What
The
Actual
FUCK?

This is the NRA’s totally reasonable, super clever, and not a little bit racist response to a Nigerian train character being introduced.

Because… that character existing means…Thomas was in the KKK before? Or something?

Ok, I give up. This is disturbing as hell. pic.twitter.com/E7Yb9GSOVk

— Mike (@MaskedBrute) September 12, 2018

NRA show puts Thomas the Tank Engine in KKK hood to criticize diversity move https://t.co/OBtnQr51IR

— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 13, 2018

“… “They’ve decided that the next stop is Virtue Town,” Ms. Loesch said Friday on “Relentless,” the NRATV program that she hosts. She was responding to news that the children’s show was adding several female and international characters. …

… In the segment, Ms. Loesch, an outspoken conservative commentator, questioned the decision to add the new characters, including Nia, a train from Kenya. How, she asked, could the children’s show introduce “ethnic diversity” when its anthropomorphized characters are mostly trains?

“I’m really, really struggling to understand how in the world there isn’t any diversity in any of this,” she said, before showing a photo of several characters in Ku Klux Klan hoods in front of burning tracks.

“Fair, I get it,” she deadpanned in response to the image. “Thomas the Tank Engine has been a blight on race relations for far too long.” …”

All aboard for the #GlobalGoals! Join the @UN and @ThomasFriends on a journey towards a better world for children.#AllAboardForGlobalGoals pic.twitter.com/sxENxN2O2g

— UNICEF (@UNICEF) September 9, 2018