He then tells the tale of this small Ohio town which is the last surviving Somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction,” says Rod Serling at the beginning of the show. “Tonight’s story on ‘The Twilight Zone’ is This episode of “The Twilight Zone” was based on a 1953 short storyīy an author named Jerome Bixby, so the idea of children controlling the world while adults cower is at least as old as that. “You’re a bad man! You’re a very bad man!” The offending grown-up then awaited his fate. Pointing angrily at an adult who offended him, the boy would declare: Zone” episode, the little boy - Anthony Fremont - became famous for a phrase he repeated in the show. “We demand that Trader Joe’s remove racist branding and packaging from its stores,” reads the first sentence of this 17-year-old’s petition. Let the record show that at the writing of this TV Blog on Thursday afternoon, this 2-week-old petition had only 4,283 signatures. Of this worldly teenager and mend its racist ways. Nevertheless, within days, Trader Joe’s swung into action with a bold public promise to heed the advice Reads like a piece of satire - like something you might read in The Onion. Since this TV Blog is an opinion piece, I will now give my own opinion of this petition: It Giuseppe, not Giotto) and Trader Joe San (Japanese).įor those interested in reading this petition in its entirety, it can be found here. José’s (Mexican food), Trader Ming’s (Chinese), Arabian Joe (Middle Eastern), Trader Giotto (Italian, although the Italian equivalent of “Joe” or “Joseph” is Trader Joe’s brands represented “transgressions” against other cultures.įor the record, the brands in question are (or were, since they are now to be expunged) Trader However, on Thursday, I was unable to resist reading about the Trader Joe’s story in the context of an editorial in The Wall Street Journal.Įditorial, I learned that Trader Joe’s quickly caved after a 17-year-old high-schooler in northern California launched an online petition earlier this month in which she complained that the Today’s constant outflow of stories about moral indignation over food packages, celebrity tweets and old statues tend to leave me pretty indignant myself. I first heard about it some days ago,īut decided I could not tolerate delving deeper into why Trader Joe’s had suddenly come to the realization that criticism of its ethnic-brand names was too ferocious to dismiss or ignore. Forgive me for coming late to this story. World on social media, and then demand that the world acquiesce or else.įor example, take Trader Joe’s. Today, it seems as if many adults are frightened, or at least wary, of offending the sensibilities of younger people who air their complaints about the In the show, a town of adults was held in a state of abject fear of a six-year-old boy (played by Billy Mumy, pictured above) who had the power to This evident fear of a child reminded me of a long-ago episode of “The Twilight Zone” from 1961 that was titled
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