Oh lordy, will all this wokery never end?
The BBFC has become the latest organisation to wet the bed and fall over itself in a pathetic effort to appease professional offence takers. What’s it done then? Taken a stand against orgies of violence and sex on screen? Er, no. The BBFC has (wait for it) decided that its certification for the 1964 classic ‘Mary Poppins’ must be revised from ‘U’ to ‘PG’, because of *gasp* two uses of ‘racially discriminatory’ language.
I’m sure the matter is scorched into the psyche of cunters everywhere. I well remember swooning with shock as I watched the scene where the sweeps dance on the rooftop. From nearby, the batty character ‘Admiral Boom’ yells ‘we’re being attacked by Hottentots!’ before firing fireworks at them. ‘Hottentots’, as I’m sure every shocked viewer is aware, has been added to the ever-increasing list of words deemed offensive by some busybody or other.
But why stop there? After all, the chimney sweeps were ‘blacked up’. Disney should be censured for this inflammatory imagery. And what about Dick van Dyke’s insult
to native Londoners with his disgraceful racist mockery of their accent? I’m grossly offended by this crude and shameful caricature. Should he apologise? ‘Indoobitubly, Bary Boppins’.
Oh dear. I’m so overcome that I think I’ve peed my pants.
Nominated by Ron Knee with a second dose of sugar/shit on a spoon from Chuff Chugger below.
I second this on the basis only the very active ‘woke’ community who actively go out their way to look for this sort of thing would know what that word meant. I mean, I am a 60 year old bloke and never heard of it….and took no notice of it either when i would have been of the age group it was intended for when I first saw the film. when you are 8 years old so so there are a lot of words you don’t know the meaning of, but it didn’t detract from the enjoyment of the film and neither did I instantly become a racist because of some of those words.
I am very much looking forward to several traditional plays from Shakespeare being censored or ‘revised’ in due course due to the use of now defunct words.
I must also add, whilst watching that episode of top gear where they built a bridge over the river kwai? and used the word ‘slope’, I had never heard of that as a derogatory term to our slitty eyed friends, and I only became aware of its meaning in the context they subliminally meant AFTER they were told to apologise. and I don’t think I’m that uneducated.
Capital I Chuff Chugger capital I C.A.
