On Fox News’ Faulkner Focus, the host broke the important story that Lego toys have “gone woke.”
“Say it ain’t so. Now Leego, Lego, excuse me — Lego is going woke,” she teased. “Lego says the new characters will promote diversity and understanding. Some have anxiety issues.”
Oh, noes!
The Lego Group responded to a nation wide survey they took to come up with LEGO Friends Universe.
The LEGO Group (Opens in a new tab) conducted a nationwide survey of children ages 6 to 12 during the design process, polling the kids about their daily emotions, friendships, and toy preferences.
According to the survey, 70 percent want to see their toys represent emotions beyond “smiley or happy” in favor of more realistic expressions. In their own lives, the vast majority of kids (94 percent) said they believe it’s important to talk to someone else about big emotions, while 93 percent said they believe it’s good to have friends that are different from you and can teach you new things.
Wow, you mean kids want to do more than play with dull, monotone toys?
But to Fox News, anything that is different in any way from the past is “woke.”
Faulkner was flustered by the idea of having a diverse group of new Lego characters.
Jimmy Failla, as usual took his thoughts to the depths of humanity.
“Republicans think it is insane that they are forcing identity politics into Legos,” Failla said. “Democrats are upset they didn’t make a drag queen stripper.”
Failla must be listening to Trump Junior.
“You call this a children’s toy? What kind of set is this” he yelled.
Urrg.
“It shouldn’t be going on the way it is going on,” he said. “But the reason they force identity into toys is because they think it comes with a built-in political orientation. And that’s what they are after here.”
Faulkner longed for some Play-doh.
How has any of these new characters injected identity politics into children?
Are not disabled people Americans too? Don’t millions of Americans suffer from social anxiety? Do they think Republicans aren’t disabled or suffering from anxiety? How is that partisan?
Here are all the new characters Lego introduced.
