Day 256
Todays word HIBERNACLE a winter retreat or hiding place from which a hibernating animal might poke there nose from, before going back in!
Some of you may have seen my sarcastic FB post regarding the BBC’s upgrading of the rating of the film Flash Gordon because Ming the Merciless might be construed as being an Asian played by a Swedish actor! This is further proof of PC gone mad. Firstly anyone with a modicum of intelligence can tell the difference and secondly the actor is playing a comic book character! Not only that it is somewhat suspect that he looks “Asian” anyway! What has happened, real offence is perpetrated everyday, everywhere! In that film there are many different “species” portrayed, is it offensive to Hawks that men have wings, can fly and are called Hawkmen? I have no objection to antiquated and real offensive words and characters being erased. You could not broadcast many of the shows from 70’s, 80’s and even the 90’s today but they were different times with the prevailing attitudes of those times. you could argue that in some small way they were instrumental in helping to change attitudes? You could not show Benny Hill today but his antics, unacceptable now, are a example of how society has progressed. We always go to far with the pendulum of any trend before hopefully it settles and we behave with balance. Political Correctness in itself is a misnomer as so many things are. BBC get back in your box and leave it to us as to what is and isn’t acceptable, we are perfectly capable of deciding and if your offended by Ming don’t watch!
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