It just keeps getting dumber…
The 1990 hit action-comedy film “Kindergarten Cop” — starring the iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger — has been pulled from a planned screening at NW Film Center’s Cinema Unbound. The screening was intended to kick off the summer drive-in movie event to commemorate the film’s 30th anniversary.
Many might not know this, but the film has a special significance in Oregon, and credited for putting Astoria on the map. Also — it’s a delightful movie about a police officer who comes to bond with a handful of adorable children, and ends up saving them from a pair of deranged criminals.
So, why was the film pulled? Take a wild guess — take as long as you need to.
That’s right: the whole “cop” part is the problem.
“Kindergarten Cop” was pulled from the planned screening after Portland author Lois Leveen chastised the movie on Twitter. Leveen made the predictable claim that the film glorifies police violence. And as we all know, it is a crime in Lefty Land to portray police in any sort of even slightly positive way, which the film certainly does.
“What’s so funny about School-to-Prison pipeline? Kindergarten Cop-Out: Tell @nwfilmcenter there’s nothing fun in cops traumatizing kids,” Laveen tweeted. “National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive ‘Kindergarten Cop.'”
That’s right — a single complaint from a Portland wine mom led to the cancellation of a film considered historically significant. We truly do live in a clown world.
Laveen went on to attack the presence of police writ large in her bizarre Twitter tirade.
“There’s nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the ‘school-to-prison’ pipeline in which African American, Latinx and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated,” she continued. “Five- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country. And this criminalizing of children increases dramatically when cops are assigned to work in schools.”
So, we’re just going to clear this up right now: the film does not show kids being handcuffed or even harmed in any real way. As we mentioned before, the entire plot of the film revolves around a cop saving them.
If you’ve seen the movie — and we recommend it if you haven’t — the film is pretty PG as far as a Schwarzenegger flick goes. Sure, there’s a part where Arnold right hooks an abusive stepfather, and there’s some gun fighting in the beginning and towards the end. But now that we think about it, we know exactly which part ticked the radical left off the most:
“Boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina.”
Featured Image by gail mrs gray
