Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'

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My none too subtle take here.

The first three paragraphs from the BBC; (emphasis mine)

**Three Little Pigs ‘too offensive’ **

A story based on the *Three Little Pigs *fairy tale has been turned down by a government agency’s awards panel as the subject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic story, was rejected by judges who warned that “the use of pigs raises cultural issues”.

Becta, the government’s educational technology agency, is a leading partner in the annual Bett Award for schools.

The CD-Rom digital version of the traditional story of the three little pigs, called Three Little Cowboy Builders, is aimed at primary school children. But judges at this year’s Bett Award said that they had “concerns about the Asian [moslem] community and the use of pigs raises cultural issues”.
 
But as we all know, put a cross in urine and it’s considered art… write a story about pigs and its considered offensive.🤷
 
Those people better wake up. It’s really sad to see the Brits how they are. Once a proud, noble people with respectable traditions and a strong sense of ‘common sense’, now they are just a shadow of what they used to be.

Will any of them stand up to preserve their culture and heritage?
 
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mschrank said:
Those people better wake up. It’s really sad to see the Brits how they are. Once a proud, noble people with respectable traditions and a strong sense of ‘common sense’, now they are just a shadow of what they used to be.

Will any of them stand up to preserve their culture and heritage?
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Many of them are standing up to perserve their culture and heritage although most of them are not native Britains and the culture and heritage they are trying to perserve is not English.😛
 
While I would consider it all rather silly (I’m a Jew and we’ve been avoiding pork for about 1,500 years longer than Muslims and I’ve never been offended by the story), it’s even more funny that people see the three little pigs as some sort of cornerstone of western civilization.

If the people who have turned down the story seriously need to get a life, it’s no less true of some of their critics.
 
See Mark Steyn for yesterday.
As Martin Niemöller famously said, first they came for Piglet and I did not speak out because I was not a Disney character and, if I was, I’m more of an Eeyore. So then they came for the Three Little Pigs, and Babe, and by the time I realized my country had turned into a 24/7 Looney Tunes it was too late, because there was no Porky Pig to stammer “Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!” and bring the nightmare to an end.
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The main thrust of his article is even better
My favorite headline of the year so far comes from The Daily Mail in Britain: "Government Renames Islamic Terrorism As ‘Anti-Islamic Activity’ To Woo Muslims.
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He proposes renaming the Luftwaffer attacks on London as anti-German activity.:rolleyes:
 
mschrank said:
Will any of them stand up to preserve their culture and heritage?
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I lived in the UK for years, and I can tell you that while there are groups like the National Front (a neo-Nazi organization) and their political arm, the British National Party (BNP) which does do well in smaller local elections, the overwhelmingly vast majority of British have grown so secular and complacent that few scarcely know their cultural heritage, let alone have the fortitude to preserve it.

But let us not forget that Britain is a Protestant nation which martyred scores of our faithful Catholic brothers and sisters. Their constitution still forbids a Catholic to assume the monarchy. So, this may indeed be just deserts for Britain.
 
Greetings all.

I’d appreciate it if we’d all remember that this story isn’t about Muslims being offended, it’s about secular bureaucrats making a fuss over nothing because they’re paid to. The only thing Muslims find offensive in this is that certain people feel they have the right to be offended on their behalf.

If you read down you’ll find the report also said the story might be offensive to builders because it depicts them as always getting their work blown down.

HERE is a similar story from a few years ago but involving Jews. Again, no Jewish person actually said they found the poster offensive or thought it was deliberately anti-Jewish.
 
Yeah I am familar with the NF and BNP too. The problem is, these are racist parties with sometimes explicit (as in the case of the NF) ties to fascism.

I just don’t understand why preserving and taking pride in one’s history and heritage seems to be the exclusive territory of lager swilling, wife beater wearing neanderthals who believe that Hitler had a few good ideas. If you see what I’m saying.

Why can’t “normal” people also care about their culture? How come being proud of your history is forbidden unless your skin color is not white, and how come it seems like the only people who do care are usually racists who are for all intents and purposes crazy?
 
mschrank said:
I just don’t understand why preserving and taking pride in one’s history and heritage seems to be the exclusive territory of lager swilling, wife beater wearing neanderthals who believe that Hitler had a few good ideas. If you see what I’m saying.

Why can’t “normal” people also care about their culture? How come being proud of your history is forbidden unless your skin color is not white, and how come it seems like the only people who do care are usually racists who are for all intents and purposes crazy?
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Good questions and points. My answer is: 🤷

In the case of the UK, there has been such a backlash to the Thatcherism of the 80’s that anything that smacks of national identity (minus the kitch of having the royal guard, monarchy etc) is immediately seen as imperial, intollerant and racist. The term racism is thrown around so much over there it has pretty much lost its impact.

Ironically, this is not a middle-class or bottom-up phenomenon but is in fact pervasive. Most people don’t realize this, but Prince Charles is basically a Muslim. He is only nominally Anglican, and the population knows this. So, what kind of example is this for the rest of the population?
 
It’s just sad to see this happening to Britain. The whole European culture is just sinking. The muslims may get their world-wide caliphate without having to depend solely on terrorism.
 
Once again…as Kadaveri and Kaninchen, who are actually British, have said, it is not ‘‘the evil Muslims denying us our most cherished childhood stories’’ which apparently are the magnum opus of Western Civilisation…

It is the P.C brigade who assume that Muslims will be offended.
 
