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Politically correct parents ditch 'offensive' traditional fairy tales
dailymail.co.uk ^ | January 6, 2009 | Claire Ellicott

Posted on 01/08/2009 8:22:08 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Free ThinkerNY
And as these children that are never exposed to “dark thoughts” grow up in la-la land and face real adversity they are going to be clueless in dealing with it.

Or in short, wards of the state.

21 posted on 01/08/2009 10:27:09 PM PST by DB
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To: Free ThinkerNY

hell... couldn’t they wait until jan 20?

be ready, the clinton years of pc garbage is coming back (they already cue’d up homo’s in the military for one of their first plays)


22 posted on 01/08/2009 11:10:52 PM PST by sten
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To: GatorGirl

And a “Happy zippidy doodah to you, today.”

Great movie and music. Now wonder the leftists don’t like it.

Rap is “crap” without the “c”.


23 posted on 01/09/2009 12:00:51 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Alkhin
THIS from the country that gave us JRR Tolkien who highly prized fairy tales.
And I started reading his books when I was in the 3rd grade ("The Hobbit").. I've read it at least 5 times up until now. I advanced to "The Lord of the Rings" by the 5th grade. I've read the 'Trilogy' (there were actually 4 books, last one was sort of an appendix for the whole story) at least 10 times now.. and am reading it again every night before I sleep (on the 2 Towers, about halfway through)... But he made great fiction stories... MUCH deeper than Grimm and too complex for most kids. BUT, he had me interested quickly. The fairy tales spoken about here are to teach moral values in a simple way (life in general); and Tolkien just gave the same values in black and white in a much deeper analogy. PC is for pussies that can't handle someone who has moral values.
24 posted on 01/09/2009 2:06:52 AM PST by Bikkuri
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To: IrishPennant
Mom??? What the heck is with the new age fairy tale stuff. Gimme Hans Christian Andersen or some of them Grimm Brothers, for Chrissake.
Agreed 100%!!!
25 posted on 01/09/2009 2:08:05 AM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Nowhere Man
How about "Uncle Remus?" Please, don't throw me into the briar patch! B-)
Briar Rabbit was my favorite... had the book when I was MUCH younger..
26 posted on 01/09/2009 2:10:58 AM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Peacekeeper357
The movie was called ‘Song of the South’
Had never seen it until I came to Japan.. Had to do a crudload of torrent searches to find it. Finally was able to DL it and watch it for the first time about a year ago... What is wrong with a does of good natured history?! :0
27 posted on 01/09/2009 2:13:14 AM PST by Bikkuri
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To: Nowhere Man

How about “Uncle Remus?”

He will now be called Uncle Obama.


28 posted on 01/09/2009 3:02:15 AM PST by bikerman
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To: Bikkuri

Grimm stories are my favorite. Make sure to buy a book that has the original unedited stories though...


29 posted on 01/09/2009 5:04:38 AM PST by FreeManWhoCan (An American in Miami)
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To: tet68

Those old fairy tales taught good life lessons and morals. I guess that’s why the ‘modern’ parents consider them ‘offensive’.


30 posted on 01/09/2009 7:58:30 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Cementjungle

Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was black as soot
and everywhere that Mary went
Its sooty foot he put


31 posted on 01/09/2009 8:02:09 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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