It was only a matter of time before the protests came for “Paw Patrol.”

“Paw Patrol” is a children’s cartoon about a squad of canine helpers. It is basically a pretense for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks. The team includes Marshall, a firefighting Dalmatian; Rubble, a bulldog construction worker; and Chase, a German shepherd who is also a cop. In the world of “Paw Patrol,” Chase is drawn to be a very good boy who barks stuff like “Chase is on the case!” and “All in a police pup’s day!” as he rescues kittens in his tricked-out S.U.V.

But last week, when the show’s official Twitter account put out a bland call for “Black voices to be heard,” commenters came after Chase. “Euthanize the police dog,” they said. “Defund the paw patrol.” “All dogs go to heaven, except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.”

It’s a joke, but it’s also not. As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hearted cartoon police dogs — or maybe especially big-hearted cartoon police dogs — are on notice. The effort to publicize police brutality also means banishing the good-cop archetype, which reigns on both television and in viral videos of the protests themselves. “Paw Patrol” seems harmless enough, and that’s the point: The movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4558762&forum_id=2#40403069)

I have seen so many threads where I say "there won't be a link" prob no link. And the arc has been towards there being a link. A kind of crude derivative of our culture's arc towards insanity. And somehow this one, yeah. This one.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4558762&forum_id=2#40403365)

I can picture Chase looking Rider, asking why this is happening, and a tear coming down Chase's face.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4558762&forum_id=2#40403575)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4558762&forum_id=2#41641247)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Hess

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4558762&forum_id=2#42320317)

Lol at low-IQ NYT writers not knowing the difference between “pretense” and “pretext”

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4558762&forum_id=2#42987428)