“Think about it. Or don’t. Maybe when you get out of here in a couple of years and go off to IBM or the Marines or something, you won’t be able to think about it; they’ll be doing the thinking for you.” — Abbie Hoffman
Netflix has steadily churned out anti-Trump content, like Trump: An American Dream, which one reviewer describes as &#8220;<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2018/04/12/trump-an-american-dream-plays-like-a-supervillain-origin-story/#6a9b9c673285">playing like a </a> supervillain origin story&#8221;), Meet the Trumps: From Immigrant to President, The Great Hack, and The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, an examination of Trump’s failures to be produced by the Obamas. Netflix subscribers are primed to expect a copious assortment of entertainment options rife with anti-Trump messaging. However, Aaron Sorkin — a director and writer known for his progressive views and famed for his attempt to ostensibly portray both sides of ideological and political arguments on The West Wing — has unexpectedly presented what might be the most pro-Trump film I’ve yet to see on the streamer. Despite Sorkin&#8217;s attempt to wink at Trump haters, the underlying implications of the film quell the anti-Trump narrative, rendering those moments merely a reminder that we are viewing the 1960s through a 2020 lens.
In The Trial of the Chicago 7, Sorkin takes poetic license to rewrite relevant historical elements to convey a Sorkin version of history. His de-Jewification of a story that is arguably comprised of more people of Jewish heritage than of any other race is contemptible. There are several examples of Sorkin hiding Jewish references in the film, such as the yellow Jewish star-Holocaust-badges affixed to Rubin’s and Abbie’s courtroom clothing in 1969. It’s tantamount to recounting the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, but excluding the underlying anti-Semitism. It’s worth noting that they shared a history of Sonderkommando-judges and Sorkin dismissed it in this film.  It’s reprehensible in the current milieu of incessant proselytizing on systemic racism and unconscious bias to ignore the anti-Semitic agenda of the actual trial of the Chicago 7.
As referenced in a Feb. 6, 1970 New York Times report, Abbie used a memorable Yiddish phrase after attacking the judge for lining his pockets with “war-stocks”: “Abbie Hoffman picked up the attack, spicing it with Yiddish, ‘Shande fur de Goyim [Disgrace for the Gentiles],’ he yelled.”  Sorkin’s dereliction to illustrate the conflict between the Jewish Judge as a frontman for the government and the Jewish defendant indicates that the filmmakers deemed it permissible to trample on the underlying Jewish persecution present in the actual history — proving, yet again, in Hollywood, it’s okay to make a movie about racial injustice toward Jews, but only in a Holocaust film.
As appalling as the anti-Semitic nature of the film’s disregard for Jewish American history is, of equal notability is the timing of the film’s release just prior to what some consider to be the most consequential election in U.S. history.  It seems to be an attempt to prejudice the viewer to vote Democrat. But if that is the intent, the filmmakers failed.
Just a few weeks prior to a momentous election, Netflix released a film highlighting the authoritarian rule of government, pertaining especially to the draft. The Chicago 7 were protesting the draft of the Vietnam war at the DNC for LBJ.  Note: it was Democratic President Carter who reinstated the Selective Service Registration Requirement in 1980 through Presidential Proclamation 4771, which is still the law today. Utilizing a fabricated portrayal of history, Sorkin forces the narrative against the Republicans by making it appear as though Nixon provoked the investigation of the Seven. However, those charges belong to LBJ, (as noted by <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/whole-lotta-sorkin-goin-on/">National Review</a>). It was Richard Nixon who campaigned in the 1968 election on a promise to end the draft, which he did as a Republican president.  Maybe that is why the protests in the film were at the Democrats&#8217; convention and not Nixon’s Republican convention. Did Sorkin not include his characters&#8217; famous objectives versus obstacles arguments because that banter would favor the Republicans?
As elucidated by the protagonists, the film’s leitmotiv is an opposition to obliging American men to go to war overseas. Two of these now-famous white men were amongst the many in the 60s and 70s who sidestepped such obligations due to medical reasons: Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Biden was exempt due to asthma and Trump because of bad feet. Biden has been a U.S. senator since 1973 and was vice president for eight years.  One might wonder how many young men and women died in combat in foreign lands while Biden was in office? The current presidential candidate has held power during wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Vietnam, and more, which tragically sent our fellow citizens back in body bags.
Concurrent with the anti-war sentiment of the Chicago 7, President Trump is the first president who hasn&#8217;t initiated a war since Jimmy Carter. He has led with an initiative of bringing troops home and vowing to end foreign interventions. He promises to build a military so mighty we never have to use it, with the understanding that if you want peace, it behooves us to be so formidable that no country will dare to mess with the USA.
Implied in &#8220;The Trial of The Chicago 7&#8221; line “every four years” is that we can vote to effectuate change. However, the previous epochs presented a choice between two establishment-inner-circle political hacks in the pockets of the same corporations, Lyndon B. Johnson and the anti-draft Richard Nixon. In 2020, we are offered the choice of an old establishment guy who is so deeply entrenched in the D.C. ways, the pockets of corporations, and foreign adversarial interests, running against a reality TV star who was outraged at Washington D.C.
Trump detested how the VA hospitals treated veterans during the time in which Biden held office and disdainful of wars that Biden and Obama wouldn&#8217;t end. A billionaire, starring in his own successful reality show, possessing seventeen golf courses worldwide, Trump gave up this luxurious lifestyle to be unremittingly ravaged and harassed by the press, become poorer, and be a target for assassination. Biden, a career politician, has intimated his addiction to power and money. Forbes estimates that Biden has a net worth of $9 million, while American Thinker says it&#8217;s some $250 million.
One might argue that Trump is not in his right mind because it necessitates an impassioned individual to abandon so many comforts in his billionaire lifestyle to go live in government housing and donate his entire paycheck. Analogously, Abbie Hoffman in Sorkin’s film suffers an impetuous, quixotic temperament, and if he was a successful Reality TV Star today, he might have been our president. They both share the inability to filter their thoughts before directly submitting them to the people. It makes one curious how surreal Abbie’s Twitter might have looked. Abbie’s comedic showcases against the DC failures could be paralleled to Trump’s off-Teleprompter conversations with his massive rallies. Abbie and Trump are idealists fighting the system.
Trump is not a traditional, establishment Republican, except perhaps in his stance on the Second Amendment and Abortion. Nevertheless, the Left despises him. Republicans, conventionally, aren’t interested in Prison Reform, loose spending or pulling out of international arrangements, as Trump has done. Establishment Republicans, like Bush 1 and 2, launched military interventions in foreign lands. Notwithstanding the risk of controversy, upsetting our allies and the Republicans, Trump has shown his antipathy for war repeatedly, calling our soldiers home. The film conveys the same anti-war, anti-D.C. sentiment Trump ran on.
Contrary to Sorkin and the leftists behind the film who might want you to view Trump as the Judge, it appears Trump has more in common with the anti-establishment Abbie Hoffman. It’s difficult to ignore the film’s overture of standing up to power, “the establishment,” AKA the brainwashers. Abbie Hoffman does “stand-up” to a group of people, convincing them that the government controls our thoughts, the government is screwing us, and we as people can change it.
Trump ran because he didn&#8217;t like what the government was doing to our country.  He was especially incensed by our vets’ poor healthcare, spending blood and treasure on endless wars, and our inadequate immigration policies. A lifelong Democrat, he had to first learn the tenets of the Republican party and what was now expected of him. Trump is not in line with the establishment paragon of either party, but at his core he is pro-American. He opposes expendable wars, and refrains from putting America’s soldiers in unnecessary combat. He wants our government to prioritize our nation&#8217;s interests. Trump loves standing in the spotlight, ranting about how the government is broken, full of corrupt swamp creatures, and politicians on the take, who should be &#8220;locked up.&#8221;
How could the leftist protagonists in The Trial of the Chicago 7 avoid not aligning with Trump’s anti-war stance? Would Sorkin argue that they would back Biden and his feckless stance on proliferating war after war and accepting money from the biggest mind-controlling corporations on earth?
Biden criticized the president for reaching out to Kim Jung-Un to avoid a conflict. Biden would likely launch an attack on North Korea, since Obama told Trump it was destined. One could easily see Biden giving billions to Iran again. Uniting the Middle East is part of Trump&#8217;s plan to stop Iran and disburden the USA from leading the effort to prevent Hassan Rouhani from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Abbie calls the sham against them, where they are fighting the political establishment, a “political trial.”  Trump is also fighting the political establishment, who has no better representation than Joe Biden. Biden claims that Trump &#8220;doesn&#8217;t share the values of most Americans.&#8221; American taxpayers have paid this guy for almost 50 years. He’s been a swamper by making people dependent on government and playing politics.  Biden and Obama’s establishment appears to have spied on Donald Trump before he was elected; history says Abbie Hoffman was a victim of government surveillance as well.  The media is against Trump. Hollywood, including Netflix, is against Trump. Netflix produced an entire series called Space Force to mock Trump’s creation of the first new branch of the military since 1947.
Trump’s and his family’s life have become hell. Unlike his corrupt, establishment counterparts who have profited in government, he has lost friends, millions or possibly billions. How many people will no longer stay at a Trump hotel or play at a Trump golf course?  He&#8217;s lost half his customers.  If Biden packs the court, moves low-income housing into suburbs to change the makeup of congressional districts, and abolishes the electoral college, the American people with will no longer have a chance to speak, nevermind actualize, change. If the Democrats want to make race-based laws again and curtail freedom of speech, where do you think Abbie Hoffman would be in today&#8217;s world? Perhaps against the Democrats who wield the same tyrannical and anti-Constitutional ideas he fought in the 60s!
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a movie that celebrates the virtues of anti-establishment. Trump is the first president who was not endorsed by any living president. Having done more than any previous president in a single term, it’s not because he&#8217;s ineffective.  The list includes border security, Middle East peace, a booming economy (prior to Covid), improved health care for vets, opportunity zones, favored nations on prescription drugs that drastically reduce the price, to name a few. As an outsider who doesn&#8217;t care about conventional politics, he did what Americans wanted. The Biden swamp is the system that the Chicago Seven fought.
Abbie, the author of Steal This Book, committed suicide long before he had a chance to see Trump steal his act. They were two peas in a pod, sharing a love for criticizing the broken political system via a stream of consciousness rants, while standing in the spotlight. The Trump-Hoffman rants play the same notes,  fighting for the justice of African Americans’, opportunities enshrined in the American Dream, and bringing back our soldiers. Let’s not forget the Seven were protesting at the Democratic Convention.  The person responsible for the bloody violence of peaceful protestors, who denied their right of free assembly was Richard J. Daley, Chicago’s mayor, a Democrat. His actions were the genesis for the charges against the Seven in what could be considered entrapment.
The Left, Netflix, and Aaron Sorkin fail to see that Trump represents much of the change they say they want… Biden is the old guard who failed to pull us out of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, invaded Libya in the years of his vice presidency and failed to fix the VA care for our Vets, as Trump did in his first term with the Veterans Choice Program. Aaron Sorkin is not just a Shande fur de Goyim, but his film is also a Shande for the Democrats.
Courtenay Turner co-wrote this review with an industry insider who could be blackballed for exercising their freedoms of speech. Courtenay Turner is a patriot, a motivational speaker, producer/performer, health/ fitness coach &amp; podcaster, and can be found @kineticcourtz or <a href="http://courtenayturner.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://courtenayturner.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603984484328000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGCwIsPhsO2vrKQpjZOTLIvMV9TFA">courtenayturner.com</a> or Twitter @courtenayturner &amp; the Courtenay Turner Podcast.
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The Netflix bio series on the life and childhood of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is headed to a TV near you and the young actor set to play him as already been cast.
In a post to Twitter on Tuesday, the famed national anthem protester announced that young Jaden Michael will be playing the teenage version of himself.
&#8220;I never thought I would be casting a young me in a show about my life. I can’t wait for the world to see [Jaden Michael] be an all-star on [Netflix],&#8221; he wrote while sharing a photo of the young actor beside a photo of himself at that age. 
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I never thought I would be casting a young me in a show about my life. I can’t wait for the world to see <a href="https://twitter.com/ItsJadenMichael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ItsJadenMichael</a> be an all-star on <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColinInBlackAndWhite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColinInBlackAndWhite</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ava?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ava</a> <a href="https://t.co/ygb4F4kgM5">pic.twitter.com/ygb4F4kgM5</a>
&mdash; Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1321105257053720576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The 17-year-old Jaden Michael previously appeared in Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix series “The Get Down” as well as &#8220;Gotham&#8221; and &#8220;Blue Bloods.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/27/netflix-casts-jaden-michael-as-young-colin-kaepernick/">New York Post</a>, the &#8220;six-episode series will follow Kaepernick’s childhood as a young African-American teen growing up in a white adoptive family and how his experiences shaped both his football talent and his activist work.&#8221;
Kaepernick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernick-netflix-series-coming-soon">will be teaming with</a> “Selma” and “13th” director Ava DuVernay for the series which he will narrate himself.
“With his act of protest, Colin Kaepernick ignited a national conversation about race and justice with far-reaching consequences for football, culture, and for him, personally,” DuVernay said in a press release on Monday. “Colin’s story has much to say about identity, sports, and the enduring spirit of protest and resilience. I couldn’t be happier than to tell this story with the team at Netflix.”
Kaepernick said he is honored to help bring his story to life as a black man adopted into a white neighborhood.
“Too often we see race and Black stories portrayed through a white lens,” said Kaepernick. “We seek to give new perspective to the differing realities that Black people face. We explore the racial conflicts I faced as an adopted Black man in a white community, during my high school years. It’s an honor to bring these stories to life in collaboration with Ava for the world to see.”
Cindy Holland, vice president of Original Content for Netflix, said the streaming giant is proud to bring Colin’s story to life.
“We’re proud to bring Colin’s experience and his creative vision to life as he joins Ava to share his powerful story and message with all our members around the world,” said Holland. “It is an unparalleled union of two strong and defining voices coming together to tell the story about what it’s like to be Black in America.”
Back in 2016, Kaepernick launched a protest movement when he said that America has been allowing cops to “murder” black people and demanded that police officers undergo further training.
“People of color have been targeted by police,” Kaepernick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernicks-practice-socks-pig-cops-hat-james-barrett">said</a>. “So that’s a large part of it and they’re government officials. They are put in place by the government. So that’s something that this country has to change. There’s things we can do to hold them more accountable. Make those standards higher. You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don’t have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist.”
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Earlier this year, Apple TV released Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis as an American college football coach who is hired to run a professional soccer team in England. Unfortunately, Lasso doesn&#8217;t know the first thing about soccer. Having spent the last year living in the UK, my wife and I felt more than prepared to immediately start watching, being all too familiar with the “football” faux-pas which Lasso was about to experience. The show seemed like nothing but fun. And it was, at first.
After watching the first three episodes in quick succession, the fourth episode didn’t appear on the screen during the credits. Thinking our TV was broken, we restarted the system, only to come back to the menu and see — in a terrifying, tiny font — “Episode 4 Releasing in 7 Days.”
What sort of nonsense is this? We don’t get to watch the entire show right now? We have to … wait? Well, waiting is what we did. Excruciating week after excruciating week, we sat down on Friday nights at 5pm to watch what had quickly become one of our new favorite shows.
In the process, we realized that something had changed, and that our usual routine of binge-watching entire seasons had altered the way we viewed television, creating a new set of wants and desires that were now left unfulfilled.
Americans&#8217; New TV-Watching Schedule
Television shows now resemble a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0fIi3H-es">JG Wentworth commercial</a>—“It’s my show and I need it now.” We want to watch a lot at a time, and we want to watch it on our time. According to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, the average American spends roughly 2.7 hours watching TV per day, which adds up to almost 20 hours per week.
Given the amount of time we spend in front of our screens, is it surprising that <a href="https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-declares-binge-watching-is-the-new-normal-migration-1">a Netflix survey</a> found that 61% of users regularly watch between 2-6 episodes of a show in one sitting, and <a href="https://media.netflix.com/en/press-releases/netflix-binge-new-binge-scale-reveals-tv-series-we-devour-and-those-we-savor-1">another study</a> showed that most Netflix users choose to binge-watch a series instead of taking their time (finishing on average one season in one week)?
If we look at these findings, it’s clear that we have specific demands regarding when we want to watch what we want to watch. If a show lies outside of my schedule (i.e. having to wait until Fridays at 5pm to watch Ted Lasso), it’s more likely that we won’t keep watching. But our expectations for timing also bleed into what we expect from the type of content we want to watch.
Viewers&#8217; Expectations
Another strange result of the binge-watching phenomenon is the way that television show producers rely on “hooks” to draw viewers in, and then keep them watching. For example, <a href="http://deadline.com/2017/11/stranger-things-2-ratings-nielsen-netflix-1202200538/">361,000 people</a> watched Season 2 of Stranger Things on the first day it was released. This is, at least in part, the result of the consistent use of cliff-hangers which makes it almost impossible for viewers to wait beyond the allotted 10 seconds before allowing the next episode to play automatically.
Another strategy which drives viewers to keep watching is demonstrated by shows like Broadchurch, which present viewers with an intriguing and unanswered question in the first episode. If you want to find out who murdered 11-year-old Daniel Latimer, you will have to wait until the end of the show. Instead of relying on consistent and repeated cliffhangers, shows like Broadchurch keep viewers engaged by capitalizing on our desire for closure.
As <a href="http://lagunafamily.com/gayani-desilva-md/">Gayani DeSilva</a>, a psychiatrist at Laguna Family Health Center in California, explains, “when watching a TV program, the areas of the brain that are activated are the same as when experiencing a live event. We get drawn into story lines, become attached to characters and truly care about outcomes of conflicts.” Binge-watching eliminates having to experience uncertainty. We no longer have to wait to find out what happens, and can simply keep watching.
The symptoms of our newfound impatience are not limited to binge-watching our favorite shows. When we want to know the age of a certain actor, or what other movies they’ve been in, or their net worth, we don’t call a friend who knows a lot about movies and actors, hope they pick up the phone, and hope they know the answer. Instead, we can just ask Google and immediately quench our thirst for knowledge.
In the same way, binge-watching gives us what we want now. Not only does binge-watching fulfill the expectations we have for conclusion, and the closure that comes with it, but it also creates a certain set of desires that we now need to fulfill.
How Binge-Watching Is Driven By — and Drives — Our Desires
After a difficult day, tuning out in front of the television and binge-watching your favorite show feels like a reliable stress reliever. Our brain releases dopamine — the chemical associated with pleasure and happiness — which reinforces continued viewing and the perceived enjoyment that comes with it. 
Therefore, viewers want shows that make them feel good…literally. We’re not just looking for happy television. We’re looking for shows that give us the dopamine hit that comes with them. If the show is binge-worthy, then that dopamine hit becomes even easier to source. Frankly, it’s not unlike a drug user looking for that next hit. As clinical psychologist <a href="https://pmaonline.com/posts/tag/health/">Dr. Renee Carr</a> explains:
<blockquote>“When engaged in an activity that’s enjoyable such as binge watching, your brain produces dopamine. This chemical gives the body a natural, internal reward of pleasure that reinforces continued engagement in that activity. It is the brain’s signal that communicates to the body, ‘This feels good. You should keep doing this!’ When binge watching your favorite show, your brain is continually producing dopamine, and your body experiences a drug-like high. You experience a pseudo-addiction to the show because you develop cravings for dopamine…The neuronal pathways that cause heroin and sex addictions are the same as an addiction to binge watching. Your body does not discriminate against pleasure. It can become addicted to any activity or substance that consistently produces dopamine.”</blockquote>
We binge watch television shows because we crave the fulfillment that comes with being entertained. In isolation, that’s not necessarily a bad thing — who hasn’t wanted to zone out after a long day? — but it does mean that entertainment industries are now prioritizing shows based on our desire for dopamine-heavy binge-watch sessions. 
Looking at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-shows-netflix-and-amazon-genre-breakdown-for-tv-and-movies-2018-9">data from 2018</a>, 43% of Netflix’s upcoming productions fell into the comedy and sci-fi/fantasy genre. Considering the types of shows people are likely to binge, this isn’t a coincidence. Amazon, on the other hand, focused 25% of their producing efforts on dramas. While these two streaming giants continue to lead the way in modern entertainment, when we consider the focus on delivering binge-worthy content it’s not hard to see why Netflix continues to stay ahead, with 190 million viewers compared to Amazon’s 150 million.
Given this growing focus, we have to wonder if shows like Ted Lasso are going to survive. In our modern environment of entertainment, success has less to do with the quality of the content, but everything to do with the delivery. Gone are the days where people tune in for their “Wednesday night drama.” We watch our shows on our schedules. If a show doesn’t fit with our schedule, we will look to replace it with one that does.
The Role of Societal Pressure
In addition to fulfilling your own desires, there is also pressure on a societal level to keep up. If you didn’t finish entire seasons of Stranger Things within the first weekend of its release, you were left out of the conversation. As clinical psychologist and professor, <a href="http://www.drarianemachin.com/">Dr. Ariane Machin</a> explains, “Cue the &#8216;This Is Us&#8217; phenomenon and feeling left out if you didn’t know what was going on! Binge watching can make us feel a part of a community with those that have also watched it, where we can connect over an in-depth discussion of a show.”
Put simply, are we willing to wait? COVID-19 has consistently pushed back movie release dates, and one has to wonder what sort of impact this will have on future viewership. Will people flock back to the movie theaters, eager to see these long-awaited new releases? Or will everyone stay content with what they already have at their fingertips in their own home?
Ending the Binge-Watching Trend (at Least Some of the Time)
What’s interesting about Ted Lasso is that my wife and I finished the entire season. Starting with the fourth episode and going all the way to the finale, we never missed a week. We either tuned in on Friday nights or found some time over the weekend to watch. What was a frustration at the start — “Why won’t the TV let us keep going?” — actually became a source of joy.
We began to look forward to the next episode, eagerly anticipating what was going to happen, even to the point where we would attempt to predict what would happen to various characters throughout the week. When we finally did get to watch the next episode, that time was cherished and appreciated. Often, we found ourselves rewinding to re-watch the funniest moments because we knew this was all we had for the week.
While I’m not prepared to say that binge-watching needs to disappear, there is something special about delayed gratification. There’s something powerful about looking forward to the next episode and learning to enjoy uncertainty for an entire week. 
Weekly installments instilled in me a sense of wonder, excitement, and energy that I hadn’t felt for a television show in a long time. So, maybe, just maybe, some shows are worth the wait. Or maybe, it’s not the shows that are worth it, but merely the act of waiting.
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Earlier this year, Apple TV released Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis as an American college football coach who is hired to run a professional soccer Television shows now resemble a JG Wentworth commercial—“It’s my show and I need it now.” We want to watch a lot at a time, and we want to watch it on our time. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American spends roughly 2.7 hours watching TV per day, which adds up to almost 20 hours per week.Given the amount of time we spend in front of our screens, is it surprising that a Netflix survey found that 61% of users regularly watch between 2-6 episodes of a show in one sitting, and another study showed that most Netflix users choose to binge-watch a series instead of taking their time (finishing on average one season in one week)?

