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Mary Poppins film age rating raised over 'discriminatory language'
BBC ^
| 02 26 2024
| Helen Bushby
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.
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"Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term 'hottentots'.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hottentot; hottentots; marypoppins; woke; wokestupidity
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To: yesthatjallen
What discriminatory language?
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:28:11 AM PST
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yldstrk
To: yldstrk
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:28:41 AM PST
by
yldstrk
To: yesthatjallen
The revolution begins in the year zero.
Every year is the year zero.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:28:59 AM PST
by
Salman
(It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
To: yldstrk
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:30:32 AM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
To: yesthatjallen
I love it when Leftist Gooks jump the shark.
Sounds like a great time to buy another copy of the movie.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:31:19 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
To: yesthatjallen
Be A Rebel:
Buy physical copies of your favorite films and archive them away before the State decides they are all to controversial to stream or view.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:31:43 AM PST
by
The Louiswu
(Pray for Peace in the world.)
To: yesthatjallen
Good grief...
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:32:00 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: yesthatjallen
yeah because, you know, “Soot-faced chimney sweeps’ were never white people-
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:32:01 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: yesthatjallen
“A spoonful of sugar makes the fentanyl go down…”
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:32:37 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: yesthatjallen
in disney’s defense, the term “hottentot’s” is used niggardly.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:33:14 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: yesthatjallen
Nobody tell them about Blazing Saddles....
To: All
But you can and are encouraged to surgically change your kids' anatomy.
Bizarro World
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:34:02 AM PST
by
ssfromla
(All of this is to see how far they can push us and I have to tell)
To: yesthatjallen
As opposed to
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:34:21 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: teeman8r
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:35:22 AM PST
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Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: yesthatjallen
Liberals destroy all they touch.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:37:01 AM PST
by
wny
To: yesthatjallen
We live in an age of puritanical perverts.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:37:12 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: T. P. Pole
What makes a Hottentot so hot?
Who put the ape in apricot?
What have they got that I ain’t got?
To: yesthatjallen
Just change the word to Tatertots.
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posted on
02/26/2024 9:38:23 AM PST
by
dforest
To: yesthatjallen
Dick Van Dyke was a nomadic person from South Africa?
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