17-06-2021, 02:55 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by Percy Vere
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I really can't understand why Enid has been "cancelled" by English Heritage. Her books, on the whole, hold no literary merit whatsoever but were useful reading and teaching aids as well as being entertaining bedtime stories for the littlies.I suppose it's only a matter of time before the Woke lot find more problems with Agatha Christie and her ouvre.
17-06-2021, 02:57 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by Ripple
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Soon it will though racist to ask for black mascara ,blackboard paint ,black trousers, black anything …already to ask for black or white coffee is taboo
There was a time (when I was teaching) when it was considered racist to use the word 'blackboard' and 'chalkboard' was de rigueur. Sod that! I continued to call mine 'blackboards' and still do, and I've never been hauled up before the beak.
17-06-2021, 03:15 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by Mups
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All this silliness is just making white people more and more resentful, instead of bringing harmony.
And as others have said, all they're achieving is causing people on both sides to fall out and then creating more racism, especially where it had never occurred before.
17-06-2021, 03:33 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by JBR
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Oh, we've already had that one!There was a time (when I was teaching) when it was considered racist to use the word 'blackboard' and 'chalkboard' was de rigueur. Sod that! I continued to call mine 'blackboards' and still do, and I've never been hauled up before the beak.
17-06-2021, 03:45 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by Harbal
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My God! JBR, you are a law unto yourself.
at least until it has been banned completely and the police come round to speak to me about it, in between dealing with the occasional instance of criminal activity of course.
17-06-2021, 04:08 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by JBR
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I suppose I must be, but I'm one of those old-fashioned people who still believes in free speech...at least until it has been banned completely and the police come round to speak to me about it, in between dealing with the occasional instance of criminal activity of course.
17-06-2021, 04:24 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by JBR
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I suppose I must be, but I'm one of those old-fashioned people who still believes in free speech...at least until it has been banned completely and the police come round to speak to me about it, in between dealing with the occasional instance of criminal activity of course.
As an aside, I used to have to attend heads of faculty meetings. The official title was Academic Board. They preferred my own naming of it... Academic Boredom.
17-06-2021, 04:35 PM
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Re: Enid Blyton For the Chop.
Originally Posted by paula
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I loved Enid Blyton...I read all her famous five and secret seven books when I was at school, leave Enid alone..
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