As you know by now, Netflix is under fire for bringing the Sundance-award-winning French film “Cuties” to its streaming platform, seeing how the film highly sexualizes 11-year-old girls. This, of course, has brought out defenses from media outlets like The New Yorker, which claims the “far-right” just doesn’t get it. Even Netflix itself claimed it was “deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork” that was used to promote the film, not that that stopped it from streaming it anyway. Now if you compare it to child-porn or pedophilia in any way, like Tulsi Gabbard, you’re a conspiracy theorist in an addled frenzy.
Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted earlier Saturday that he was going to look into it.
Following @netflix’s disturbing promotion of “Cuties,” I sent a letter calling on @TheJusticeDept to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography. pic.twitter.com/P7wLXixU6X
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 12, 2020
That got Daniel Drezner, a professor at the Fletcher School for international studies, thinking that Cruz wasn’t even aware that “Cuties” was a foreign film.
Ted Cruz is apparently unaware that he’s upset about a foreign film. And I wonder how many other outraged folks are clueless about that simple fact. https://t.co/4TPwyT6f0c
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 12, 2020
Drezner might have noticed the part where Cruz mentioned the distribution of the movie.
Some professor seems to be under the mistaken impression that, if child pornography is produced overseas, U.S. companies can distribute it here in the United States without facing criminal liability.
Although perhaps a popular view in the faculty lounge, that is not federal law. https://t.co/vm43OJlyWd
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 12, 2020
? drop.
— Dee Life (@DBishLife) September 12, 2020
Recommended
— Intrepid (@intrepid_17) September 12, 2020
— Sherry Hasara (@ssara5678) September 12, 2020
Owned
— Huff Croxton (@actualHuff) September 12, 2020
But but but it’s a “foreign film!” ?
— Suzi Hixon, Esq. {I ski and I know things.} (@suzihixon) September 12, 2020
Foreign film aaaaah so now it’s not kiddie porn. It’s classy because it’s foreign. Gotcha
— Pastor Publican (@PastorPublican) September 12, 2020
God bless you, Ted!❤️❤️
— bLuSouI (@BluesLov) September 12, 2020
It’s almost like Ted Cruz thinks he’s an attorney or something. Probably thinks he’s as smart as someone that went to Harvard too.
— Morior Invictus (@libertasautm0rs) September 12, 2020
Pretty sure Senator Cruz is upset about "right and wrong" — a concept disturbingly absent from both the text and the premise of "Daniel's" comment.
— Victor Kubli (@Aronoff01) September 12, 2020
Savege!!!!! ?????
— E. M. Wolb (@ericwolb) September 12, 2020
— BarB? (@Patriot11203979) September 12, 2020
— CHOP Space Force Captain (Retired) (@CivilDebater) September 12, 2020
Senator? pic.twitter.com/KjEf9AswvU
— Trumpster1960 (@KimWTNB) September 12, 2020
Would Love to see you in Supreme Court , fun times
— 2 CHRONICLES 7:14 (@gusperez2020) September 12, 2020
You, sir, will be an exemplary SCOTUS Judge. I certainly hope this will come to pass.
— Debbie Gillespie (@debgillespie53) September 12, 2020
Maybe Daniel needs investigated too?
— Mark (@GotschallMark) September 12, 2020
Someone should check his hard drive.
— Private Joker (@PrivateJoker9) September 12, 2020
Great to see our graduate level institutions have the moral compass of a sewer rat
— Jay Bys (@BysJay) September 12, 2020
This "professor" is wearing a mask so he can get away with saying something stupid
— Marc Lapin (@LapinMarc) September 12, 2020
We’re really not at all impressed with the “It’s a foreign film” card — let France have it.
Ted Cruz doesn't give a damn about child porn (or porn, or children). He and other politicians who are jumping on this ugly lie are doing it for one reason: They need ways to wink to QAnon without being too explicit. https://t.co/9G6qojLuWi
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) September 12, 2020
Before I was in the Senate, I argued numerous cases going after pedophiles, and child pornography has real victims. It destroys lives. And it is a federal felony.
Why are supposedly “mainstream” journalists going out of their way to defend child porn? https://t.co/bUB3vA7OWo
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 12, 2020
Because it won an award at Sundance?
Related:
‘Want to see a bad take?’ WaPo opinion columnist argues that criticizing blatant child sexual exploitation in Cuties is ‘a really horrible thing to do’ https://t.co/suhpLkgUEL
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 11, 2020
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