In response to yet another post arguing about Paw Patrol

[feotakahari]

The biggest assumption here is that folks haven’t watched Paw Patrol. There was this thing on TV Tropes a while back where people who had watched the later seasons of Spongebob Squarepants thought Mr. Krabs had become ridiculously evil and belonged on the Complete Monster page. Other people who didn’t watch Spongebob anymore thought that was stupid and there was no way Mr. Krabs belonged on that page. I think someone actually got banned from TV Tropes for insisting Mr. Krabs was a Complete Monster! Now I’m seeing posts by people who did watch Paw Patrol and were offended by such-and-such, and posts by people who didn’t watch Paw Patrol and think being offended by Paw Patrol is obviously stupid, because it can’t possibly be that bad . . .

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[lb_lee]

Knowing nothing about Paw Patrol except what my cereal box has told me, I am so curious and yet so dubious. I thought it was just dogs saving people!

[feotakahari]

Honestly, I don’t care one way or the other about Paw Patrol. Just because folks are offended doesn’t mean they’re right, any more than it means they’re wrong. What I actually hate is bad Internet arguments.

(I swear there was an essay a while back about Paw Patrol having some kind of garbage collection dog who was treated in a demeaning way. I’m not finding it now, though. That essay seemed less lecture-ey than the rest of the stuff I’m digging up.)