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Netflix subscriptions cratered during September amid the backlash the streaming company faced for releasing &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; a French film that depicts pre-pubescent girls in sexually provocative situations.
The New York data analytics firms Antenna and YipitData reported a sizable decline in subscriptions, with Antenna claiming that Netflix lost five times as many subscribers in the opening weeks of September than during the entire month of August, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/24/netflix-subscription-cancellations-skyrocket-after-cuties-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Post</a>.
YipitData said that September cancellations were eight times that of those in August, a statistic they deemed &#8220;a multi-year high.&#8221;
Netflix&#8217;s earnings and net subscriber additions fell short of analyst estimates last quarter, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/netflix-nflx-earnings-q3-2020.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNBC</a>. Netflix Vice President of Investor Relations Spencer Wang urged shareholders not to put too much stock in the number of subscribers, saying, &#8220;We just really don’t over-focus on any 90-day period. And just to give you an example, if the quarter was 48 hours longer, we would have come in slightly above our guidance forecast.&#8221;
“The state of the pandemic and its impact continues to make projections very uncertain, but as the world hopefully recovers in 2021, we would expect that our growth will revert back to levels similar to pre-COVID,” the company wrote in a letter to shareholders.
&#8220;Cuties,&#8221; which Netflix has defended as “social commentary against the sexualization of young children,&#8221; drew outrage from viewers and even lawmakers on Capitol Hill, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who urged the Department of Justice to get involved. Last month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-3-dozen-gop-lawmakers-sign-letter-calling-on-netflix-to-be-prosecuted" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">34 GOP legislators signed</a> a letter urging Attorney General William Barr to prosecute Netflix for distributing child pornography.
Earlier this month, a Texas grand jury indicted Netflix for alleged &#8220;lewd visual material.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-grand-jury-indicts-netflix-for-alleged-lewd-visual-material-after-cuties-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>:
<blockquote>Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-TX) tweeted out an image of the indictment, which claimed the streaming giant did “knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value[.]”
The indictment comes weeks after several members of Congress called on Netflix to be investigated for the controversial movie.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who was one of the members of Congress leading the charge to hold Netflix accountable for “Cuties” by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/lawmaker-barr-netflix-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">penning a letter</a> that was also signed by 33 of his colleagues, praised the indictment, telling The Daily Wire, “This is great news and I’d guess the 33 Republicans who joined my letter agree. ‘Cuties’ is child porn and unlike certain media apologists, I and the vast majority of Americans are disgusted by that, which is why a grand jury indicted Netflix. I’d still like to see the DOJ get involved. Netflix broke federal law.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/9-other-times-netflix-offended-viewers-with-its-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">9 Other Times Netflix Offended Viewers With Its Content</a>
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Netflix Cancellations Soar 800% After ‘Cuties’ Debacle: Analysis

