While we are on the subject of white and black issues ,,,

Should we be teaching our kids with a blackboard using white chalk, or a whiteboard using a black pen .?

it should be a sky-blue board with rainbow pens, silly

Sure, blacks are to blame for all the things you don't like. This site has become a hotbed of bigoted garbage, it's pathetic and you are one of the worst offenders. It's funny how most of you don't even live in Cambodia.
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Sums it up right there

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 7:26 am

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:02 pm

Yobbo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:37 pm

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:23 pm The film was shot in 1939 so frankly, I have to ask: is this an attempt to change/remove history?

History has a habit of repeating itself, specially if we can't be reminded of our mistakes!

I might have to defer to our US members for better insights on this but my take out of the movie was that the southern states had grown fat off the back of slave workers and that was the (main?) impetus for the civil war where the northern states wanted to give slaves their freedom. Hence I fail to see what the issue is with the film given the overall positive message it portrays ie that slavery was abominable and could not continue.. not withstanding the stereotypes that may be depicted.

did you see the film at all?

it portrayed the slaves as living a great happy life and the houses slaves were treated as family
totally out of proportion to the realty of things.

watch and compare it to "gone with the wind's" depiction of slavery

bit off topic, but i for one would love to **** a bird who speaks like that one at 17.30.

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:57 am I keep assuming things can't possibly get any crazier, but they do. This is, sadly, only the beginning.

Defund the Thought Police.

How about J k Rowling. A school has just had her name removed from a building that was named after her. She said on twitter that a person who menustrates is a Women and she was berated for it, apparently in some circles using the word "women" is demeaning. She has had death threats, she has been told she will be raped. The person they rejected before offering her the honour was William Wilberforce.

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:34 pm

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:57 am I keep assuming things can't possibly get any crazier, but they do. This is, sadly, only the beginning.

Defund the Thought Police.

How about J k Rowling. A school has just had her name removed from a building that was named after her. She said on twitter that a person who menustrates is a Women and she was berated for it, apparently in some circles using the word "women" is demeaning. She has had death threats, she has been told she will be raped. The person they rejected before offering her the honour was William Wilberforce.

Not quite the same, but reminds me of the time a few years back when footballer Ched Evans had his rape conviction quashed when the Court of Appeal found him not guilty. A few footballs clubs looked at employing him, all of whom were threatened. In one case I recall the Chairman of the club was told that if the club gave Evans a job, then his (the Chairman's) daughter would be raped.

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 9:34 pm

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:57 am I keep assuming things can't possibly get any crazier, but they do. This is, sadly, only the beginning.

Defund the Thought Police.

How about J k Rowling. A school has just had her name removed from a building that was named after her. She said on twitter that a person who menustrates is a Women and she was berated for it, apparently in some circles using the word "women" is demeaning. She has had death threats, she has been told she will be raped. The person they rejected before offering her the honour was William Wilberforce.

And with no further installments of the Harry Potter movies to be made, many of the cast who were made famous have turned on her.

What's wrong with keeping these now offensive movies and TV shows available to watch but simply putting some kind of disclaimer before showing them?

"This film / program is shown in it's original form. We accept that social attitudes have changed significantly since it's production, and we in no way endorse or condone the content which many viewers may find offensive".

We don't ban computer games which depict murder, mass shootings and extreme violence because we accept that people - even kids - can tell the difference between a screen and the real world.

As a gay man, we've had our fair share of terrible treatment and negative portrayals on the screen over the years, especially growing up in the UK throughout the 70's and 80's, but I wouldn't demand that anything be erased from history. It should stand as a testament to see how far we've come.

We should not be wiping the slate clean and pretending the past never happened.