybe once a decade; overly curious children are around all the time.
It's a basic conflict in need: If you have a gun because you are worried about home invaders ("But they are on the TV all the time!") then you can't keep it securely stored away. It needs to be ready and loaded, somewhere you can instantly grab it from your bed when you hear the window break.
Some people are just waiting for life to make them the star in an action movie.
@@vylbird8014 I mean, many home invasions the person isn't coming to murder you and you aren't trying to hunt them down. The idea is grab gun, wait in room with so, yell "get the fuck out of my house, I've called the police, you come through that door and I will fucking shoot you". You shouldn't be trying to get in a fight with an intruder, only excuse is if you have kids to grab. Still, I can get my gandgun out of a case and loaded in seconds. Many cases of home defence I have heard or read about people had the time to get their gun out of the case, many times baricading themselves in a room afterwards before having the door kicked in. That said most home invasions aren't violent and most of the time the violent ones don't involve them bum rushing your room. Point is, in the rare ocaision where you need a gun, you most likely will be able to get to it.
Volkssturm moment
Personally I prefer handing my Jimmie a fragmentary grenade, his small stature can assure he'll sneak on a target with it and get it close enough for effective range, should things go badly for Jimmie not everything is lost- he can work as a great distraction, and even better than that is how BAD ASS grenade sepuko is!! İ meanwhile been teaching Matilda how to flay communist, however doing it in a manner that preserves their life force drawing out the pain to a much longer time. She makes me proud.
Leftists are just as bad as Nazis
The re-imagined Little Red Riding Hood story is unironically so cool. Polyamorous household built on the disdain for men is cool, no matter how uncool a conservative wants to make it look like.
Agreed. I too couldn't imagine myself being such a petty sadistic asshole who's only motivation is to make life worse for everyone around them. Seriously, what is wrong with conservatives?
Don’t sound cool to me
another thing about these "kids" books is how they don't age well at all, if a child grows up after reading one these books they'll just end up even more confused.
Not over-interpreting your child's fantasy will only ever get old when children stop fantasizing.
And this is why conservatives have the media literacy of children. Because you can replace these children books with a TH-cam video by antisjwtruthspeaker1984 and get the same artistic value.
They fucking LOVE 1984 (even though it's about them or just authoritarianism in general)
@@donovanlocust1106 if you actually read 1984, you’ll notice some common themes with the themes and erasing of history taking place both in the book and in our modern world - similar to events occurring when the book was written.
@@TokyoXtreme yeah. I know.
@Something Diabolical Oh because trans people exist? You're the ones who want to make America something that it should never be. I'm sorry the existence of trans people is so scary to you.
@@TokyoXtreme Did you even read the comments?
Plot twist: These are books for adult conservatives at their appropriate reading level.
That isn't a plot twist; that is a covered-up truth.
@@TheBlueMarbleItselfi agree with you but why is your spelling so bad?
@@bingchiller21 Sorry, I was typing it fast.
As the video points out, these books aren't for the kids, they're for the parents.
As a Scot I feel targeted
The funny thing is that kids play pretend and enjoy acting like different animals for fun…. so Johnny the Walrus just strikes me as condescending and oblivious to kids' imaginative instincts. May Matt Walsh's bad transphobic book backfire
WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL OPINION! DO NOT REPLY! I find it a bit hard to trust something that by design it’s main goal is to make money. Also, why are we still discriminating against fellow human beings?
I feel the same way
True
Roald Dahl’s ‘Revolting Rhymes’ is an excellent (and very funny) deconstruction of classic fairy tales, brilliant for kids and adults.
Shame he was a vicious antisemitic.
@@ameliawright6947 Was he? I suppose that fits his era. I don't think that's present in his books. Funnily enough my uncle sang opera at his birthday once. I'm not sure how he was invited.
@@Crispman_777 He justified the holocaust.
Weren't classic fairytales extremely violent and sexual ?
@@ameliawright6947
I mean sure, but has that ever actually ruined one of his books?
Because let’s be honest, the imperialist undertones of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are *far* more interesting to discuss…
"It's a vision of libertarianism that's simple enough for children to understand."
So it's just regular American libertarianism.
Librarianism
so matt walsh literally just rewrote tusk and made it transphobic and kid friendly 💀
I dispute that “gay parents” kids books are left wing. The “A is for Activist”, sure, we can call that left wing (haven’t read it - activism obviously isn’t inherently left wing but ngl, it looks pretty leftist). But the right wing kids books are clearly ideological whereas the ones that are just like “these people exist and that’s okay” I don’t agree with the premise that they’re left wing and I think the notion that they are is just an excuse for propagandists to write books that say “these people exist, but they shouldn’t, and it’s not okay” which to me is a much more ideological point to start from.
yup you got it. For the same reason why conservatives have to invent the idea that these books are sexually explicit in order to generate outrage and have them banned. They are not (or at least should not be) partisan ideas. It’s just like any book where the moral is “be kind” or “don’t bully people for being different.”