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Netflix subscriptions cratered during September amid the backlash the streaming company faced for releasing &quot;Cuties,&quot; a French film that depicts

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Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has defended the controversial movie &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; arguing that American audiences do not understand it as critics increasingly accuse the streaming giant of trafficking in soft-core child porn.
Sarandos said at the virtual <a id="auto-tag_mipcom" href="https://deadline.com/tag/mipcom/" data-tag="mipcom">Mipcom</a> market on Monday that Americans have &#8220;misunderstood&#8221; the film in response to a Texas grand jury arguing that it &#8220;appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value,&#8221; according to <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/10/netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos-fires-back-at-cuties-controversy-1234595815/">Deadline</a>,
“It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling,&#8221; said Sarandos. &#8220;It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States. The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming of age film, it’s the director’s story and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theaters throughout Europe without any of this controversy.”
Netflix found itself at the center of controversy in August when it released a poster for the movie “Cuties” that featured pre-teen girls in sexually suggestive poses. The company apologized after severe online backlash. “We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for ‘Cuties.’ It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which premiered at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-apologizes-for-inappropriate-cuties-poster">Netflix said</a> in a statement.
“Cuties” tells the story of 11-year-old Amy who joins a dance group called “The Cuties” at school with her friends. The film currently holds an 86% score on Rotten Tomatoes and won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance this year. Defenders of the film say that Netflix dramatically misrepresented the story’s content with its poster, noting that the original French advertisements were tame by comparison. However, upon the movie’s release in mid-September, the hashtag #CancelNetflix quickly began trending when clips of the movie revealed that the poster indeed reflected the movie’s content: pre-teen girls dancing sexually.
In response to the backlash, Netflix defended the film as “a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It’s an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”
For her part, French director Maïmouna Doucouré <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuties-director-hits-back-against-critics-its-bold-its-feminist">has also defended her film</a> as a “feminist” work that aims to sound the alarm about the current sexualization of children.
“It’s because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say, ‘We need to protect our children,&#8217;” Doucouré said on a panel for French filmmakers at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
“It’s bold, its feminist, but it’s so important and necessary to create debate and try to find solutions, for me as an artist, for politicians and parents. It’s a real issue,” she added.
Doucouré also hailed her film for being a piece of representation for people of color to see themselves on screen.
“It’s important to see someone like you on the screen, and to grow up with a lot of possibilities. So, of course, diversity and inclusion have to be the keys to progress in our cinema,” she said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-grand-jury-indicts-netflix-for-alleged-lewd-visual-material-after-cuties-controversy">Texas Grand Jury Indicts Netflix For Alleged ‘Lewd Visual Material’ After ‘Cuties’ Controversy</a>
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Netflix Co-CEO Defends ‘Cuties’: ‘Very Misunderstood’ By American Audiences

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has defended the controversial movie &quot;Cuties,&quot; arguing that American audiences do not understand it as critics increasingly

