It's Nigger Sir, it's gone!

I don't want anyone to change the name---just 'ongue in cheek' remark to show how far we have gone in becoming 'a--holes' today with the pc garbage-cheers

Cmomm,

I think a great many people would agree with your comments.

Regards
Tom

 

Chris Rock did a live performance where at the end of it he described the circumstances where upon it was deemed acceptable by himself for a white man to use the "N" word. I personally don't use it as it makes me feel very uncomfortable and I also don't believe that changing the name of a dog will impact on the story.

I really don't see this as being much much different from not wanting to see people dressed up as SS. There are those out thee who don't want to see people glorifying groups like the SS for very good reasons. There are also people who don't want to see that particular word used, also for very good reasons. I don't think this is PC BS, it's more like common decency.

 

If the dog was called Honkey, would PC still kick in?

Perhaps it would if the white race had a history of slavery and abuse.

 

The fact is most of us responding to this are white or thereabouts, I suppose. As far as I am concerned everybody might be blue, orange, fuchsia, whatever colour they'd like - it doesn't affect me at all - but I accept some people would find the word unpleasant, and what's much worse, it would most certainly be misapropriated by others not as enlightened as the members of this forum for other purposes certainly not intended by the owner of the original dog. So if the dog gets a different name in the movie it won't change the story and will avoid a greater, unnecessary evil.

 

I'm amazed at how Tom Mix could have a horse named Trigger!


So am I, becuse it was Roy Rogers who had Trigger!

Steve W.

 

Just an interesting book. The Stolen Village, Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates, by Des Ekin, the O’Brien Press Dublin. A book about nicking people and taking them to North Africa and the like.

 

You're right, Tom Mix's Trigger was the dog!

 

Guess sometimes its a name that you had to live with. She was very darked skinned.

 

Saw this initially on the BBC red button service last night so thanks to Owen for posting the link to the news story here (before said news story itself disappears maybe?).

For bad or good the past, history, by it's very nature, happened, and folks should in my mind try to learn form it.

The eradication of history, grave desecration? How much more before the current generation of well meaning folks get to the book burning stage?

For me this particular instance is just a very great shame. A departed dog's name, a departed dog's grave, for heaven's sake.

And, wait for the bright spark who's idea this was to decide that it would be quite alright to sell the original gravestone to raise funds.

Shame on them.

Kind regards, always,

Jim.

 

In other news, diabetic muslims have lodged a complaint about the Ox & Bucks's choice of codewords on D-Day...

 

Word Costs City Official His Job

David Howard could have used the word ``miserly″ to describe how he administered a Washington, D.C., government fund. Instead, he chose ``niggardly,″ and it cost him his job.

 

Times change and sometimes its easy to forget how 'bad' it was in living memory.

This not a spoof it is real.. Go to 2m 24s
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That's just ludicrous and shows a complete lack of understanding of the etymology. Confusing the two is simply an indication of a low level of literacy. One would hope that the mayor of a major city would be capable of opening a dictionary and locating an entry. Apparently not.

 

There isn't a mayor of a major US city who isn't a complete mouth breathing imbecile.

 

Not that long ago they would've been called nignogs. Those mayors, that is. That word seems to have been an early victim of wilful misinterpretation. As biscuits they're nice, though.

 

Is it the intention that every single politically incorrect historical monument or fact is to be obliterated from the planet? Yes, there are a lot of historical facts that may be distasteful to people, whether they are about racism, religion or anything else, but these things were not thought of in the same way at the time, as you say, you can't change history.

 

So lets start a petition to stop the removal of Soviet monuments in former Iron curtain countries........................

 

Ah the good old days when every TV show had a coloured person called Chalky......................