by Sarah D.
Author and CNN opinion columnist Nicole Hemmer recently wrote a piece exposing “the emerging right-wing children’s entertainment industry”:
I wrote about the emerging right-wing children's entertainment industry — and the history behind it — this week for @CNNOpinion: https://t.co/InkZ43lNUM
— Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry) April 8, 2022
Here’s how Hemmer’s piece kicks off:
“Are your children being brainwashed?”
That’s the question that greets visitors to the Tuttle Twins website, which sells libertarian children’s books. The books, written by Connor Boyack, are meant to protect children from the “socialism and woke-ism” that the website says American educational and cultural institutions are “pushing into the minds of our kids.” A cartoon on the site shows a mother wielding a Tuttle Twins shield while protecting her frightened children, absorbing the arrows of socialism, Marxism, collectivism, and “media lies.”…