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17-06-2021, 02:35 PM | #26 | ||
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Woke this, woke that. Do people ever get bored of being scared of their little boogeyman?
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17-06-2021, 02:39 PM | #27 | ||
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Didn't realise we had such Blyton loyalists.
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17-06-2021, 02:51 PM | #28 | |||
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Just trying to be a bit more inclusive isn't really the great crime it's pretended to be.
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17-06-2021, 02:59 PM | #29 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:04 PM | #30 | |||
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enid blyton isnt being cancelled though, they are changing the wording on some signage. I dont see that as something being cancelled or are people suggestting that once something is written, it can never be amended?
if that were the case, there would still be memorials to jimmy saville Last edited by bitontheslide; 17-06-2021 at 03:05 PM. |
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17-06-2021, 03:05 PM | #31 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:10 PM | #32 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:14 PM | #33 | |||
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It shows that a societies attitudes to right and wrong evolves over time. I'm sure the people forced to remove those signs still felt exactly the same way, and were probably talking about how they couldn't even say they didn't like the darkies and the micks anymore. The worlds gone mad
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17-06-2021, 03:17 PM | #34 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:18 PM | #35 | |||
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there is little point trying to compare Enid Blyton with Saville or the sign "no blacks or Irish"
does anyone actually know what Enid wrote that is now so offensive to the twits at EH? |
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17-06-2021, 03:22 PM | #36 | |||
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It wasn't compared though, I used them to show how societies evolve towards inclusivity, even if we go backwards a few steps every now and then, and sometimes we have to drag the mouth-breathing, knuckle-draggers along, even when they don't want to come
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17-06-2021, 03:28 PM | #37 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:29 PM | #38 | |||
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i was pointing out that adjusting signage is perfectly reasonable, nothing is ever permanent. Don't even think about cancelling my argument
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17-06-2021, 03:33 PM | #39 | |||
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Enid Blyton is known for her children's books that confront class, gender and
racial issues. In The Little Black Doll (1937) her main character, Sambo, wants to be washed white, or pink, by the rain. In her book The Three Golliwogs (1944) the main characters are called Golly, Woggie and N1gger I had the golliwog book as a child http://www.wiki.ncac.org/The_Little_...hree_Golliwogs |
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17-06-2021, 03:36 PM | #40 | ||
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"Confronting" class, gender and racial issues? Or containing class, gender and racial issues?
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17-06-2021, 03:39 PM | #41 | |||
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…it’s absolutely crazy that we cant just enjoy our racism in peace…
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17-06-2021, 03:41 PM | #42 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:44 PM | #43 | |||
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‘For everyone using the ‘don’t judge by modern standards’ line - Enid Blyton had a manuscript rejected by Macmillan in 1960 on the grounds of xenophobic content.’
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17-06-2021, 03:46 PM | #44 | |||
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That said I do love the famous five stories so they should stick around But stuff like this yeah it isn't right
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17-06-2021, 03:46 PM | #45 | |||
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But talking about racism isn't a positive because it's virtue signalling?
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17-06-2021, 03:47 PM | #46 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:49 PM | #47 | |||
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i remember those books, i thought they were removed from "service" a long, long time ago
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17-06-2021, 03:52 PM | #48 | |||
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17-06-2021, 03:57 PM | #49 | |||
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…yeah, I think that’s the amendments to the plaques, giving more complete information in terms of heritage/her legacy it gives an accurate truth which doesn’t take away anything you enjoyed or enjoy about her…
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17-06-2021, 04:08 PM | #50 | |||
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I think the plaques do not get altered. There is an app that you use when you see a plaque that gives you all the details about the person who got the plaque its that which they have altered because a man (drug-dealer and woman abuser) was killed by a police officer in the USA in a non-racist motivated incident. |
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