I read some of the Politically Correct Bedtime Stories when I was little, but I didn't understand satire, so it accidentally made me love the idea of leftist ideals. Whoops.
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I just wanted to make it clear that Matt Walsh isn’t a goofy transphobe - he is a fascist. He says so clearly and proudly - meaning that he is actively dangerous
A Theocratic Fascist, at that.
Can you show me the video where Matt Walsh claims to be a fascist?
@@courtneypatterson9896 his twitter bio.
To be fair being transphobic is fascist. The only difference is being openly and knowingly connected to fascists.
@@courtneypatterson9896 That is literally him being sarcastic when he says that he is a “theocratic fascist that will take over the world”. Instead of getting offended and denying whenever people insult him with, he pretends to identify with the very same insults to show that he doesn’t care about what other people say.
i love how (based on my observations atleast) the 2 differences between these books are
"people with different families exist and its okay" and
"YOU GOTTA LEARN HOW TO MAKE A G U N YOU GOTTA LEARN IT INSIDE AND OUT WE ARE ALWAYS RIGHT", wish i was strawmanning that last one but no i actually saw a right wing book called "the right side of history" like bruh
I actually read the red riding hood story from 19:21 in a middle school english class, we were supposed to write a paragraph review about it, I said it was a terrible parody written by someone who actually hated feminism, but some of my classmates fell for it and took the story at face value
Didn't expect to see you here lol.
In Johnny the Walrus the moral of the story is that parents shouldn't listen to what the people on the Internet say and trans people never choose to be trans it's just the interent people. But that's a moral story for the parent so the kid learns nothing and not just that the parent learns nothing, as the only reason you would buy this book is that you agree with the moral of the story. However, it was written by Matt Walsh so the book being nonsencial and st upid is to be expected.
I’m honestly very surprised that people buy into Matty’s bullshit
Also saying you shouldn’t listen to what people say on the internet and trans people don’t choose their gender is exactly in line with what trans advocates say
@@jordan11752 no I'm saying choose to transition, to become a trans man, trans women or non-binary, not talking about how someone feels about their gender inside.
@@Alex-cw3rz I know I just mean that conservative arguments are so poorly thought out that you can say the exact same thing against them. Ultimately they don’t believe anything they say, they’re just excuses that they use to justify hate.
Moral of the story, don't listen to what others say about your kid on Twitter, instead you should listen to random zoo employees.
I live in the Netherlands; here these writers would have a very hard time finding a publisher willing to burn their hands on this crap. Meanwhile in the US books that feed natural curiosity are being banned by pearl clutching conservatives. Keep up the good work José, love your channel.
Yeah I heard that your country is one of the most progressive countries in terms of LGBT+ rights & I'd assume you have some cartoons with LGBT+ characters in them that haven't been seen outside of your country. I can definitely see them just going, "who wants to buy this crap?", knowing that they have standards.
@@ExtremeWreck 😂
@@ExtremeWreck the Netherlands has good infrastructure, but I don’t think the red light district should exist tbh.
@@louisinese aint nothing wrong with red-light district, the us should join first world tbh.
@@deezboyeed6764 why do you think they should.
I hate the fact that Donald looks like a redraw of Fred from Scooby Doo
Yeah
"Walrus crap-shoveler Matt Walsh" killed me, that is the perfect description for him.
Man, if I was talented at all, the market for right-wing kid's book satires is so delicious. Kids asking their parents how to best shoot-up a public school, etc.
"The Tuttle Twins Learn that Dead Classmates are the Price of Freedom"
Someone should flood Amazon with fake Tuttle twins books that sound real but are actually satire. Basically just scramble their frequencies so the kids come out with mixed messages
you don't even need to be talented to satirize such low tier books lol
But also, don't sell yourself short. Talent is a myth, practice is all you need.
My suggestion for an over-the-top right-wing book: The story of a town fighting big government. And it goes like this:
There was a town of Statesville, a town of industry and wealth. The people of Statesville worked hard in their farms and their factories, and the town grew and grew.
One day a little man, a petty spiteful man came to visit. "I'm from the Government," he said, "And we have found a rare species on your land. The lesser dotted sparkle-warbler."
The people of Statesville were proud to have this rare bird, and they welcomed the bird-spotters - but then man from the government returned.
