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Theater Renames ‘Snow White’ Because the Word ‘Dwarf’ Is Too Offensive [Seven "Friends"!]
National Review ^ | September 8, 2015 | KATHERINE TIMPF

Posted on 09/08/2015 5:53:57 PM PDT by Steelfish

Theater Renames ‘Snow White’ Because the Word ‘Dwarf’ Is Too Offensive

by KATHERINE TIMPF September 8, 2015

The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends” instead. De Monfort Hall in Leicester, England, has announced that there will be no dwarves in its Snow White Christmas pantomime because the word “dwarf” is too offensive. The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends” and feature child actors as the “friends,”

according to an article in the Leicester Mercury. Despite the fact that that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been around for approximately 9 million years, a spokeswoman for the theater insisted to the Mercury that the word “dwarf” is “generally not a word that people feel comfortable with” and that the play had to be changed.

But Warwick Davis, a dwarf actor who has appeared in movies including Harry Potter and Star Wars, told the Mercury that he’s suspicious of that explanation: “The profit margins for pantos are not very big and it’s obviously much cheaper to involve schoolchildren than it is to pay lots of professional short actors,” he said. Davis also said that, as a dwarf, he found the decision to eliminate dwarfs to be far more offensive than the word could ever be.

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1 posted on 09/08/2015 5:53:57 PM PDT by Steelfish
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But Snow “White” is A OK then..Good God this country is going down the drain. Was watching an episode of Leave It To Beaver where the Beav went to his friends birthday party and the father showed him his connection of guns..cant imagine that be allowed on TV today along with everything else


2 posted on 09/08/2015 5:55:29 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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3 posted on 09/08/2015 5:57:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Steelfish

I’m sure the kids will notice that her 7 friends are dwarfs.


4 posted on 09/08/2015 5:59:28 PM PDT by GregoTX (Cruzader)
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To: Steelfish

What are the limits of compassion?


5 posted on 09/08/2015 6:01:49 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Steelfish

The old jokes are becoming a reality. America has become a fundamentally transformed circus. We’ve even got elephants and RINOs marching in the Democrats’ wacky circus parade. Lots of clowns driving cars around with only their two rear wheels on the ground.


6 posted on 09/08/2015 6:04:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: Steelfish

An apology from congressman Hank...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjcpIg1H6k


7 posted on 09/08/2015 6:04:55 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Steelfish

Snow Colorless and the Seven Gender-Neutral Unionized Mine Workers.


8 posted on 09/08/2015 6:05:20 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Hail Obambi, our Deer Leader)
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LOL good one!


9 posted on 09/08/2015 6:06:39 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Steelfish

Snow white and the seven midgets?


10 posted on 09/08/2015 6:06:43 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: Steelfish

I’m really getting tired of this stupid game.


11 posted on 09/08/2015 6:06:50 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: rfp1234

Those are UNDOCUMENTED mine workers!


12 posted on 09/08/2015 6:08:35 PM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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To: windsorknot

It’s not a game.

L


13 posted on 09/08/2015 6:10:00 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: rfp1234

PC doesn’t lend itself to catchy titles.


14 posted on 09/08/2015 6:12:00 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Steelfish
The production will be called “Snow White and her Seven Friends”

So, does this mean that bars will now be holding "Friend Tossing" contests?

15 posted on 09/08/2015 6:12:25 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Steelfish; Slings and Arrows; MeshugeMikey; GeronL

Snow Blanc & The Seven Domestic Partners PING!


16 posted on 09/08/2015 6:12:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: beethovenfan

MIDGETS?!?!?

“Little People of America Call for Freeburg High to Lose ‘Midgets’ Mascot”

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/little-people-of-america-call-for-freeburg-high-to-lose/article_543fa54b-20b0-5ddf-bce3-913024960004.html


17 posted on 09/08/2015 6:31:05 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Steelfish

More likely they couldn't afford 7 midgets for their production.

18 posted on 09/08/2015 6:36:42 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Steelfish

You know those dwarfs owned their own business, went to work everyday, they took their work seriously and enjoyed it. They were hospitable to a stranger in need taking her into their home and giving her shelter and gainful employment all without a hint of economic or sexual impropriety.

They may have been short of stature but they were good men. We should all aspire to be dwarfs if we could be that morally tall.


19 posted on 09/08/2015 6:38:39 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Steelfish

But they’re comfortable with children working the mines?


20 posted on 09/08/2015 6:46:12 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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