Church school renames Three Little Pigs to avoid offending Muslims
In the spirit of multicultural sensitivity let's ruin a century(ies) old fairy tale to make it acceptable to people who don't find it unacceptable anyway. (It may be unacceptable to a few fanatic Islamists, but they aren't going to be in or at the play anyway.) I guess people have to quit using their brains to become culturally sensitive.
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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Lessee... other great moments in censorship: Little Red Riding Hood - in the original, there was a bottle of wine in the basket of goodies for grandmother - That bottle of wine had parents up in arms because it was "encouraging the drinking of alcohol".
Little Black Sambo, the story of the little boy who outsmarted the tigers and turned them into pancake batter, hasn't been seen in years. A couple of years back there was an outcry because a field trip to see "To Kill a Mockingbird" (a book they were studying at the time) at the Neptune theatre was cancelled due to its deemed "politcally incorrectness" Leave us not forget the ignoramus who objected to the word "niggardly" in the very politcally incorrect Merchant of Venice that offended Jews as well. Oh, can we mention the furor over the production of "Showboat" in Toronto?
People seem to go out of their way to find some way to be offended.
Older films are being 'edited' to touch up scenes that include smoking. Stores are required (here) to have tobacco products behind closed doors or otherwise hidden from public view. Might entice the youngsters, you know. Not that mysterious things that they're not supposed to even see would ever entice them or anything. Bah, humbug!
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