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We had plenty of suspicions about social media platforms long before “The Social Dilemma” dropped on Netflix. The streamer’s new documentary breaks down even more reasons to distrust social media behemoths. Be afraid. Be very afraid. But, of course, be suspicious of any Hollywood product purporting to tell the unvarnished truth. “The Social Dilemma” is no exception.
The docudrama, and we’ll get to that descriptor in a moment, begins with a chilling quote from Sophocles: “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
The film introduces us to former big tech employees who fled their respective companies after their Spider Senses started to tingle. Or, to be more accurate, began ringing like a fire alarm in “The Towering Inferno.”
Something is deeply wrong behind the scenes, and they could no longer be part of the problem.
These young, articulate ex-tech employees share how Silicon Valley’s noble intentions turned toxic before their eyes.
And ours.
“We were naïve about the flip side of the coin,” one ex-worker explains about social media’s promise to make a better future for its users.
From there, it’s a compendium of shocking reveals about how social media works and why we can’t stop consuming it. It’s socially addictive, for starters, and the algorithms tracking our every click ensure it stays that way.
It’s fascinating to see how social media works from the inside, how it preys upon human weakness and works overtime to inflame partisan divides.
Any casual Twitter user could tell you the same, but to see it broken down by the experts is eye-opening.
It’s a massive topic given social media’s tentacles in modern society, and the film only has 90 or so minutes to share its dire warnings. Yet a large chunk of that screen time is dedicated to a fictional family’s digital lifestyle. Professional actors like Skyler Gisondo (“Booksmart,” the “Vacation” remake) act out social media’s negative effects in clunky, oh, so obvious ways. Far better is seeing how Big Tech insiders struggle to keep their own families from staring at their smart phones for hours a day.
The fictional asides prove an atrocious creative decision, especially when we hunger for more hard data, more tools, to fight against social media overreach.
And it is a fight, one to protect our children, our families and, the movie alleges, our democracy, we&#8217;re told.
“The Social Dilemma” strains to be apolitical and mostly succeeds. Liberals should fear our digital overlords as much as rock-ribbed conservatives. Yet the film can’t help but tease themes from a progressive point of view.
Climate Change comes up frequently, and the documentary resurfaces the “Pizzagate” conspiracy, a favorite topic among liberals.
The film’s quiet biases are the most glaring during a foray into social media’s governmental powers. We’re told Facebook swayed an entire election and sent thousands of persecuted Muslims to flee their native Myanmar. Social media, we’re told, could do the same in other nations, even developed western cultures.
You know what’s coming next.
An ominous close up of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brought up in connection to America’s 2016 elections. “The Social Dilemma” slams on the brakes before it dons Hillary Clinton’s Tinfoil Hat, but the suggestions are both obvious and poorly defended.
The spectre of Fake News gets serious consideration here, with experts showing how it thrives on various platforms. It’s too much for any one documentary to connect those concerns with the Fake News churned out from The New York Times and other august news outlets, but their absence here is telling.
When the documentary shreds the “disinformation for profit” business model, it&#8217;s criminal not to name check CNN. It’s still notable how users of social media giants glom onto conspiracy theories and the people who adore them.
The solutions to our digital concerns, of course, aren’t easily found. The toothpaste is out of the proverbial tube, and it’s impossible to erase Twitter, Snapchat, and other platforms with the snap of our fingers.
Big government regulation is essential, we’re told, much like the old Ma Bell phone company eventually felt the government’s boot for our collective good. Again, this part of the film needs more structure, more detail.
“The Social Dilemma” is an important watch despite its glaring flaws. We all need to know what we’re up against when we carelessly scroll through the platforms.
“The Social Dilemma” ends with experts sharing small, but valuable, tips to take back control of your life. It suggests a cultural component missing from our lives, but one that’s sorely needed in our educational system.
Social Media 101: What to Do and What to Avoid in Your Online World.
Without it, parents and family members alike are on their own with only intriguing but also flawed documentaries like “The Social Dilemma” as their guide.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-dem-director-shreds-immigration-narrative-targets-biden-in-new-doc">Dem Director Shreds Immigration Narrative, Targets Biden In New Doc</a>
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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REVIEW: ‘The Social Dilemma’ Paints Scary Picture Of Platforms, Flirts With Left-Wing Conspiracies

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We had plenty of suspicions about social media platforms long before “The Social Dilemma” dropped on Netflix. The streamer’s new documentary breaks down

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A Texas grand jury recently indicted streaming service Netflix for allegedly disseminating &#8220;lewd visual material&#8221; with its film &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; which drew furor last month for its depiction of pre-pubescent girls in sexually provocative situations.
Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-TX) tweeted out an image of the indictment, which claimed the streaming giant did &#8220;knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value[.]&#8221;
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Netflix, Inc. indicted by grand jury in Tyler Co., Tx for promoting material in Cuties film which depicts lewd exhibition of pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 yrs of age which appeals to the prurient interest in sex <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuties?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cuties</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#txlege</a> <a href="https://t.co/UJ1hY8XJ2l">pic.twitter.com/UJ1hY8XJ2l</a>
&mdash; Matt Schaefer (@RepMattSchaefer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattSchaefer/status/1313517817942212608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The indictment comes weeks after several members of Congress called on Netflix to be investigated for the controversial movie.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who was one of the members of Congress leading the charge to hold Netflix accountable for &#8220;Cuties&#8221; by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/lawmaker-barr-netflix-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">penning a letter</a> that was also signed by 33 of his colleagues, praised the indictment, telling The Daily Wire, &#8220;This is great news and I&#8217;d guess the 33 Republicans who joined my letter agree. &#8216;Cuties&#8217; is child porn and unlike certain media apologists, I and the vast majority of Americans are disgusted by that, which is why a grand jury indicted Netflix. I&#8217;d still like to see the DOJ get involved. Netflix broke federal law.&#8221;
Banks also blasted Netflix in an earlier statement, saying in September:
<blockquote>As a father of young daughters, I find it sickening. Not only is this movie fodder for pedophiles, it encourages very young girls to defy their parents’ wishes and share pornographic images of themselves with strangers. Our culture has come a long way in recent years, recognizing the power of television, movies and magazines to affect young girls. The lessons taught in this film are not ones I want my daughters learning. The DOJ should be readying charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography.</blockquote>
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) also urged the Department of Justice to get involved last month, writing to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, “Following [Netflix]’s disturbing promotion of ‘Cuties,’ I sent a letter calling on [DOJ] to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography.”
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Following <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a>’s disturbing promotion of “Cuties,” I sent a letter calling on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography. <a href="https://t.co/P7wLXixU6X">pic.twitter.com/P7wLXixU6X</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1304754228477472768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Other lawmakers joining Cruz and Banks included Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), as well as Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who explained her opposition to the film with a personal anecdote: &#8220;[Netflix] child porn ‘Cuties’ will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend’s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> child porn &quot;Cuties&quot; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#39;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CancelNetflix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CancelNetflix</a> <a href="https://t.co/GI8KFH7LFq">pic.twitter.com/GI8KFH7LFq</a>
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Netflix stood by the film, <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/10/cuties-indictment-netflix-texas-child-sexualization-maimouna-doucoure-sundance-1234592561/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to Deadline</a>, saying in a statement, “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. This charge is without merit and we stand by the film.”
Netflix has reportedly seen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-subscription-cancellations-soar-after-cuties-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hemorrhaging subscriptions</a> since the &#8220;Cuties&#8221; debacle, with an analytics firm claiming that cancellations spiked nearly eightyfold.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/9-other-times-netflix-offended-viewers-with-its-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">9 Other Times Netflix Offended Viewers With Its Content</a>
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Texas Grand Jury Indicts Netflix For Alleged ‘Lewd Visual Material’ After ‘Cuties’ Controversy

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A Texas grand jury recently indicted streaming service Netflix for allegedly disseminating &quot;lewd visual material&quot; with its film &quot;Cuties,&quot; which drew furor