"You cannot build more factories," he said. "For that land is home to the sparkle-warbler."
"You cannot farm that land," he said, "For the trees there are food for the warbler."
"In fact," he said, "I am going to need to close some of your factories down, because their waste is poisoning the warblers."
The people of Statesville saw the ruin this would bring, and so they formed a great plan. While the man was away, they assembled, and they searched the land around with guns and nets.
They shot and they splatted, they poisoned and they crushed, they set fire to the forests, and in a week every single lesser-spotted sparkle-warbler lay shot and and burned and dead.
And the man from the government left, and was never seen again.
@@Emiliapocalypse Reminds me of those Famous Five and Mr. Men parodies for adults.
I’m sad he went after the “on all levels except physical, I am a wolf” girl :( she’s a really great person and she gets too much hate online
Wait, is that the same girl from the meme? It didn't even connect for me.
Also, I'm not sure if the wolf part was supposed to be taken as a bad thing??? like it landed really weird for me, she outright stated that she basically watches their body language and doesn't just speak to them like a disney princess or something, which kinda doesn't fit with what he seemed to be going for with the question???? like have you ever heard of editing, of course you have, that bit landed all wrong don't include it???? also??????? where I live thats the type of super conservative in-tune with nature bullshit that conservatives eat up???? the most conservative people I've met have owned wolves??????????? basically matt walsh isn't even good at being transphobic i guess
Sadly, “progressives” are against those kinds of people too.
So she’s not just transgender but otherkin. That’s like something completely different that he’s conflating with the trans movement - or is it common for trans people to identify with animals in that way? I would have thought it was a more autistic thing but a lot of autistic people are trans too. I’m autistic and I might have been trans myself if I weren’t so scared of hormones and surgery.
@@nuclearcatbaby1131 she is transgender. Otherkin has nothing to do with gender
@@yourmother7348 I didn’t say she wasn’t but she’s otherkin on top of that. Is it correlated? How many otherkins are cisgender?
A relative had that book of politically correct bedtime stories when I was a kid, and I LOVED reading it when we'd visit. I don't know what the author's intent was, but I was a child of feminist parents, and I just saw them as retellings where the women got to play active roles and be bad-ass...
I believe I’d fall under the label of “conservative” but I couldn’t justify political media for kids of any side. Politics are like poison and I really just hate the toxicity of people these days when it comes to politics.
okay, I just read the "Polically Correct Bedtime Stories" wiki article and honestly, just reading the synopsis, while the messages and terms like talking about spas are shoehorned in, like the message isn't that bad? Like I know the author was probably trying to shoehorn that stuff to make a point, but the conclusions are honestly based? Like Women coming together in the stories or the three little pigs becoming revolutionaries after being exploited by the wolf who is a capitalist. Honestly, a better author could make some really cool stories with these concepts, it's honestly not a dig at political correctness the author thought it was
Here here
I had the same thought. It's just... he seems to believe that the reader will understand the endings to be implicitly bad. It's too many layers into the irony to really know what he's intending for sure.
Irony exactly, the audience is meant to understand that it's inherently wrong to live in harmony with the wolf, and the author martyrs himself as the woodsman.
I had that book as a child, and instead of brainwashing me into thinking the situations were ridiculous the way I guess the author wanted me to (I wasn't a huge critical thinker as a kid), I thought the endings sounded mostly pretty cool and fun. I remember reading that Red Riding Hood one and going "yes! finally someone who gets how badly I want to kick people's teeth in for being rude about girls!" And now I'm an activist writing for a civil rights journal and advocating for equality and human rights. So like... effort failed successfully???
Like+Honestly.
When the Matt Walsh section came up, specifically with the mention of his "documentary," I found myself wondering what qualifications he could possibly have to speak on issues of gender identity. Then I remembered how conservatism works: his qualifications are his opinions. He is broadcast not because he has some special insight, but because as far as other conservatives are concerned, *he's already right.*
Appeal to authority. Don't think for yourself. Believe whatever you're told 2+2=5 the experts said so.
exactly he's just an idiot with a control issue who demands the world bend to his whim with a bunch of pathetic fans that are the same way.
@@rightinthedome9973 A conservative calling asking for basic qualifications "appeal to authority", as if your entire ideology wasn't constant authority worship. What a joke.
This from the person who worships absolute parental authority.
@@rightinthedome9973 no, experts on mathematics claim that 2 + 2 = 4, have you ever read a math book?
@@destroyer1667 are you really that incapable of recognizing sarcasm?
I try to refrain from calling groups of people evil, but these conservatives act as if they are in a parody movie. How can someone have so little self awareness?
What like Jose?