What does 'would skewer' mean?
Hello everyone. I'm a non-native English speaker. Can you please help me understand the last part of the sentence in bold type? Or make it more clear?
The people who loathed the show, up to and including the sitting President and First Lady, had become accustomed to a television landscape that was rife with families that looked like them and messages that confirmed their beliefs. The Simpsons, especially Bart, enraged them for not conforming to the usual television morality. That it was animated made it even worse. Cartoons were considered children’s programming and, in a classic case of the “Think of the children!” mentality The Simpsons would skewer later that year, Bart and Homer were derided as terrible role models who would surely lead America’s youth astray.
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” mentality This is a well known and much derided trope that is used to justify almost any harebrained scheme that anyone wants to impose on the public. It is famously (or maybe infamously) used by politicians and other do-gooders to justify their schemes. All they have to do is shout "think of the children" and no one dares oppose whatever scheme they are on about at the moment.
- ” mentality This is a well known and much derided trope that is used to justify almost any harebrained scheme that anyone wants to impose on the public.
- It is famously (or maybe infamously) used by politicians and other do-gooders to justify their schemes.
- All they have to do is shout "think of the children" and no one dares oppose whatever scheme they are on about at the moment.
- The sentence is saying that the "The Simpsons" would, later in the season/series in question, lampoon (skewer) the "think of the children" trope.
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riverbottomthe “Think of the children!” mentality
This is a well known and much derided trope that is used to justify almost any harebrained scheme that anyone wants to impose on the public. It is famously (or maybe infamously) used by politicians and other do-gooders to justify their schemes. All they have to do is shout "think of the children" and no one
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