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On my podcast, I have a running gag about the conspiracy theory known as “Klavanon.” Klavanon is not whatever stupid conspiracy theory is currently making the rounds, it’s the truth on which the outlandish theory is based.
Obviously, Klavanon is a play on the absurd ideas that go by the name of QAnon. According to Wikipedia, “QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring is plotting against President Donald Trump… No part of the theory is based on fact.”
Hold on there, Spunky. NO part is based on fact?
Yes, QAnon is an outrageous online fairy tale that does not in any way describe reality. But to say that no part of it is based on fact misses… well, it misses Klavanon: the truth behind the lunacy.
To wit. Widespread child abuse in the Catholic church, often accompanied by Satanic desecrations, and covered up by conspiracy. Widespread accusations of child abuse in Hollywood—accusations that surface every so often only to mysteriously disappear even while convicted and plausibly suspected abusers are hired to work on major films. Jeffrey Epstein’s virtual enslavement of underage girls, and his allegedly deep ties to powerful people including former president Bill Clinton and England’s Prince Andrew. ABC News, run by former Clinton hack George Stephanopoulos, spiking the Epstein story during Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. Epstein’s death in prison when all the guards happened to be gone and all the security cameras happened to stop working…
The sexual abuse of underage boys and girls by the rich, famous, and powerful, and the conspiratorial cover-up of that abuse is epidemic. The attempt to normalize child abuse is plain in movies like “The Reader” and “American Beauty,” in articles like Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime in The New York Times, in Hollywood’s defense of child-rapist Roman Polanski, and elsewhere.
Which brings me to “Cuties,” a French film now streaming on Netflix. “Cuties” tells the story of an 11-year-old Sengalese-French girl. Trying to break away from an oppressively patriarchal Islamic home, she seeks freedom with other little girls who imitate their elders by dancing suggestively. The film has repeated scenes of the children grinding and twerking, with the camera zooming in on body parts.
The director, Maïmouna Doucouré, herself a Sengalese Frenchwoman, says her intention was not pornographic, but feminist. “I wanted to open people’s eyes to what’s truly happening in schools and on social media, forcing them to confront images of young girls made up, dressed up and dancing suggestively to imitate their favorite pop icon.”
I believe this was her intent. The film is clearly dramatizing what French novelist Michel Houellebecq records in novels like “Submission”: With Christianity dead, there is nothing for the French to choose from but the oppressive patriarchy of Islam and the hyper-sexuality of the materialist west.
Doucoure has the right and even the obligation to tell her story. But artists are not exempt from moral law. The film is not an evil film, but it commits an evil act. It abuses its young actresses and includes content that is pedophiliac. As I said on my show—and as The Babylon Bee then wrote as satire—if she had killed a dog onscreen to portray cruelty to animals, everyone would have objected.
Instead, when she merely sexually abused children, and risked exciting those who would abuse them, the materialist Left rushed to her defense. One idiot in Slate decried moral objections to the film as a “creepy conservative obsession.”
Because leftism is at heart a materialist creed, it sees sex as the central expression of our human individuality. Coming into the full expression of your desires, no matter how perverse or deluded, is, for the Left, the essence of what Jung called individuation. That you might have an immoral desire and suppress it to reach full humanity is an idea the Left accepts only reluctantly.
But the abuse of children is not just a violation of consent—because a child isn’t wise enough to consent to something as deeply affecting as sex—it is an abuse of power and a perversion of the spirit that often perverts the spirit it abuses. It is a sin in every sense of that word and should remain a crime.
An artist has a right to portray the sin, but not to commit it. And visual artists, like filmmakers, are especially vulnerable in that regard.
Conservatives can be prissy and prudish about the arts—which, after all, have always been delightfully full of sex and violence and delicious sin-by-proxy. But to turn a blind eye to the sin of child abuse, even when unintentionally committed by a well-meaning artist, is to travel even further down the dark road into evil that is materialist leftism.
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KLAVAN: ‘Cuties’ — When Good Artists Do Wrong

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Thirty-three Republican lawmakers added their names to a letter that Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) sent to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday urging him to prosecute Netflix for distributing child pornography.
In the latest addition to the backlash against Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Cuties&#8221; movie, which depicts pre-pubescent girls in sexually provocative situations, Banks and his colleagues condemned the streaming platform and called for them to be prosecuted under &#8220;18 U.S.C § 2256,&#8221; according to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/17/lawmaker-barr-netflix-child-pornography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller</a>.
&#8220;Thx to the 33 Republicans who joined me in calling on DOJ to prosecute Netflix for distributing Cuties, which is child porn&#8230;&#8221; Banks tweeted. &#8220;No Dems though. They seem to prefer defending Cuties to criticizing it. I don&#8217;t get it. How can you support this filth??&#8221;
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Thx to the 33 Republicans who joined me in calling on DOJ to prosecute Netflix for distributing Cuties, which is child porn&#8230; No Dems though.
They seem to prefer defending Cuties to criticizing it. I don&#39;t get it. How can you support this filth??<a href="https://t.co/AZ93JTr7IU">https://t.co/AZ93JTr7IU</a>
&mdash; Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1306654642315591680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-joins-other-gop-lawmakers-calling-on-doj-to-investigate-netflix-for-distributing-child-porn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>, Banks recently rebuked Netflix as a father, describing the show as “movie fodder for pedophiles&#8221; in a statement to The Daily Caller:
<blockquote>As a father of young daughters, I find it sickening. Not only is this movie fodder for pedophiles, it encourages very young girls to defy their parents’ wishes and share pornographic images of themselves with strangers. Our culture has come a long way in recent years, recognizing the power of television, movies and magazines to affect young girls. The lessons taught in this film are not ones I want my daughters learning. The DOJ should be readying charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography.</blockquote>
Banks&#8217; letter, which included signatures from Republican Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona, Doug Collins of Georgia, and Greg Murphy of North Carolina, reads:
<blockquote>We&#8217;re writing to recommend you bring charges against Netflix, Inc. for the distribution of the film “Cuties,” which contains child pornography.
As defined by 18 U.S.C § 2256, child pornography is any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor, and that conduct does not need to specifically depict sexual activity to qualify.
Cuties clearly meets the United States’ legal definition of child pornography. According to IMDB’s parental guide, Cuties contains, “a scene where an 11-year-old girl dressed in a tank and panties is splashed with water and begins twerking in a frenzied kind of way,” and numerous other, equally distressing depictions of minors including the display of an 11-year-old child’s bare breast. One reviewer recently said, “What the Avengers movies are to comic-book geeks, Cuties is to pedophiles.”
The First Amendment protects corporations and individuals from obscenity law if they can prove artistic expression, but this protection rightfully does not apply to child pornography. Cuties is child pornography and its distributors should be prosecuted accordingly.
Cuties’ defenders claim that the film intends to criticize the objectification of young girls. The reality is that Cuties does depict minors engaged in sexually explicit acts. It’s visual fodder for pedophiles and its message is beside the point.
To us, and to the vast majority of Americans, it&#8217;s deeply upsetting to see a mainstream media company promote the sexualization of children. We appreciate you considering this issue and eagerly await your response.</blockquote>
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Nearly 3 Dozen GOP Lawmakers Sign Letter Calling On Netflix To Be Prosecuted

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Thirty-three Republican lawmakers added their names to a letter that Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) sent to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday urging him to

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Forget Netflix and chill, more like Netflix and cancel.
The mega-streaming company has seen a slew of subscription cancellations after the release of &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; amid charges that the film is tantamount to child pornography.
Netflix released the movie on Sept. 9, followed quickly by a campaign by critics urging subscribers to #CancelNetflix. Three days later, cancellations increased to eight times the daily averages recorded in August, Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/cuties-backlash-netflix-cancellations-record-levels-1234769354/">reported</a>.
&#8220;With the #CancelNetflix hashtag continuing to trend on social media, it is possible elevated churn could continue in the coming days, according to the firm,&#8221; Variety wrote, citing data from research company YipitData.
Things might get worse for Netflix. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is urging the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into Netflix&#8217;s involvement with the movie.
“The film routinely fetishizes and sexualizes these pre-adolescent girls as they perform dances simulating sexual conduct in revealing clothing, including at least one scene with partial child nudity. These scenes in and of themselves are harmful. And it is likely that the filming of this movie created even more explicit and abusive scenes, and that pedophiles across the world in the future will manipulate and imitate this film in abusive ways,” Cruz wrote to Attorney General William Barr.
The disgust over the movie is bipartisan. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) also blasted &#8220;Cuties.&#8221;
“@netflix child porn ‘Cuties’ will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#8217;s 13-year-old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix,” Gabbard wrote on Twitter.
But the film’s director Maïmouna Doucouré claims the movie is actually about the dangers of sexualizing young girls.
“It’s because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say we need to protect our children,” Doucouré said.
Netflix echoed the claim in its own statement, saying &#8220;Cuties&#8221; is “social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It’s an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) also called for the Justice Department to take legal action against Netflix, with Cotton saying &#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse for the sexualization of children, and Netflix&#8217;s decision to promote the film &#8216;Cuties&#8217; is disgusting at best and a serious crime at worst.&#8221;
Sonny Bunch of The Washington Post gave this description of the movie: &#8220;&#8216;Cuties&#8217; follows an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant to France named Amy (Fathia Youssouf) who finds herself repulsed by her traditional Muslim upbringing. But the alternative, the movie suggests, is kind of horrifying in a different way: She falls in with a group of fellow 11-year-olds who are working on a hypersexualized dance routine so they can enter a dance competition. They get their ideas from the Internet, learning to twerk and gyrate and simulate sex acts.&#8221;
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Netflix Subscription Cancellations Soar After ‘Cuties’ Controversy

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After inking a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle has reportedly pitched a movie about the life of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a self-professed Marxist</a>.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-pitches-movie-idea-22673234">The Mirror</a>, a source close to Markle said the royal is &#8220;hugely inspired&#8221; by Cullors and her work.
“Meghan has been blown away by the incredible work Patrisse has done. She thinks her story needs to be told &#8212; and she would love to be the one to make it,&#8221; the source said.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry followed in the footsteps of Barack and Michelle Obama this summer when they signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to help produce content.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have founded a yet-to-be-named production company and signed a multiyear deal with Netflix, which will pay them to make documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming — giving the couple a global platform six months after their dramatic decampment from the House of Windsor,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/business/media/harry-meghan-netflix.html">reported</a>.
“Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope,” the couple said in a statement released to media. “As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us.”
Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder Patrisse Cullors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology">emphasized in 2015</a> that the leaders are “trained Marxists” steeped in ideological theory. “We actually do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers,” said Cullors. “We are trained Marxists.” Many Black Lives Matter rallies have included calls to “abolish capitalism” along with the police.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/black-lives-matter-co-founder-calls-for-hollywood-strike-over-jacob-blake?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">The Hollywood Reporter </a>in late August, Cullors said that Hollywood could be a tremendous help to the Black Lives Matter movement if all of the unions would halt work to push for change.
“I think it’s time for talent, writers, executives, the guild and SAG to show up for Black lives as well,” Cullors said. “Join this strike. Now is the time and our movement is really looking to unions to step in in a particular way and say ‘We’re going to hold back on allowing for the exploitation and the degradation of Black communities to continue under our watch.’ I think Hollywood can really show up in this moment.”
Cullors said that the strike will focus on getting President Donald Trump out of office and forcing the Democratic Party to deliver on their promises to the black community.
“People are tired of having to say the same thing over and over again, and not seeing the change that we deserve from either party, frankly,” she said. “I think the work that we’re up against right now is to ensure that we can get Trump out of office, but also ensure that we can get the Democratic Party to truly create policies that will make sure that Black people are protected from vigilantes and from police torture.”
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REPORT: Meghan Markle Pitches Netflix Movie On Black Lives Matter Co-Founder

