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Long slender neck wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 9:05 am
Adz wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 3:24 am My daughter just put teletubbies on and the baby is black now and the green one has got darker
Evidence? Dont think there's been any new episodes since about 2018
It was on Netflix
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The new film Blitz will certainly get the anti woke brigade frothing at the mouth.
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LPE wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:26 am The new film Blitz will certainly get the anti woke brigade frothing at the mouth.
Why?
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Assume because there's a mixed race kid in it?
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On the subject of evacuee children, I’ve got this brain itch - I’m sure there was a word other than “evacuation” that was specifically used to describe the concept of kids being homed in the country during the war, a term so closely associated with it that it was like, the name of a project in primary schools etc, and very evocative of that Lion Witch and Wardrobe idea of evacuated kids. Anyone got any idea?
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CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:25 am On the subject of evacuee children, I’ve got this brain itch - I’m sure there was a word other than “evacuation” that was specifically used to describe the concept of kids being homed in the country during the war, a term so closely associated with it that it was like, the name of a project in primary schools etc, and very evocative of that Lion Witch and Wardrobe idea of evacuated kids. Anyone got any idea?
The IWM uses the terms evacuees and evacuated, and I can't recall any other terms being used. But, at the time, it was referred to officially as Operation Pied Piper.
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Pied Piper? That must have been a comforting thought
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LPE wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:26 am The new film Blitz will certainly get the anti woke brigade frothing at the mouth.
It will get the racists frothing at the mouth, but Blitz isn't woke.

It telling the story of a mixed race kid (played by a mixed race actor) who gets lost whilst being evacuated during the blitz. There's a genuine story to be told about the existence of black people during that period of history.

What would have been woke (or an example of hyper-representation) would be to tell the story of ordinary people who were typical of the time, but just race swap the actors in a manner to suggest that current levels of racial, ethnic and religious diversity are the historic norm.
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Celtient wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 11:17 am Pied Piper? That must have been a comforting thought
They were lovin' it lovin' it lovin' it.
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Townies?
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Dunners wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:24 pm

What would have been woke (or an example of hyper-representation) would be to tell the story of ordinary people who were typical of the time, but just race swap the actors in a manner to suggest that current levels of racial, ethnic and religious diversity are the historic norm.
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I see the new Boots Christmas TV adert has been shot down in flames . Many people are now saying they will avoid Boots this Christmas . What's that old saying " Go woke ,go broke".
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Can't believe anyone still actually watches adverts, but those who revel in being offended will be glued to their tellies in the run up to Christmas I would imagine
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Walker and Sarkar having a "are we the baddies" moment.

Also, Walker appears to confirm that the leftist strategy of cancel culture does exist, despite them saying time and time again that it didn't.

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RedDwarf 1881 wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 5:19 pm I see the new Boots Christmas TV adert has been shot down in flames . Many people are now saying they will avoid Boots this Christmas . What's that old saying " Go woke ,go broke".
What's 'offended' you now snowflake?
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The boots advert is designed as rage bait, and some people have duly obliged.
The idea that the people complaining about it are reacting to something that wasn’t carefully calibrated to provoke exactly that reaction is ludicrous.
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CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 5:41 pm The boots advert is designed as rage bait, and some people have duly obliged.
The idea that the people complaining about it are reacting to something that wasn’t carefully calibrated to provoke exactly that reaction is ludicrous.
Agreed. The advertising agencies are playing a dangerous game.
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I’ve just watched the advert (on my phone whilst the football is on so couldn’t really hear what the actors were saying).

What is causing the outrage?
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The agency have cast a black actress who put herself on the radar during the King's coronation by describing the Royal family as "terribly white". It's clearly done to generate outrage, which is a strategy to ensure everyone is talking about Boots.
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Dunners wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 6:28 pm The agency have cast a black actress who put herself on the radar during the King's coronation by describing the Royal family as "terribly white". It's clearly done to generate outrage, which is a strategy to ensure everyone is talking about Boots.
Never heard of her myself but presumably she put herself ‘on the radar’ with acting roles in Bridgerton, Casualty and Hollywood films with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman?

People are strange.
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Hoover Attack wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 6:50 pm
Dunners wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 6:28 pm The agency have cast a black actress who put herself on the radar during the King's coronation by describing the Royal family as "terribly white". It's clearly done to generate outrage, which is a strategy to ensure everyone is talking about Boots.
Never heard of her myself but presumably she put herself ‘on the radar’ with acting roles in Bridgerton, Casualty and Hollywood films with Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman?

People are strange.
Well, yes, but I meant the radar of people who are willing biting on the rage bait. I doubt they'd have been fans of her body of work prior to Terribly-White-gate.
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Adjoa Andoh also starred in Dr Who (as Martha Jones’s mother)
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Dunners wrote: Sun Nov 17, 2024 6:28 pm The agency have cast a black actress who put herself on the radar during the King's coronation by describing the Royal family as "terribly white". It's clearly done to generate outrage, which is a strategy to ensure everyone is talking about Boots.
Yeah, should've put a trigger warning in.
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So it’s not so much the advert itself, just the casting?
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Yes, mainly. For the online right, she's now a target. They're also moaning that Santa is now in an interracial marriage.
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