Chalk Revelations

this is so cool and so nice actually. as someone trying to connect better with his culture i get it so bad.

PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.

This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.

That's why conservatives defunded it.

Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?

Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.

Oh that's easy. It's my usual rant about how every few fucking years, we have another terrible Medieval TM movie/TV series made by Some Guy who declares, with utterly baffling certainty, that everything in the medieval world was grey/filthy/rapey/misogynist/racist/violent/terrible/diseased/idiotic/illiterate all the time, and therefore they are just being Historically Akkurittt!!! by making said movie as the most tedious and monotonous pile of ill-informed tripe imaginable. Everything in Medieval World bad!!! Everything in Modern World good!!! Historikkal Progggressss!!!! LOL DONTCHA KNOW IT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF IDIOT FILTHY CAVEMEN! THEN THE RENAISSANCE HAPPENED AND YAY EVERYTHING WAS GREAT AGAIN!

Like. Obviously the medieval world was complex!! Both good and bad things happened because!!! Obviously humans are ALSO complex!!! But they are still people in any place and time!!! Obviously 1000 years of history across the entire world was not a monotonous monochrome rape-fest, as we have in our countless tales told by idiots!!! Obviously we cannot just generalize because it isn't as Seksssy as Ancient Romans Having Orgies or The Renaissance, and trust me, WE ALSO HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT THE RENAISSANCE (DEROGATORY!!!) Why do we have every moron in Hollywood making confident proclamations as if they've actually studied this and are So Sure they're correct when they are dramatically not? Why are we so scared of letting the medieval world be more than a cliche? Why are we so fixated on medieval Europe (answer: racism) and think of it as the only possible medieval world? HAVE YOU MORONS HEARD OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA/ASIA? MEDIEVAL/PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA? AND EVEN THE VAST COMPLEXITY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE ITSELF?? NO I DIDN'T FUCKING THINK SO, YOU MISERABLE COCKWAFFLES!!!!

HOW HAVE WE ALL JUST ABSORBED THIS BY OSMOSIS??? WHY DO I HAVE TO READ ONE MORE GODFORSAKEN INTERVIEW WITH SOME IDIOT ACTOR EARNESTLY ASSERTING THAT THEY ARE "DISPLAYING THE REAL MEDIEVAL WORLD?" WHY DO WE HAVE MOUTHBREATHING NAZIS ON TWITTER WAILING LIKE A LITTLE BITCH WHENEVER A BLACK PERSON APPEARS IN A PERIOD SETTING (ANSWER: ALSO RACISM). WHY ARE YOU ALL SO STUPID??? SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!

/deep breaths

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