banana Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 welshbairn, Cerberus and Danger out saving society. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 As Cerebus rightly pointed out, it's a children's literature award. It is possible to both think that it's inappropriate in todays climate whilst recognising the circumstances back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 27 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: ICTJohnboy. Location: Burnley Just passing through en route for Utopia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 28 minutes ago, banana said: welshbairn, Cerberus and Danger out saving society. True. When we get together we always get our shiny helmets out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 11 hours ago, ICTJohnboy said: Nothing wrong with the Waltons, mate. In the 21st Century Grampa Walton would be a David Koresch figure leading his Branch Davidian family. Waltons mountain would have bunkers and gun towers with assualt rifles trained on the surrounding ATF and FBI laying siege to the property as John-Boy wrote and published Alt-Right / The Next Civil War materia lon his web page - I can't wait for the Sky Atlantic modern re-working that can be only days away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 11 hours ago, coprolite said: I didn't realise it was a book. Up there with the waltons and sons and daughters for making me go play outside as a kid. Ban the boring b*****ds. Neither did I! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LincolnHearts Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Racist? Where? Sign me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 The concept of not being racist wasn't invented recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Shandon Par said: The concept of not being racist wasn't invented recently. Aye, but it's more fashionable now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 When I read the thread title I thought "banana will be all over that" and sure enough the very first reply starts with him saying "Progressives". It's almost parody now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 hour ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Aye, but it's more fashionable now. Isn’t it called “being concerned about immigration” these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 minute ago, Shandon Par said: Isn’t it called “being concerned about immigration” these days? ^^^racist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: ^^^racist ^^^ Takes one to know one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 4 minutes ago, ICTJohnboy said: ^^^ Takes one to know one. I know you are, what am I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 15 minutes ago, welshbairn said: I know you are, what am I? I'm not sure what you are. Just because I currently live in England doesn't necessarily make me a racist - although if I stay here much longer I could very well turn into one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 2 hours ago, The Moonster said: When I read the thread title I thought "banana will be all over that" and sure enough the very first reply starts with him saying "Progressives". It's almost parody now. Exactly! Glad you're catching on to the insane parody that 'Progressivism' has made of itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menzel Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 For someone that goes on about pearl clutchers, banana sure is a fucking crybaby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 4 minutes ago, Menzel said: For someone that goes on about pearl clutchers, banana sure is a fucking crybaby. That PhD-ing still doing wonders for your intellect I see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 I read Gone With the Wind in school. The movie gets criticised for glamourising slavery and presenting happy slaves, but the novel is something else. African Americans are likened to monkeys, Scarlett O’Hara, after being laughed at, condemns them as “impudent black apes”, and I seem to recall at one point the characters end up smudged with soot only to laugh about looking “like darkies”. I reckon this is why there will never be any kind of remake or new adaptation of the novel. It’s pretty shocking stuff (although Margaret Mitchell herself was a patron of African American charities, I believe!). Different times, just like Ingalls. The only measure of whether these people were beyond the pale is to assess what their contemporaries thought of them (for example, Churchill was viewed as having disgusting views by many of his peers, so we can’t excuse him as a product of his times). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menzel Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 It is, you fucking crybaby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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