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Mary Poppins branded racist by US academic - for 'blacking up' in iconic sweeps' rooftop scene
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Posted on 02/02/2019 6:33:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Mary Poppins branded racist by US academic - for 'blacking up' in iconic sweeps' rooftop scene
US Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner criticised the classic Mary Poppins film
The academic criticises the film in an article published in the New York Times
In one scene Mary Poppins's face is covered with soot after going up a chimney
Professor Pollack-Pelzner writes: 'Her face gets covered with soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks and gets even blacker'
By Chris Hastings for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 17:38 EST, 2 February 2019 | Updated: 20:17 EST, 2 February 2019
Dame Julie Andrews’s performance as Mary Poppins is racist, says a US academic who accuses her of ‘blacking up’ when her face is covered with soot as she dances with chimney sweeps.
The scene in which Poppins joins Dick Van Dyke’s Bert and his fellow sweeps on a rooftop for the song Step In Time is one of the best-loved moments in the 1964 Disney classic.
But writing in the New York Times under the headline ‘Mary Poppins, and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface,’ Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner attacks the scene. Not surprisingly, the film’s legions of devoted fans have reacted with disbelief.
The literature professor acknowledges that Poppins’s face is covered with soot because she has gone up the chimney with her charges, Michael and Jane Banks.
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To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
02/02/2019 6:53:32 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Sub-Driver
Explain how coal miners are racist when they finish a shift. Seriously. That's what came out of some idiot Leftist, the other day.
I'm beginning to think that all Democrats should be spayed. (Not gelded. They don't have testes.)
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posted on
02/02/2019 6:57:16 PM PST
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Sub-Driver
“some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual can believe them”
George Orwell
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posted on
02/02/2019 6:57:55 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:01:23 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Sub-Driver
The professor needs to go fly a kite.
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:01:32 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:02:41 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(Back to work for three weeks. BUILD THE WALL!)
To: 4Liberty
Ha! Don’t give the media any ideas or some jackass will get a judge to rule that camo is offensive.
To: Sub-Driver
someone actually pays this guy to teach?
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:14:07 PM PST
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: econjack
He looks like a total fruit.
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:21:13 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Sub-Driver
Soot is dirty, coal is dirty, many jobs are dirty. These whiners are so prissy clean.
To: alabama_heart
A communist brain laundry, in Oregon, naturally, is missing it's resident school fool.
He teaches Shakespeare, so is a noted expert on racism...
I mean, WHOA! Just, WHOA! Why are these people allowed out without a bike helmet and boxing gloves, as a precaution?
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:26:47 PM PST
by
jonascord
(First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
To: Sub-Driver
I actually thought this was from the Babylon Bee......
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:27:26 PM PST
by
Ben Mugged
(He who lacks the will does not need the ability.)
To: Sub-Driver
What about eye black in the NFL? Do we need to get a cease and desist order before tomorrow?
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:37:24 PM PST
by
GnuThere
To: CMSMC
"Racists"!
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:41:26 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Sub-Driver
"Racists"!
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:45:54 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Sub-Driver
Oh for gawdsakes. She blacked up with dirt and soot. She didn’t black up and start tap dancing...
This loon teaches???
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:46:06 PM PST
by
Adder
(Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
To: RedMonqey
"
"Racists"!
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:48:43 PM PST
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: Sub-Driver
The professor is suffering from mental disorder.
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:50:05 PM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
To: Sub-Driver
Interestingly, the term Professor didn’t used to mean idiot.
To: Sub-Driver
supercalifragilisticexpialiSTUPID!
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posted on
02/02/2019 7:57:52 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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