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Reply With QuoteThat republican SOB! Next he'll be accusing the other station down the line of developing new kinds of coal and invade!
This is a discussion on Thomas the Tank Engine attacked for 'conservative political ideology' within the Political Correctness Forum forums, part of the Coffee Room category; