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haele

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6. Ummm, I remember seeing people of color and disabled people

Fri Jan 31, 2025, 07:14 PM

Jan 2025

On the original. Even though the main characters were pretty much 1870's Minnesota white settler types, and there wouldn't be much more than Natives, Irish or Italian Immigrants, or "Losers and Scalawags" trying to remake their fortunes or image by heading west.

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Meygn Kelly fears Woke Little House on the Prairie Reboot. Melissa Gilbert Replies [View all] Norbert Jan 2025 OP

I think Kelly was referring to the cast. They only want to see straight, white people on their televisions. LonePirate Jan 2025 #1

Ummm, I remember seeing people of color and disabled people haele Jan 2025 #6

Good luck because many of those shows featured black people Dem4life1234 Feb 2025 #40

I agree with you. I also think those of us on the left still underestimate how much white supremacy drives Republicans. LonePirate Feb 2025 #43

We are truly in the idiocracy phase in the USA............... Lovie777 Jan 2025 #2

Obviously Meygn never watched the original. Srkdqltr Jan 2025 #3

Michael Landon was amazing thinkingagain Jan 2025 #4

Have you seen the episode Mosby Jan 2025 #9

Wisdom of Solomon & the boxer thinkingagain Jan 2025 #10

An eye opener back then. Thanks for posting. oasis Feb 2025 #37

See #22 below for a goddam celebration from an atheist to Highway to Heaven. JHB Jan 2025 #24

Well, I'll be...I thought Megyn Kelly was still in storage with the rest of the mannequins. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 2025 #5

It's her turn to get to spend a month with actual human beings. Prof. Toru Tanaka Jan 2025 #14

LOL! She's as much an attention seeker as her hero. Nt spooky3 Jan 2025 #25

Megyn plays the role of the ultimate mean leftyladyfrommo Jan 2025 #7

I so want to call her that "word". johnnyfins Jan 2025 #13

She can play grown up Nellie Oleson!! catchnrelease Jan 2025 #17

Megyn wants to see them slaughter natives and lynch black folks. Midnight Writer Jan 2025 #8

Her, Laura Ingraham, MTG and Boebert should go shoot some puppies or something. They are all sick fucks. n/t Evolve Dammit Jan 2025 #11

Megyn Kelly must not have watched that wildly anachronistic show LisaM Jan 2025 #12

Aw Megyn. boonecreek Jan 2025 #15

Fighting "Woke" sustains them Dorian Gray Jan 2025 #16

They are like parrots finding whatever term and repeating it Dem4life1234 Feb 2025 #41

So did Bonanza and High Chaparral and all those Figarosmom Jan 2025 #18

You would be amazed just how 'woke' the old westerns were. Norbert Jan 2025 #19

Yep Figarosmom Jan 2025 #20

Grandpa Walton-Will Geer VGNonly Feb 2025 #42

If reactionaries knew what "woke" really means... William Seger Jan 2025 #21

More power to MG, and to Michael Landon. JHB Jan 2025 #22

That was very good and interesting thinkingagain Jan 2025 #31

Landon died in 1991, when Newt Gingrich was still a bombastic back-bencher... JHB Feb 2025 #35

Megyn and her ilk long for an America that never existed. Crowman2009 Jan 2025 #23

She probably never even watched it. madaboutharry Jan 2025 #26

Tel me you've never seen Little House without telling me you've never seen Little House. Iggo Jan 2025 #27

Megyn 'plasticface' Kelly can eat a bag ofdicks. NoMoreRepugs Jan 2025 #28

The entire western tv show canon is about how social justice requires warriors. Simeon Salus Jan 2025 #29

Heck! So was The Andy Griffith Show "woke", before woke was cool. SleeplessinSoCal Jan 2025 #30

Lol this! Dem4life1234 Feb 2025 #39

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Isn't Meygn the same moron that lost her shit over a black mall Santa? Hitorque Feb 2025 #36

Bravo Melissa Gilbert and.... oasis Feb 2025 #38