no not because of his "racist" name .. Schwarzenegger .. which in Austrian means "black person farms on a ridge" or some such ..
Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation:
[ˈʃvaɐ̯tsn̩ˌʔɛɡɐ]) is a
German surname that means person from
Schwarzenegg, which is both a village in Switzerland (currently split between the municipalities of
Unterlangenegg and
Oberlangenegg) and a place in
Land Salzburg in Austria. "
Schwarzen" means "black", and "
egg" (from the same root as the German word "
Ecke" for "corner") refers to a ridge, e.g.,
Eggli (long ridge),
Eggiman (lives on a ridge), and
Eggler (farms on a ridge).
[1][2] Notable people with the surname include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenegger_(surname)
No! i mean his
clearly racist movie ....
'Kindergarten Cop'
Yes ..... Kindergarten Cop!!! is this shit out of control or not?? you can't make this shit up boys and girls ..
'Kindergarten Cop' canceled: Schwarzenegger film criticized for 'romanticizing over-policing,' compared to 'Birth of a Nation'
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...185841198.html
Kevin PolowySenior Correspondent,
Yahoo Entertainment
August 5, 2020, 1:58 PM
It’s not a toomah — but
it is apparently canceled, at least from one Portland drive-in screening series.
Kindergarten Cop, the quotable 1990 hit comedy starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger as a detective who poses as a teacher to apprehend a dangerous drug dealer, has been removed from its opening night slot at Portland's Northwest Film Center's Cinema Unbound Drive-in Theater after criticisms that it plays a “school-to-prison pipeline” for laughs and “romanticizes over-policing in the U.S.”
The charge was led by local author Lois Leveen, who took to Twitter Saturday to call out the film ahead of its planned screening, which was scheduled to kick off the film series on Thursday.
“What’s so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline?” Leveen wrote in a tweet shared via screen caps by
The Daily Mail (Leveen’s account has since been made private). “Kindergarten Cop-Out: Tell @nwfilmcenter there’s nothing fun in traumatizing kids. National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive
Kindergarten Cop. IRL, we are trying to end school-to-prison pipeline.”
In a separate tweet, Leveen compared
Kindergarten Cop to the much older controversial films
The Birth of a Nation (1915) and
Gone With the Wind (1939).
“We recognize these films like those are not ‘good family fun.’ They are relics on how pop culture feeds racist assumptions.
Kindergarten Cop romanticizes over-policing in the U.S.”
vai Daily Mail
via Daily MailThe film’s cancellation has — predictably — come under fire, with Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz
lamenting that “angry leftists hate Hollywood. Anyone who disagrees will be censored. Hollywood, afraid of the mob, will keep funding those trying to erase any speech/movies that don’t conform.”
Nutty. Angry leftists hate Hollywood. Anyone who disagrees will be censored.
Hollywood, afraid of the mob, will keep funding those trying to erase any speech/movies that don’t conform. https://t.co/aZUKKaBywZ
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 5, 2020
Folks of all political stripes, however, questioned Leveen’s head-scratching comparison of the PG-13 comedy to D.W. Griffith’s infamous film
The Birth of a Nation, an explicitly racist film that painted the Ku Klux Klan as valiant heroes. Beyond its multicultural cast of kindergarteners, there are scant — if any — racial implications in
Cop.
“
Kindergarten Cop and
Birth of a Nation are both problematic movies in the same sense that my kids are Vincent Van Gogh are ‘both painters,’
responded Alex F. Baldwin on Twitter.
Kindergarten Cop and Birth of a Nation are "both problematic movies" in the same sense that my kids and Vincent van Gogh are "both painters". https://t.co/pcvkBAeM2x
— Alex F. Baldwin (@VerumVulnero1) August 4, 2020
Who had Kindergarten Cop being linked to Birth Of A Nation on the 2020 bingo card? pic.twitter.com/nYPTCg2AgU
— Rigormorton (@WeirdNPissdOff) August 5, 2020
There’s also the argument to be made for
Kindergarten Cop’s pro-teacher and pro-education messages. One of the film’s central themes is that teaching is just as — if not more difficult — than police work. And by the end of the film (spoiler alert), the initially bad-tempered LAPD Det. John Kimble (Schwarzenegger) actually decides to quit his job at the police department to become a teacher.
Kindergarten Cop has local ties, having been filmed in Astoria, Ore. — the same famed locale where a handful of other movie favorites were shot, including
The Goonies,
Free Willy and
Short Circuit.
Of course, the movie’s cancellation comes at a time when Portland has become the epicenter of anti-police brutality protests initially sparked by the murder of George Floyd, which only escalated into more violence in recent weeks as federal troops were deployed there. (The
protests have calmed in the days since federal officers withdrew.)
The festival’s decision to nix
Kindergarten Cop also comes on the heels of other recent cancellations of law enforcement-related programming, most notably
the reality shows Cops and Live PD, which were criticized for glorifying police force. Contrary to
social media rumors and
a statement by White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the Nickelodeon animated dog-cop series
Paw Patrol has
not been canceled.
In place of
Kindergarten Cop, the event’s organizers will instead screen
John Lewis: Good Trouble, Dawn Porter’s insightful documentary about the late civil rights icon (read our interview with Porter about the film
here).
Other films slated for the drive-in screening series include
Fast Times at Ridgemont High,
Creature From The Black Lagoon,
Xanadu,
Pee-wee's Big Adventure and
The Shining.
next thing you know they will claim "Mary Poppins" is racist ... oh wait .. they already did!
Is 'Mary Poppins' racist and using blackface? Twitter is not having it
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...ng/2773748002/
it's time to cancel cancel culture!!!
BREAKING NEWS!! Arnold Schwarzenegger ... CANCELED!!
