And so it seems that Mr Know-It-All Stephen Fry, a Lance Corporal in the PC Brigade, has decided to CENSOR history with his script for the new Dam Busters film!
Despite ringleader Guy Gibson clearly calling his dog Nigger, Fry has the temerity to suggest the word is somehow offensive to some people and calls it Digger instead!
Despite ringleader Guy Gibson clearly calling his dog Nigger, Fry has the temerity to suggest the word is somehow offensive to some people and calls it Digger instead!
This completely changes history, the point of the story and essentially renders the film unwatchable.
Well, as far as I’m concerned it’s time to man the barricades against this lunacy, and where better to find soldiers at arms than the Lincolnshire Echo?!
merlinbus marks himself out from the start with a pithy roundup of the intellectual thesis underlying our argument.
merlinbus marks himself out from the start with a pithy roundup of the intellectual thesis underlying our argument.
“Better not watch Training Day then. Funny how it`s OK to use n****r repeatedly in American fiction films, but when it comes to the TRUE history of once Great Britain, it is taboo. No wonder the country is in such a state. Political correctness gone mad.”Not just gone mad, but wearing its pants on its head and signing away its fortune to a cats home.
It's all so unfair, especially when Jackie Chan's up to it, and he's foreign and he doesn't mind. It's the second time this week I've wondered "What Would Jackie Chan Do?" Anyway, a quick history lesson from by ReadingImp:
Exactly, the word's never been racist. Meanwhile, mrscf weighs in with:"It wasn't seen as a racist name back then and shouldn't be now as you see many American films with everyone saying wus up me ****** etc and nobody is offended, I watched rush hour the other night and even Jackie Chan said it in that film, but if it comes from a British person its automatically seen as racist."
Exactly- use the name or don’t even bother putting pen to paper. What’s that you say HawkEye001?“How pathetic altering the dogs name,call the dog by it`s real name "******" or don`t even bother to mention it at all.”
People, we are tearing ourselves apart here! Stop blaming Fry and take a stand!“Mr Fry you are a disgrace to the memory of the British Heritage.”
Now, now redarmy, I see the sense it fighting fire with fire, but if we do that we’ll be no better than them. Does anybody else have any suggestions?“So it's ok for us to be called honkeys or whitey and cracker yet you cannot do a historical film. ****** was the dogs name, fact. Who cares what the Americans think anyway. Lets do a film in Britain about the American Revolutionary War, only this time lets change a few of the facts so we make it so we win.” redarmy102
Passive resistance. Clever. Any more for any more?“I have a copy of The Dambusters film naming Guy Gibson's dog "******" and I will continue to watch it occasionally. I have no wish to see an American version with factual inaccuracies and with American accents or whatever they intend to use.” Nodroggy
Captain, tricksy but ultimately futile. Despite your best efforts, I believe people may eventually discern meaning in your words.“Consider that WW2 was heavily concerned with preventing a certain gentleman from removing our freedom to do things our way and that the gentleman in question had a number of names and phrases for people of different colour to himself (notice how I have not mentioned his name, in case it offends).” Captain_Blue
You’re not going soft on us are you Nicky? Are you saying that we shouldn’t make historical war films? Or that it’s as satisfying to see Germans being bombed into oblivion as it is to enjoy a racial “shortcut”?!“So Mr Fry and the producers of this film don't want to upset certain yanks and coloured people by using the correct name for guy gibsons dog. If these people are so concerned for the feelings of others what about the feelings of the German people who once again will be seeing a film made (that didn't have to be made) that gloriously shows the men of the RAF destroying the mohne and the eder dams and all the people that died in the aftermath of this raid. Have the writer and producers thought what the german people feel about the remake of this film,i very much doubt it. So i suppose it doesn't matter that you upset the germans just so long as you don't upset the black population of the earth.” nickythenark
I suggest we all go home and reacquaint ourselves with a non-PC version of the Dam Busters before we go any further- I recommend the 1972 remake starring Sid James and Lew Collins since it’s only 45 minutes long without the adverts.
Til later then- keep it real, me N*****s!
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