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After inking a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle has reportedly pitched a movie about the life of Black Lives

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In response to the enormous backlash surging on social media and beyond, director Maïmouna Doucouré defended her film &#8220;Cuties&#8221; as a &#8220;feminist&#8221; work that aims to sound the alarm about the current sexualization of children.
Speaking on a panel for French filmmakers at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Doucouré said that she did not make a film intended for pedophiles but instead wanted to raise awareness about a societal problem.
&#8220;It&#8217;s because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say, &#8216;We need to protect our children,'&#8221; Doucouré said, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/toronto-cuties-director-says-netflix-film-not-hyper-sexualizing-young-girls-its-a-real-issue">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
&#8220;It&#8217;s bold, its feminist, but it&#8217;s so important and necessary to create debate and try to find solutions, for me as an artist, for politicians and parents. It&#8217;s a real issue,&#8221; she added.
Doucouré also hailed her film for being a piece of representation for people of color to see themselves on screen.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to see someone like you on the screen, and to grow up with a lot of possibilities. So, of course, diversity and inclusion have to be the keys to progress in our cinema,&#8221; she said.
Netflix found itself at the center of controversy last month when it released a poster for the movie “Cuties” that featured pre-teen girls in sexually suggestive poses. The company apologized after severe online backlash. “We’re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for ‘Cuties.’ It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which premiered at Sundance. We’ve now updated the pictures and description,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-apologizes-for-inappropriate-cuties-poster">Netflix said</a> in a statement.
“Cuties” tells the story of 11-year-old Amy who joins a dance group called “The Cuties” at school with her friends. The film holds a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes and won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance this year. Defenders of the film say that Netflix dramatically misrepresented the story’s content with its poster, noting that the original French advertisements were tame by comparison. However, upon the movie’s release last Wednesday, the hashtag #CancelNetflix quickly began trending when clips of the movie revealed that the poster indeed reflected the movie’s content: pre-teen girls dancing sexually.
In response to the backlash, Netflix defended the film as &#8220;a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It&#8217;s an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up &#8211; and we&#8217;d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.&#8221;
Much of the mainstream media has largely run cover for &#8220;Cuties&#8221; and Netflix overall, choosing instead to blame the backlash on misguided conservatives who judged the film before ever watching it. A recent op-ed in Slate even went as far to say that conservatives have a &#8220;creepy&#8221; obsession with the film.
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‘Cuties’ Director Hits Back Against Critics: ‘It’s Bold, It’s Feminist’

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In response to the enormous backlash surging on social media and beyond, director Maïmouna Doucouré defended her film &quot;Cuties&quot; as a &quot;feminist&quot; work that

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The FBI reportedly raided the home of Jerry Harris, a Netflix star who appeared in a video with Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden where he encouraged young blacks to vote, for allegedly soliciting sex from minors.
&#8220;The criminal investigation is based on allegations brought by 14-year-old twin brothers. In interviews with USA TODAY, the boys described a pattern of harassment, both online and at cheer competitions, that started when they were 13 and Harris was 19,&#8221; USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/09/14/jerry-harris-cheerleader-netflix-cheer-fbi-investigation-search-warrant-alleged-sexual-misconduct/5741805002/">reported</a>. &#8220;They said it continued for more than a year.&#8221;
Harris, a celebrity cheerleader who was recently featured in Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Cheer&#8221; docuseries, appeared in a video with Biden earlier this summer.
In a piece titled “FBI Raids Home of Netflix Star and Biden Surrogate Over Underage Sex Allegation,” The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/fbi-raids-home-of-netflix-star-biden-surrogate-over-underage-sex-allegation/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Just three months ago the Biden campaign used Harris, who has over a million followers on Instagram, as part of Biden&#8217;s push to sway young voters and &#8220;win back the internet,&#8221; Time magazine reported. The Instagram live video of Harris and Biden was viewed nearly 300,000 times and remains on social media.</blockquote>
It appears that following the publication of the Free Beacon&#8217;s report that the social media post was removed from Instagram.
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“Nine law enforcement agents spent about three hours Monday afternoon in Harris&#8217; home in Naperville, Illinois,” USA Today added. “The allegations against Harris have been reported to at least four other law enforcement agencies in Texas and Florida.”
The news comes after Netflix has faced backlash in recent days over a highly controversial film that has been widely accused of sexualizing young children. Both prominent Republicans and Democrats have spoken out against the film.
Clips from the Netflix movie “Cuties” released earlier this week are causing survivors of sexual assault and abuse to relive traumatic experiences while normalizing further sexual exploitation of children, sex trafficking survivors and advocates told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sex-trafficking-survivor-advocate-netflixs-cuties-already-having-real-life-ramifications-for-sexual-abuse-victims">The Daily Wire</a>.
The Daily Wire noted:
<blockquote>“Cuties,” released on Wednesday and promoted by Netflix, focuses on Amy, an 11-year-old Senegalese girl, growing up in Paris in a traditional Muslim family. The film reveals early that Amy’s father plans to take a second wife, and Amy is thrown into crisis by rejecting the extreme values of her father and looking for belonging in the internet age.
She learns suggestive dance moves — which are portrayed vividly on screen by pre-pubescent girls grabbing themselves and each other and contorting themselves in sexual positions — from social media to earn a spot on a dance troupe at her school called the “Cuties.” The movie ends with Amy, crying, fleeing the troupe and trying to regain her innocence living out a more normal childhood.
Clips of the movie flooded social media soon after its release, sparking strong backlash against Netflix and the movie’s creator, Maïmouna Doucouré, for its racy displays of young girls and camera work that puts the girls’ crotches and buttocks squarely on screen. While many critics blasted the movie as soft-core child pornography, sex trafficking survivor and advocate Eliza Bleu said the film is also giving sexual abuse victims flashbacks of some of the darkest moments of their lives.</blockquote>
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FBI Raids Home Of ‘Netflix Star and Biden Surrogate’ For Allegedly Soliciting Sex From Minors, Report Says

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Actor Jeremy Tardy has left the Netflix show &#8220;Dear White People&#8221; due to alleged &#8220;racial discrimination.&#8221;
In a lengthy Twitter announcement on Friday, Tardy said that he will not be returning for the show&#8217;s fourth and final season due to alleged practices of racial discrimination at Lionsgate &#8212; a complaint stemming from what he says is unfair pay.
&#8220;Unfortunately I will not be joining NETFLIX’s Dear White People for its fourth and final season due to my experience with Lionsgate and their practices of racial discrimination,&#8221; wrote Tardy. &#8220;After being offered to return for several episodes my team was notified that our counter offer would not be considered and that the initial offer was the &#8216;best and final.&#8217; The news was disturbing because one of my white colleagues – being a true ally – revealed they too had received the same initial offer and had successfully negotiated a counter offer.&#8221;
According to Tardy, when his team expressed the discrepancy to Lionsgate, the company rejected his attempts at negotiation.
&#8220;My team expressed this issue to Lionsgate and the producers maintained their position that the white actor was able to negotiate while I was not- regardless of my credits and experience,&#8221; he said. &#8220;With this information six recurring cast members, along with myself, banded together on Monday, August 30th to pass on Lionsgate&#8217;s initial offers.&#8221;
&#8220;Our stance was to move powerfully as a unit in the negotiation process and, more importantly, to stand on principle because this is not simply a monetary matter,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We were all aware of the notorious pay disparities between people of color and our white colleagues on Netflix and Lionsgate shows; so this made it blatantly obvious.&#8221;
Despite the collective bargaining arrangement, Lionsgate allegedly undermined their negotiation positions with &#8220;side deal offers&#8221; and other tactics.
&#8220;However, our collective bargaining power was undermined with side deal offers and lack of transparency,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These tactics led to some individuals taking deals before the collective group received a fair and equitable negotiation process.&#8221;
Beyond the pay discrepancies, Tardy felt that since these companies have all expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement it was the height of hypocrisy to deny fair and equal pay to people of color, especially on a show that deals with systemic racism.
&#8220;These companies have recently released statements and even donations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am calling out their shameful practices of discrimination and racial inequality with regard to how they have historically undervalued and lowballed people of color. Politically correct lip service and symbolic gestures do not absolve you of the daily responsibility of doing business in a fair and equitable manner.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact that this has occurred behind the scenes of a show which purports to address systemic issues of racism and discrimination displays the very epitome of hypocrisy. Lionsgate. Netflix. I see you. We see you,&#8221; he concluded.
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not be considered and that the initial offer was the “best and final”. This news was disturbing because one of my white colleagues — being a true ally — revealed that they too had received the same initial offer and had successfully negotiated a counter offer. My team expressed
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Over the weekend, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick criticized the NFL for giving lip-service to social justice while doing nothing internally to resolve racial discrimination.
“While the NFL runs propaganda about how they care about Black Life, they are still actively blackballing Eric Reid (<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/E_Reid35?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305236968243171330%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthespun.com%2Fnfl%2Fcolin-kaepernick-sends-a-clear-message-to-the-nfl-on-sunday" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-focusable="true">@E_Reid35</a>) for fighting for the Black community. Eric set 2 franchise records last year, and is one of the best defensive players in the league,” Kaepernick tweeted. 
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‘Dear White People’ Actor Leaves Show, Claims ‘Racial Discrimination’

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Actor Jeremy Tardy has left the Netflix show &quot;Dear White People&quot; due to alleged &quot;racial discrimination.&quot; In a lengthy Twitter announcement on Friday,

