Cartooning our way into the future. . .

As an advocate for the old cartoons of pure play and classical or operatic music as a soundtrack, I have little interest or encouragement for the animated pleasures of today's children's offerings.  But more than taste, this is about the propaganda that is hidden in what are meant to be amusements with a bit of a social conscience.  That is dangerous -- if only because those choosing the lessons to be learned are appointed by none of us and have taken it upon themselves to awaken our children to things we as parents may not wish them to be burdened with at a young age.

Maybe some of you have introduced your own kids to the animated children’s series Peppa Pig.  It is hard not to like the cute, chatty pink pig.  There are all sorts of Peppa Pig stories in the books by the same name as the animated series.  It might seem that everything is all about the stuff that our toddlers and preschoolers deal with all day long -- new babies, mommies, daddies, and life at home.  Then an episode that already aired in Britain introduced Penny the Polar Bear and her two “mummies” — all within the requisite theme of family -- you know, just like every other family.  It should not surprise us after Pixar wrote in a homosexual relationship to the beloved Toy Story franchise but Peppa Pig is aimed at an even younger audience.  On the one hand, you have to commend the franchise for introducing a character with disabilities, Mandy Mouse, three years ago. Such stories teach true charity and stick to the intent of cartoons: sweet stories to captivate young hearts.  But the woke stories have a larger concern -- to make the children comfortable with the LGBTQ+ agenda before they have a chance to think for themselves and maybe even before their parents realize what their kids are watching.  What is next?  Peppa Pig has a visit from a drag queen?  Coming to a library near you soon.... I am afraid.

I guess that the innocence of our children is only the concern of the parents and so this is a call to wake up, Christian America, and take notice of what your children are watching.  What we think is a child's imagination has become the garden of the woke tenders who make sure that our children learn what they want them to learn.  By the time most of us wake up, it just might be too late.  No one expects such cartoons to be Veggie Tales or Sunday school lessons but if those series would not think to use their platform for religious conversion, neither should then be allowed to use their bully pulpits for the socialization of our kids into the woke generation of the future.