Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Curious George: The Curious Little PUNKy



[Warning the above is not true! You are not looking at a monkey!]

Or alternative post title:
Curious George: The Subversive, Manipulative Little "Monkey (Allegedly)"

Hi Zaradon,

Sorry for waiting so long to reply for you. The pictures of your previous post were so haunting I didn't even want to write to you, let alone even think about you. But your post really got me thinking about things that were haunting and evil. And although the possum as well as the raccoon are both terrifying animals at least they are upfront about it. I mean that possums ugly ass face tells you its intentions, and the same goes when there is a raccoon eating your face, you atleast know it is attacking to you.

This leads me to the topic of this letter I am writing you today Zaradon. It is about a series of books, very dark books that are subversive and are manipulating the minds of our youth. It is this curious george: the curous little monkey series. Here are the problems with it.

First it is reducing readers (predominantly impressionable youth) knowledge of chimpanzees, a species at a high rate of extinction. Curious George if you see him in his graphic depictions does not have a tail. He also possesses amazing social cognitive skills such as theory-of-mind like capabilities, and shared intentionality with the man in the yellow hat. Both of these two things highly suggest that Curious George is a chimpanzee, however the book presents him as a monkey. This is a gross injustice to the taxonomy of our reader's closest living relatives (not ours because we are dinosaurs and erniesaurus (see above post) is ours)!

Secondly the book subversively promotes slavery. The man from the yellow hat goes to Africa and takes George from his native lands and then takes him back to america and than locks him up in a zoo. He takes him from Africa and makes him work in america against his will. Sounds dangerously similar to the shameful past of the native country of many of our readers (which may only be two or three people). So you may be thinking this can't be slavery because it isn't a human it is a chimpanzee, well, I will send you another letter soon my dearest zaradon that will change the way you think about chimpanzees. So get ready.

All the best to you on the holiday season's!
Sincerely,
D. Rex

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