This is happening in the UK, and it's happening now.
And it's wrapped up in some other pretty ugly shit, too. How else can you read this comment by one parent?
What is scary is the BBC's determination to show 'minorities' on CBeebies at every available opportunity.
How does that sound to folks out there? Any hints of, ooh, I don't know... racism?
What is scary to me is that there are people who see nothing wrong with expressing this kind of sentiment in public.
How about this?
One father said he would ban his daughter from watching the channel because he thought it would "give her nightmares".
Again, what would give me nightmares is that people actually think like that in the same country as me, and the same century as me. After all, it is on such ideas as this that arguments for eugenics can be built. I will leave others to follow the slippery slope fallacy to the Godwin's Law conclusion, but suffice to say I do not find eugenics a pretty concept even in its best form. And the idea expressed by that father do not lead to the best type of thinking about eugenics.
The presenter herself, Cerrie Burnell, said: “It can only be a good thing that parents are using me as a chance to talk disability with their children. It just goes to show how important it is to have positive disabled role models on CBeebies and television in general.”
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