I moved to the US from the UK back in 2004 and I can say this: Muslims, Jews and Hindus really know how to pick their battles. Muslims for instance are more interested in getting schools to allow teachers to wear Niqab (the full face veil) or allowing “prayer areas” for Muslim students than such frivolous issues as a book about pigs cohabitating.

It is indeed the PC goon-squad who run rampant in the UK, using religions and ethnicities as excuses for their own agendas.
 
When I was still in Saudi Arabia. I used to wear my favorite white Swiss Military t-shirt with a big white cross to work. I did that just to drive the Saudi mad. Almost everyone in the building could see it. I could afford to do that because I had armed guard. Off work, I would never do that especially in the chop-chop square or around Riyadh.

Proud to Be An Infidel!
 
mschrank said:
Yeah I am familar with the NF and BNP too. The problem is, these are racist parties with sometimes explicit (as in the case of the NF) ties to fascism.

I just don’t understand why preserving and taking pride in one’s history and heritage seems to be the exclusive territory of lager swilling, wife beater wearing neanderthals who believe that Hitler had a few good ideas. If you see what I’m saying.

Why can’t “normal” people also care about their culture? How come being proud of your history is forbidden unless your skin color is not white, and how come it seems like the only people who do care are usually racists who are for all intents and purposes crazy?
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Can you be shocked when this is the culture being raised??

In today’s time everyone follows celebrity gossip but they can’t even figure out that Winston Churchill was a really person? WOW!!!

dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512087&in_page_id=1770

Challenge Churchill! One in four think Winnie didn’t exist (but Sherlock Holmes did)

Never, in the field of human ignorance, have so many known so little about famous Britons.

A quarter of the population think that Winston Churchill never actually existed, a survey suggests.

While a poll recently named him the greatest Briton of all time, the wartime prime minister is seen by many as a mythical figure along with the likes of Florence Nightingale and Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Historian Correlli Barnett said: “This suggests a complete lack of common sense and respect for our greatest heroes of the past.”

"Churchill and Wellington were great men, but this suggests we no longer value people of great achievement.

"It’s all about celebrities and popular culture. What it also tells us is what is going wrong in our school curriculums.

"Something must be completely lacking in our national education that people could be so ignorant as to think these people never actually existed.
 
I wasn’t referring to pop culture, I was referring to the ethnic and historical cultures of the various non-minority (i.e., white) groups.

Then again, most of us are mutts (including myself) so we don’t really have much of a sense of our culture. That lack of real culture seems to be readily filled by pop culture.

I guess for white Europeans (i.e., Heinz 57 varieties) like myself, the best we can do is try to educate ourselves on whatever shared history we might have. I think Catholicism is a decent life raft for someone wanting to escape from pop culture.
 
mschrank said:
I wasn’t referring to pop culture, I was referring to the ethnic and historical cultures of the various non-minority (i.e., white) groups.

Then again, most of us are mutts (including myself) so we don’t really have much of a sense of our culture. That lack of real culture seems to be readily filled by pop culture.

I guess for white Europeans (i.e., Heinz 57 varieties) like myself, the best we can do is try to educate ourselves on whatever shared history we might have. I think Catholicism is a decent life raft for someone wanting to escape from pop culture.
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Sorry I was trying to point out that we have become such an un-educated society that we can’t even remember what is real history. For me I love European history and can’t fathom that people would not know the basics. Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. In less than 3 generations have we already forgotten the sacrifice of the greatest generations (WWI and WWII vets)? Have we forgotten the Holocaust and what hatred does to the world? So sad……
 
Deusdonat said:
I lived in the UK for years, and I can tell you that while there are groups like the National Front (a neo-Nazi organization) and their political arm, the British National Party (BNP) which does do well in smaller local elections, the overwhelmingly vast majority of British have grown so secular and complacent that few scarcely know their cultural heritage, let alone have the fortitude to preserve it.

But let us not forget that Britain is a Protestant nation which martyred scores of our faithful Catholic brothers and sisters. Their constitution still forbids a Catholic to assume the monarchy. So, this may indeed be just deserts for Britain.
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Just a quick correction. The United Kingdom does not have a Constitution. The reason why a Catholic cannot be a monarch is because the royal house is part of the English Church, not because of the Law. It’s a tradition that began with Henry VIII.

There is nothing in English law that says that Charles couldn’t become a Catholic tomorrow. However, he would have to pass the crown to his heir, because the monarch is also the head of the Anglican communion. This is a tradition, not a law. There is no Constitution in the UK. The monarchy is outside the reach of the Parliament.

As to their just desserts, I believe that’s unkind. Catholic nations have done their fair share of persecutions, including persecuting our own. Let’s not forget the Inquisition. We did murder Joan of Arc and later canonized her. We tried to arrest a Doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila. God only knows how many more saints our Catholic anscestors murdered. Innocent III sent Crusaders into Palestine. We also murdered most of the Native American population in South America. The only survivors were those who agreed to be baptized.

The USA does everything in its power to keep Catholicism’s mouth shut. Look at the issue in Denver with Catholic Charities and in Boston. The government has deliberately tried to absorb our agencies into its secular paradigm under the rouse of equal rights for gays, when we know that our government cares not one iota about the rights of gay people or any other minority for that matter. It’s focus is on maintaining economic and military superiority and it will do whatever it takes to get the votes and the dollars that special interest groups will provide, even if it has to limit our Church’s religious freedom and WE DO HAVE A CONSTITUTION that prohibits the government from interfering in matters of religion.
 
I think one reason Britain may be failing is because the Church of England is failing (although the worldwide Anglican Communion, esp. perhaps in African and certain other places is strengthening).
 
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