Truer words never spoken...
Posted on 02/26/2024 9:26:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Mary Poppins, the classic film starring Julie Andrews, has had its age rating raised by British film censors because it features "discriminatory language".
The 1964 film has been reclassified from a U, which stands for universal, to a PG, for parental guidance.
In it, a derogatory term originally used by white Europeans about nomadic peoples in southern Africa is used to refer to soot-faced chimney-sweeps.
That now "exceeds our guidelines" for U films, the BBFC said.
The film is set in London in 1910 and follows a magical nanny, played by Dame Julie, who looks after a family's children with the help of Bert, a busking chimney-sweep played by Dick Van Dyke.
SNIP
"Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term 'hottentots'.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Courage...
Courage ...
Truer words never spoken...
Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke are both still alive. Shouldn’t they be arrested for participating in a hate crime?
(Just kidding. But that’s the direction the United States is heading. The UK is just a few steps ahead of us.)
8 seconds ...
Mary Poppins was my first ever movie theatre experience at five years old.
They want to sexualize prepubescent kids. Kill tgem in utero and just after, but they want to keep tgem from learning about past culture
For what? If they think kids can discern their own sexual identity for the first time in multi millennial history, they think they can’t discern cultural errors
These people are so illogical
I suggest collecting books and movies before they Hitler burn everything
Well, I for one am pleased Great Britain has gotten their house in order to the.point that this all they have to worry about.
Next up, condemning the exploitation of monkeys and little people in the 85 year old movie The Wizard of Oz! SMH
“What makes the Hottentots so hot? Who put the Ape in Aprocots?
Whadda they got that I ain’t got?
COURAGE!
You can say that again!”
“Nobody tell them about Blazing Saddles....”
You haven’t watched it online lately, have you?
Hottentot is an actual name of a group of Africans
Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious is raciss!
So when do I get my reparations for being called a Cracker devil my whole life?
"I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith..."
-PJ
Mary Poppins was my first ever movie theatre experience
FFS.
I went to UT with Berke Breathed - always loved “The Academia Waltz” strip.
Ok... Let’s get stupid...
I am no longer “White”. I am Gaelic/Scandinavian/Caucasian-American. Calling me “White” denigrates my ancestry.
A spoonful of fentanyl makes the sociaism go down.
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