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Even though the backlash against Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Cuties&#8221; was largely bi-partisan, a <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2020/09/netflix-cuties-controversy-explained-why-conservatives-are-obsessed-with-the-movie.html">new op-ed in Slate</a> has put the blame squarely on the shoulders of conservatives.
According to Sam Adams, conservatives have a &#8220;creepy&#8221; obsession with the new French film, which has been accused of indefensibly sexualizing 11-year-old girls in the name of artistry.
&#8220;The movie finds itself at the toxic intersection of QAnon delusion and right-wing moral panic, with a smattering of leftist outrage on the side. Brietbart has posted about the movie a half-dozen times in the past two days, singling out critics who praised the film, several of whom have received death threats and been harassed off social media,&#8221; wrote Adams. &#8220;And Thursday night, Tucker Carlson made it a <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1304223742630006786">centerpiece of his show</a>, accusing a nonspecific ‘they’ behind the movie of wanting to &#8216;<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/20/tucker-carlson-netflix-cuties-twerking-young-girls/">destroy young girls</a>.'&#8221;
Adams argued that critics of the movie have not actually seen it, choosing instead to go off of the marketing materials and viral clips online. Addressing those who would say that &#8220;Cuties&#8221; pushes soft-core child pornography, Adams argued that &#8220;intent&#8221; matters in this case.
&#8220;By definition, pornography requires intent, and whether or not Doucouré succeeded (and the reviews are divided on this point), her intent is clear,&#8221; Adams continued. &#8220;The movie’s protagonist, Amy, is an 11-year-old bouncing between the repressive culture of her conservative Islamic upbringing, where she is warned that &#8216;evil shows itself in the scantily clad women,&#8217; and the hypersexualized environment of Western culture, where images of adult women doing strip-club gyrations are emulated by tweens on social media for likes. The movie presents those images in order to critique them.&#8221;
Adams then addressed the politics of the situation by highlighting how conservatives were quick to point the finger at Susan Rice and former President Barack Obama — as Rice is a member of Netflix’s board of directors and the Obamas have a production deal with the streaming giant. According to Adams, conservatives now have a rallying cry to enlist more QAnon followers.
&#8220;It’s hardly accidental that most if not all of the right-wing attacks on Cuties invoke Netflix’s connection to Barack Obama, although the Obamas, who do have a production deal with Netflix, had nothing to do with the film’s acquisition,&#8221; said Adams. &#8220;It’s a way of winking at QAnon’s insistence that the Democratic Party is a haven for pedophiles.&#8221;
Conservatives are hardly the only people in America currently denouncing the movie &#8220;Cuties.&#8221; As of this writing, the movie holds a lousy <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9196192/">2.1 rating on IMDb</a> and an audience score of <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cuties">3% on Rotten Tomatoes</a> — two difficult scores to achieve unless the movie was universally disliked beyond the elite critical class. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) also joined in the attack on &#8220;Cuties&#8221; over the weekend when she said the movie will &#8220;whet the appetite of pedophiles.&#8221;
&#8220;[Netflix] child porn &#8216;Cuties&#8217; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#8217;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit,&#8221; tweeted Gabbard.
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Clips from the Netflix movie “Cuties” released earlier this week are causing survivors of sexual assault and abuse to relive traumatic experiences while normalizing further sexual exploitation of children, sex trafficking survivors and advocates told The Daily Wire.
“Cuties,” released on Wednesday and promoted by Netflix, focuses on Amy, an 11-year-old Senegalese girl, growing up in Paris in a traditional Muslim family. The film reveals early that Amy’s father plans to take a second wife, and Amy is thrown into crisis by rejecting the extreme values of her father and looking for belonging in the internet age.
She learns suggestive dance moves — which are portrayed vividly on screen by pre-pubescent girls grabbing themselves and each other and contorting themselves in sexual positions — from social media to earn a spot on a dance troupe at her school called the “Cuties.” The movie ends with Amy, crying, fleeing the troupe and trying to regain her innocence living out a more normal childhood.
Clips of the movie flooded social media soon after its release, sparking strong backlash against Netflix and the movie’s creator, Maïmouna Doucouré, for its racy displays of young girls and camera work that puts the girls’ crotches and buttocks squarely on screen. While many critics blasted the movie as soft-core child pornography, sex trafficking survivor and advocate Eliza Bleu said the film is also giving sexual abuse victims flashbacks of some of the darkest moments of their lives.
“It takes them back to a moment when they were abused and overtly sexualized as a child,” Bleu told The Daily Wire in an interview. “They might have to call off work the next day. They might have thoughts of suicide. Those are the real-life ramifications of that material being so open and readily available.”
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Victims Refuse Silence Vice President Teresa Helm, who has alleged that disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her when she was 22, accused Netflix of sexualizing “our most impressionable, vulnerable, and most easily targeted” by marketing and releasing “Cuties.” (Read Helm’s full statement below).
Helm’s own story of sexual abuse has been highlighted on Netflix in the docu-series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” which she praised for raising awareness of the process that pedophiles and sexual criminals use to groom victims. Helm said “Cuties” has done the opposite, providing pedophiles with material they can use to confuse and convince children to become unwitting victims.
“Shows such as ‘Cuties’ are dangerous and should be held accountable for the complicity of sexual exploitation and the distribution of sexual content of minors,” Helm said. “Netflix is perpetuating the supply and demand factor of sexual exploitation, abuse, and trafficking.”
Netflix defended its film against criticism in a comment to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/netflix-defends-cuties-outrage-girls-twerk/">The Daily Caller News Foundation</a> on Thursday.
“Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children,” Netflix said. “It’s an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”
Sex trafficking and abuse, especially involving minors, has hit “staggering” levels recently, exacerbated by the coronavirus and widely-adopted lockdown policies, according to Bleu. Presciently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sex-trafficking-survivor-turned-advocate-coronavirus-shutdown-perfect-storm-for-abuse-heres-what-you-should-know">Bleu had predicted</a> the tragic outcome of lockdown policies during an interview with The Daily Wire in early April.
Children kept away from schools and social activities and forced online are more likely to meet potential abusers and pedophiles, Bleu explained. In many cases, children forced inside are living with their abusers to begin with.
In March, the first month of mass lockdowns over the coronavirus, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/24/child-exploitation-complaints-rise-106-to-hit-2-million-in-just-one-month-is-covid-19-to-blame/#5c70cf154c9c">recorded</a> a 106% increase in reports of suspected online child sexual exploitation over a year earlier. The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network&#8217;s National Sexual Assault Hotline <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/11/sexual-assault-hotline-child-sexual-abuse-calls-rise-during-pandemic/5413835002/">reported</a> in July that for a week it had experienced its highest demand ever for services in its 26-year history. Many of those requests for help came from children.
“Like it’s not bad enough. Like it’s not bad enough out here, you know?” Bleu said, frustrated with the timing of the release of “Cuties,” as well as the movie’s content. “Like it’s not bad enough, then they gotta go and make it worse.”
Bleu often works with victimized children to teach them the difference between “safe” and “unsafe” touching to prevent further abuse. She said the graphic displays shown in “Cuties” makes her work with children much harder because Netflix has put those images in the homes of millions of children who do not understand the difference between art and real life.
“Those were strip club moves. Those were gentlemen club moves meant for adults for a specific purpose to get men or women or whomever to tip an adult performer,” Bleu said of the dancing in “Cuties.” Bleu herself was trafficked through such clubs.
“When we are talking to children, we talk about a safe touch and an unsafe touch and boundaries,” Bleu said. “The actions that I saw in that short clip would work directly against what I would show as a safe touch. You know, brutal honesty, petting of the crotch, zooming into that area, that makes it look like those are safe places to touch.”
Bleu is a self-described supporter of the arts and of artists to push limits and make people uncomfortable with how certain truths about the world are depicted. “Cuties” crosses the line, however.
“There’s more than one way to do it. This is just sending a horrible message, and it terrifies me because this type of behavior does have real-life ramifications. This isn’t a made-up thing,” Bleu said. “You can dance and be completely normal. You can dance and be completely amazing. I am a big believer in the performing arts, but this is too far.”
Read Helm&#8217;s full statement below:
<blockquote>So, this is the world that humanity opens their eyes to. A world where a major production company sexualizes our most impressionable, vulnerable, and most easily targeted. Our children. Through the production of &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; Netflix has &#8230; demonstrated a mass scale of objectification and sexual exploitation of little girls disguised and pushed as family entertainment. This is one prime example of what it is like to be groomed. The grooming process is a crucial component to predators. As an Epstein, Maxwell, Kellen survivor and as Vice President of Victims Refuse Silence, I feel Netflix fared well at exposing the process of grooming in their Filthy Rich docu-series. And now, they have reverted horrendously. Another factor of grooming? Yes it is. Shows such as &#8220;Cuties&#8221; are dangerous and should be held accountable for the complicity of sexual exploitation and the distribution of sexual content of minors. Netflix is perpetuating the supply and demand factor of sexual exploitation, abuse, and trafficking.</blockquote>
Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined other Republicans in Congress on Friday to urge the Department of Justice to investigate Netflix after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-many-mainstream-film-critics-have-come-out-in-defense-of-cuties-heres-why-their-arguments-are-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">backlash against &#8220;Cuties,&#8221;</a> a new movie that depicts young girls in sexually provocative ways.
Cruz tweeted a public letter he sent to Attorney General Bill Barr, writing on Saturday, &#8220;Following [Netflix]’s disturbing promotion of ‘Cuties,’ I sent a letter calling on [DOJ] to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography.&#8221;
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Following <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a>’s disturbing promotion of “Cuties,” I sent a letter calling on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography. <a href="https://t.co/P7wLXixU6X">pic.twitter.com/P7wLXixU6X</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1304754228477472768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz joined other lawmakers in his condemnation of Netflix, such as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who published an open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Friday and tweeted, &#8220;[Netflix] should explain to the public why it is distributing a film, &#8216;Cuties,&#8217; that appears to sexually exploit children and endanger child welfare.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Netflix</a> should explain to the public why it is distributing a film, “Cuties,” that appears to sexually exploit children and endanger child welfare <a href="https://t.co/OZH4HCLy0Y">pic.twitter.com/OZH4HCLy0Y</a>
&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1304503913606000640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“There’s no excuse for the sexualization of children, and Netflix’s decision to promote the film ‘Cuties’ is disgusting at best and a serious crime at worst,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/11/gop-lawmakers-justice-department-netflix-cuties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller</a>. “I urge the Department of Justice to take action against Netflix for their role in pushing explicit depictions of children into American homes.”
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Like any parent, I find ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a>⁩ decision to peddle child pornography disgusting. And it’s criminal. ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a>⁩ should take swift action. <a href="https://t.co/ReEVk7F8t9">https://t.co/ReEVk7F8t9</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1304763865637548034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiana-congressman-introduces-bill-to-cut-off-federal-unemployment-funds-to-convicted-rioters" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rep. Jim Banks</a> (R-IN) also rebuked Netflix as a father, describing the show as &#8220;sickening&#8221; and calling on the DOJ to charge the company for distribution of child pornography. In a statement to The Daily Caller, Banks said:
<blockquote>As a father of young daughters, I find it sickening. Not only is this movie fodder for pedophiles, it encourages very young girls to defy their parents’ wishes and share pornographic images of themselves with strangers. Our culture has come a long way in recent years, recognizing the power of television, movies and magazines to affect young girls. The lessons taught in this film are not ones I want my daughters learning. The DOJ should be readying charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography.</blockquote>
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As a father of three young daughters, I find “Cuties” sickening. Glad to join <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTomCotton</a> in calling on the DOJ to bring charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography. <a href="https://t.co/xmHO3b1yLN">https://t.co/xmHO3b1yLN</a>
&mdash; Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1304556525789351937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Republicans weren&#8217;t the only ones to blast Netflix. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-are-now-complicit-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-netflix-for-promoting-child-porn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard</a> (D-HI) also condemned them with a personal anecdote, writing, &#8220;[Netflix] child porn &#8216;Cuties&#8217; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#8217;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> child porn &quot;Cuties&quot; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#39;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CancelNetflix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CancelNetflix</a> <a href="https://t.co/GI8KFH7LFq">pic.twitter.com/GI8KFH7LFq</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1304587833584226305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Netflix defended “Cuties&#8221; in a statement to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/netflix-defends-cuties-outrage-girls-twerk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller News Foundation</a>, describing it as &#8220;a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It’s an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.&#8221;
Netflix has gotten in hot water before for releasing content many find offensive, such as a show that presented <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflixs-the-baby-sitters-club-reboot-features-a-transgender-9-year-old" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">transgender children</a> in a positive light, and another that depicted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-christmas-special-that-features-gay-jesus-weed-smoking-mary-sparks-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jesus as gay</a> and the Virgin Mary as a pothead. The hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1304062809198809094" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#CancelNetflix</a> was trending at the top of Twitter on Thursday.
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&mdash; Netflix (@netflix) <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1286390878546694149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-slide-is-greased-pastor-john-macarthur-slams-netflix-cuties-controversy-as-next-small-step-for-nation-without-a-conscience" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘The Slide Is Greased’: Pastor John MacArthur Slams Netflix ‘Cuties’ Controversy As ‘Next Small Step’ For ‘Nation Without A Conscience’</a>
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Pastor John MacArthur described the furor over Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;Cuties&#8221; on Thursday as the next step for a nation that has disregarded all notions of sexual morality.
In an <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6189703563001?playlist_id=931078442001#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">interview</a> with Fox News host Shannon Bream, MacArthur said, &#8220;We&#8217;re absolutely where you would expect to be if you had 30 years of trying to destroy morality; if you had 30 years of a sexual revolution, a homosexual revolution, and you thought you were going to be able to stop it at some point and say, &#8216;Well, that&#8217;s far enough, go no further.&#8217; Well, that&#8217;s just not possible.&#8221;
&#8220;The slide is greased, and it&#8217;s rapidly going downhill at a warp-speed,&#8221; MacArthur continued. &#8220;And to try to intervene at some point and say, &#8216;That&#8217;s enough,&#8217; you&#8217;d have to start a long time ago. This is just the next small step in the disintegration of an entire nation that has no conscience.&#8221;
Netflix has recently been taking flak for &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; a movie that depicts pre-pubescent girls in sexually provocative situations, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-child-sexualizing-cuties-movie-on-netflix-is-even-worse-than-we-thought-its-time-to-cancel-netflix" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>.
As Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-child-sexualizing-cuties-movie-on-netflix-is-even-worse-than-we-thought-its-time-to-cancel-netflix" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> in part:
<blockquote>With these horrific scenes now publicly available, it seems almost pointless to engage with the plainly absurd notion that the filmmakers had 11-year-old children writhe around and gyrate while barely clothed as some kind of protest against the sexualization of children. It would be like a slasher film, featuring several scenes of various screaming victims being disemboweled for our amusement, claiming in its defense that it only meant to comment on the problem of graphic violence in film. Indeed, that actually is the defense often offered for slasher flicks, and it’s as weak in that case as it is here. The guy who made “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” may have told himself that he had nobler intentions, but the fact remains that most people who watch “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” just want to see, well, a Texas chainsaw massacre.</blockquote>
Netflix has since taken to defending the film. “&#8217;Cuties&#8217; is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children,” the company said in a statement to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/netflix-defends-cuties-outrage-girls-twerk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller</a>. “It’s an award-winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up &#8212; and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”
Pointing out the article he recently wrote for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/macarthur-is-americas-conscience-vanishing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a> that questioned if the country has lost its conscience, MacArthur said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve lost any sense of the law of God in the heart. It&#8217;s been overturned by a corrupt view of morality. We&#8217;ve lost the role of the conscience because we&#8217;ve been told to feel no shame. And when you have a dynamic movement in the culture toward evil at all levels, it just is not possible to stop it at some point where you say, &#8216;That&#8217;s too far.'&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/macarthur-is-americas-conscience-vanishing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MACARTHUR: Is America’s Conscience Vanishing?</a>
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‘The Slide Is Greased’: Pastor John MacArthur Slams Netflix ‘Cuties’ Controversy As ‘Next Small Step’ For ‘Nation Without A Conscience’

