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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Downplaying Tasers to Kids

There is a popular kids show called "iCarly", that is on the Nickelodeon channel-- it's geared for young teens. The most recent episode had a very disturbing scene where a boy who is dating the main character Carly, says something like "I better be careful or your brother will tase me". Then Carly's best fried, a tomboy named Sam, says:
"Oh, tasing's not so bad... I got tased once... it's kind of a rush".
This is a blatantly irresponsible thing to have in a kids show, and makes me wonder if this was intentionally put in there to make tasers seem cool and not dangerous to kids. An additional creepy thing was as the Sam character said this, she was standing next to her locker, and in her locker, right behind her head, very obviously, was a Star of David necklace. It was almost as if it was meant to be symbolic for her taser line. The Sam character is not jewish, and thus the presence of the necklace was inexplicable.

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