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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 10/1/2025 1:33:09 PM

After almost 20 years, PBS is reviving its fan-favorite “Reading Rainbow” kids educational show—this time, with a cast of woke hosts. If you were looking for another reason to justify the defunding of PBS, now you have one. “Reading Rainbow,” trademarked by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association, first aired in 1983 to help kids continue reading through the summer to keep their minds sharp and avoid the “summer loss” phenomenon. The read-along show ran for 26 years until funding dried up in the 2000s. But on Monday, “Reading Rainbow” posted a short video announcing a new season—meeting with fanfare from

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Reply 1 - Posted by: chagrined 10/1/2025 1:48:32 PM (No. 2011262)
Mychal Threets sounds like a real winner. sarc/ FTA: "Threets is also an outspoken warrior for keeping LGBTQ+ books in schools." Considering this FTA: "Threets, who has made a career out of surrounding himself with children, is known in large part for his mental health struggles. The Guardian reports that he undergoes “anxiety, depression, PTSD and panic disorder.” Sounds like this guy might be having an inner struggle with something. I wonder what that could be? Yeah, PBS. That's where I want tax money going too. SMDH
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chumley 10/1/2025 1:57:15 PM (No. 2011264)
Even as a kid I learned that anything "rainbow" really meant black. White people were not wanted or included. Then the gays stole their symbol but the same thing applies. If some clown is pushing rainbow anything, avoid it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: privateer 10/1/2025 5:40:33 PM (No. 2011336)
These hustlers can go on and on about the 'rainbow' all they want. But it's just another route to the pot of gold.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Encore 10/1/2025 6:18:18 PM (No. 2011344)
FTA: “They [kids] want characters who are black, characters who are Asian, characters who are LGBTQI plus,” said Threets. “They want to see unhoused characters”—“unhoused” being woke speak for homeless. I guarantee no kids asked for this. Only immature adults want this and they stage and pose questions, in an underhanded manner, to children to get the responses they need. If they want to include abnormal characters such as LGBTQ, how about characters with Downs Syndrome, some in wheelchairs with MS, some with other various disorders?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: chance_232 10/1/2025 7:54:52 PM (No. 2011385)
Well..... its their money to spend now. Its not my money, so I don't care.
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