http://www.metafilter.com/tags/LiberalFascism Posts tagged with 'LiberalFascism' at MetaFilter. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:41:47 -0800 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:41:47 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72958/Wowe%2DMalthusian%2DFear%2DMongering%2DCan%2DBe%2DAnnoying While the latest Pixar/Disney animated film, <a href="http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/wall-e/">Wall-E</a> (<a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/">teasers, trailers and clips</a>) <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25440946/">debuted as the No. 1 movie</a> this past weekend and has been met <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/movies/27wall.html">with</a> <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2194322/">critical</a> <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/06/pixar-defies-gr.html">acclaim</a>, including a 97% "Fresh Rating" at <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/">RottenTomatoes</a> and a 93% ranking by critics and 90% by viewers at <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/walle">MetaCritic</a>, the film has <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/another-brick-in-the-wall-e/">outraged the radical right</a>. "<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODBmN2FmNjIwNmUxMDBkZDc5MjUxYWIwYjBjODExNzQ =]">[M]y kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind...</a>" "...<a href="http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTYxNmIxZjNiYzRhZDYyYWVhODI1YzVmMGQ0ODViMGQ=">I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade</a>." "<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2E2NjdhYjJiYTI4ZTBlM2IzZDFlMjZkNjg3N2Y3N2Q=">I agree that the Malthusian fear mongering was annoying</a>."^{<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/01/right-wing-hates-wall-e/">*</a>} A <a href="http://liberalfascism.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDQ2NTBiMzhhYjM2MjJmYTM4ODA5NTIwYThlMmM1YWQ=">National Review reader</a> is dismayed over "the film’s 'fascistic elements,' which apparently include the movie’s discussion of the environment, a character 'getting in touch with her emotional, passionate inner self,' and the use of the color red."^{<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/01/right-wing-hates-wall-e/">*</a>}</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72958 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:41:47 -0800 Disney LiberalFascism Pixar Wall-E ericb