All this means is that the Thomas franchise has existed long enough to be publishing books since when that word was still in common parlance. I’m sure if you looked at anything from that era, it wouldn’t take long to find something that appears problematic through a modern lens.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None (Agatha Christie, 1939)
(75 years i.e. 1951)
I convinced a girl to watch “Battle Of Briton (1969)” with me one time. I forgot to warn her about the dog. She was shocked to say the least.
Does the Nword have the same cultural significance in the UK?
You’re thinking of Dambusters.
And it was still derogatory, but not as weaponised as the US. More like how they used the lesser N word.
wtf is the lesser N word can we just write them in quotes? It’s not like Voldemort.
Looks over shoulder
Whispers: “numpty”
Runs away
Lmao that sounds like a python library
Ooh, so close. There is a NumPy lib.
Oh god, worse than I could possible have imagined D:
Yeah this always irks me about english/the anglosphere, people act like mentioning a word is the same as directing it at someone as an insult
They still use “bugger” in the UK, which is basically the same thing but for gay people.
For years I thought “bugger” just means “to annoy” or something like that, so I would say things like “This buggers me” or “You don’t have to get so buggered about it.”
Boy am I embarrassed…
Well, there was one episode of South Park about people who annoy you…
Kind of? Like you could call a child a “little bugger” and that would just be calling them annoying rather than an arse fucker
I’ve never encountered that word used with a homophobic intent, as far as I could tell. If you wanted to express that thought in my youth, other words beginning with B would be far more common. Naturally I found them as odious then as I would now.
Doesn’t matter, the word is rooted in homophobic intent.
Okay, I need more context to this. N-word in any of these franchises feels something so far off.
Boys on a bridge threw rocks at a train, smashing windows. Next time the train made sure to cover them in soot so they were “black as n—“.
Some youths were throwing rocks at trains going under a bridge, so one of the engines purged soot from its chimney as it went under the bridge as revenge, covering the youths in sticky black stuff.
That word was unfortunately rather common in the past:
What the filter is that?
I thought vertical videos and word by word transcripts was aweful, now they add shitty filters?
Forreal, this clip is completely unwatchable. I took psychic damage ticks for every second I look at that garbage
They’ve been doing that for a while to work around copyright claims. And as someone with less than perfect hearing, I always appreciate transcripts/subtitles.
I love subtitles, just not the word-by-word ones. Give me full phrases dammit!
So, are George Carlin and Ringo Starr racists?! /s
Probably, they grew up in a time when it was harder to know better but it’s still racism when most of society does it.
