Mary Poppins has its age rating lifted
from U to PG because of 'discriminatory
language' - but have you ever spotted it?
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Paul Revoir
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
2/26/2024 11:21:52 AM
Mary Poppins has had its age rating lifted from U to PG because it contains 'discriminatory language' - but the word in question is so obscure you may have never noticed it.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) now considers the 1964 tale of Julie Andrews' magical nanny to be not suitable for children to watch alone, despite the film enchanting generations of youngsters.
The reclassification is due to the use of the word Hottentots. The dated term was historically used by Europeans to refer to the Khoekhoe, a group of nomadic herders in South Africa, but is now regarded as racially offensive.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Grackle 2/26/2024 11:27:54 AM (No. 1665600)
Strain gnats, swallow camels.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 2/26/2024 11:38:41 AM (No. 1665609)
Well, if the critics at the BBFC are so offended, why not outlaw the possession of all existing copies of the movie? What's not permitted is not permitted. There's no U.S. Constitution and its associated rights in this place. Go for it all, just the way your fellow lime squeezers did with guns.
... As if any Englishman below ago 70 would know who the Hottentots were. (The first reference to "Hottentot" I remember was in a column by William F. Buckley, from fifty or more years ago. Looked it up. Mr. Buckley's writing led me to look a lot of things up. If I hadn't learned from him then, I would have thought that the Hottentots were some Irish or British football club.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 2/26/2024 12:04:57 PM (No. 1665634)
The Knotseez at the BBFC prefer young children to mold into their agenda.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 2/26/2024 12:16:29 PM (No. 1665642)
" What makes the Hottentots so hot? What puts the ape in ape-ricot ? From "The Wizard of Oz" sung by the Cowardly Lion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 2/26/2024 12:37:22 PM (No. 1665649)
That's what I was going to mention, #4. Good job!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snakeoil 2/26/2024 12:45:39 PM (No. 1665652)
In the movie "It Happened One Night" Claudette Colbert makes a crack about Armenians. Hope it doesn't get banned because I love the movie. Former Georgia governor and senator Zell Miller opposed The Beverly Hillbillies because it depicted country folks as backward. Heck, I'm a hillbilly whose preferred musical genre is opera. I don't want people protecting me. I'm a big boy and can take it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2024 12:47:49 PM (No. 1665654)
What a crock. Typical linsane, deranged, hate-driven leftists just ACHING to be offended.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/26/2024 12:50:33 PM (No. 1665656)
My only question - - Were Hottentots hot to trot?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 2/26/2024 12:52:36 PM (No. 1665660)
The Order of the Perpetually Offended are really reaching on this one. The under-educated of today probably think "Hottentots" are a cross between Hot Pockets and Tater Tots.
What has the Perpetually Offended's panties in a twist is the Bank's family; a strong father, a loving mother and two adorable children. The movie portrays the stresses being felt in families with the emergence of the modern world; a hard-working corporate father, a socially-conscious mother involved in causes away from the home, resulting in neglected children acting out. The conflicts in goals, needs and aspirations are smoothed over and resolved by a mysterious and magical nanny. However, the nanny has a love interest in the chimney sweep that also affirms the man-woman pairing necessary for a stable society. Way too much normality going on!
Mary Poppins shows the way out of dysfunction into happiness. That is the cardinal sin of this movie, but that's too long for a protest sign. So, "Hottentots!" is the outrage selected to dirty-up "Mary Poppins" as unfit for this generation's youngsters. Our enemy is getting desperate...and that's a good sign.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 2/26/2024 1:01:21 PM (No. 1665667)
As the Hollyweird industry goes from Woke to Woke disasters, it now wants to 'harm' a real money maker. Disney and Hollywierd really need to move to NY state. They are made for each other. Both on a death spiral and both beyond hope.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/26/2024 1:02:29 PM (No. 1665669)
I have a dream.
I dream that one day we can go back to saying what we like and stop worrying about who is offended.
Well: I do that now, but so many are frightened of words. Get a life .
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/26/2024 1:05:25 PM (No. 1665671)
Hottentots true claim to fame was steatopygia, gigantic arses. Look it up.
I first remember the term from WC Fields - "There's a hottentot in the fuel supply".
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Californian 2/26/2024 1:06:54 PM (No. 1665674)
Just destroy all copies of the original and modernize it with a new plot, script, characters, and make sure there's no white people.
Anything else is racist.
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I suggest these Karens watch Blazing Saddles! I'm sure heads would explode!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
privateer 2/26/2024 1:33:53 PM (No. 1665696)
The Carins can gather and burn their copies at the foot of the statue of 'Our Birthing Person of Irremediable Grievances'.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2024 1:39:09 PM (No. 1665700)
Re #14. I guess now Ceavon Little is a white supremacist.
LOL!
Fools, and the stupid games they play.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 2/26/2024 1:40:25 PM (No. 1665702)
Excuse the typo...Cleavon Little.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/26/2024 1:54:08 PM (No. 1665714)
The mascot Black Lab of the famous 617 Dam Busters squadron was called N*****.. Named by it's first CO, Wing Commander Guy Gibson who BTW was Anglo Indian. That movie is now banned on TV.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
privateer 2/26/2024 1:55:08 PM (No. 1665715)
One false move and the Hottentot gets it! And 'Evidently an Ethiopian in the fuel supply.'
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A lot of borderline blackface in that movie, too!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 2/26/2024 3:43:01 PM (No. 1665766)
What rubbish. Apparently, the British Board of Film Classification lives on rubbish.
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Then they will have to go after The Wizard of Oz for the same reason due to the Cowardly Lion’s speech. Although I suspect they have already rated that movie for being cruel to witches.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
davew 2/26/2024 4:05:25 PM (No. 1665776)
The term "Hottentot" was invented by the Dutch and referred to the click language used by South African pygmies. To the Dutch, it sounded like gibberish. If you want to read a great work on the racist exploitation by the British, French, and Dutch toward the Hottentot people of the time, read "The Hottentot Venus". The language in Mary Poppins is appropriate for the times, but the origins are truly racist.
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Lefties destroy everything they touch. Everything.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Schnapps 2/26/2024 5:52:56 PM (No. 1665818)
#12 puts the finger (so to speak) on the main characteristic of Khoi-khoi that they had large posteriors. They were herders and planted crops - hardly a nomadic lifestyle. The four individuals in the picture are not Hottentots - more like New Guinean natives. Can't DM find a real picture?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/26/2024 7:22:49 PM (No. 1665859)
Maybe it was the "blackface" routine of the Chimney sweeps, or maybe the leftists have made up a definition for "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
pixelero 2/26/2024 8:26:40 PM (No. 1665896)
Yeah well they’re all outta their effin gourd so what else is new
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/26/2024 9:46:20 PM (No. 1665946)
It just goes to show that as screwed up as we are here in the USA, it's even worse 'Across the Pond'.
Life is just too easy for these people who live their life looking for something to be 'insulted about'. They'd be better off if they had to WORK for a living.
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