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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) slammed Netflix late on Friday evening for promoting &#8220;Cuties&#8221; — which has been widely accused of sexualizing children — calling the movie &#8220;child porn&#8221; and declaring that the company was &#8220;now complicit&#8221; in helping fuel the &#8220;child sex trafficking trade.&#8221;
“The movie focuses on a group of 11-year-old girls who form a twerking dance group, much to the chagrin of one character’s very conservative Senegalese family,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cuties-11-year-olds-sexual-dance-trending-cancel-netflix">reported</a>. “Netflix previously apologized after the poster for the French film showed the underage cast posing in a sexual manner. Now, there’s renewed criticism over the movie, which premiered at Sundance.”
&#8220;@netflix child porn &#8216;Cuties&#8217; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade,&#8221; Gabbard wrote on Twitter. &#8220;1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#8217;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> child porn &quot;Cuties&quot; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#39;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CancelNetflix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CancelNetflix</a> <a href="https://t.co/GI8KFH7LFq">pic.twitter.com/GI8KFH7LFq</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1304587833584226305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Netflix defended the movie in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-defends-cuties-movie-accused-of-sexualizing-children-calling-it-a-powerful-story">statement</a> on Thursday, writing: “Cuties is a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It’s an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up &#8212; and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.”
Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-child-sexualizing-cuties-movie-on-netflix-is-even-worse-than-we-thought-its-time-to-cancel-netflix">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Several weeks ago, Netflix began promoting a new film from French director Maimouna Doucoure called “Cuties.” The poster, featuring scantily clad children posing suggestively, caused well-deserved outrage. The Sundance Film Festival — which honored the film with a directing award — provided a synopsis that didn’t do much to quell the anger. According to Sundance, “Cuties” tells the story of an 11-year-old girl named Amy who, “through an ignited awareness of her burgeoning femininity, propels the group to enthusiastically embrace an increasingly sensual dance routine, sparking the girls’ hope to twerk their way to stardom at a local dance contest.” It is perhaps worth mentioning that Sundance was co-founded by a man who is now in prison for child sexual abuse. The film’s official description from Netflix was only slightly less grotesque-sounding: “Amy, 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family’s traditions.”
After the backlash, Netflix apologized — not for the film itself, but simply for the “inappropriate artwork.” The streaming service also changed the synopsis, getting rid of any mention of “twerking” and instead calling it a “free-spirited dance crew.” Netflix did not bother to explain why they used that “inappropriate artwork” in their promotional materials in the first place. If it doesn’t actually reflect the content of the film, and if they are not trying to attract an audience of pedophiles who wish to see pubescent girls gyrate on camera, then what was the thought process behind the way it was originally marketed? We were never told.
The website Bustle said that the poster was simply “botched.” Well, I can understand “botching” a poster with a typo or some other error due to carelessness, but how do you “botch” something by accidentally turning it into softcore child porn? Many other media outlets rushed to the defense of the twerking children’s movie. An article by Anna Menta on The Decider scolded the film’s detractors, baselessly linking the criticism to the QAnon conspiracy theory, and insisting that we detractors owe the director an apology.  </blockquote>
Read Matt Walsh’s full column <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-child-sexualizing-cuties-movie-on-netflix-is-even-worse-than-we-thought-its-time-to-cancel-netflix">here</a>.
This article has been updated to include additional information.
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