Posted on 08/31/2022 5:16:29 PM PDT by xxqqzz
The Black Bitch in Linlithgow, West Lothian is named after a legend about a dog Brewers Greene King want to change name over fears it could be seen as racist They have turned to the Scottish government after council deferred planning decision Historians say the name has been associated with the town for hundreds of years
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Black Lassie, fat and sassy
She started poor, aw
But now she's rich
She's the queen
Of the doggy world
Black Lassie is a ghetto
(Sssh, don't you say it)
But I'm talking about Black Lassie
I was going to say, a bitch is a dog. 🙂
That album has been out since the mid 70’s, a little after I had left high school (aka Ice Age).
And only now, umpteen years later, do I see there are several famous women actresses on the cover.
Line #1. Lucille Ball
Line #2. Jayne Mansfield (pre-auto accident) Brigette Bardot
Line #3. Sophia Loren?
Line #4. Raquel Welch.
Nice catches!
So what is the problem?!
This is stupid. Of course it refers to a black female dog. I am pretty sure there were no people of color in Linlithgow, West Lothian, 350 years ago.
Back in 1968, on a family visit to the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, I convinced my dad we should visit another Abilene attraction: the Greyhound Hall of Fame. All of these famous greyhounds had their parents listed on their plaques: the sire and the bitch. I was both embarrassed and amused, but I was also eleven. At eleven, I learned a non-offensive use of the word.
How many black people lived in Scotland 700 years ago? That’s when the local legend began, a legend having to do with a black female greyhound. No racism, no misogyny, just a loyal dog.
If the wokelings don’t like the name of the pub, they can simply refrain from patronizing the place. Just stay out and everyone will be happier. Everyone, that is, except those miserable people who can never be happy as long as anyone disagrees with them in any trivial way.
The wokeness.
Because of cowardice. The Scots of today make me want to disavow my heritage from them.
Lol… clown world.
They don’t want to change the name because it says “bitch”
They want to change it because it says “black”
Bitch is the term for a female dog.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984
The first thing I thought of when seeing the headline was, “they named a pub after a BLACK DOG”?
I guess in some peoples minds EVERYTHING IS RACIST!
Shall we eliminate the word “black” from ALL languages?
Maybe change the name the the Nasty African-American Woman.
Or just change it to “Michelle Obama’s Place”.
I think they are mick jagger and his hand mates.
Maybe they should just rename the dog. The name from THE DAM BUSTERS might be nice.
Or maybe the cat’s name in THE RATS IN THE WALLS by Lovecraft.
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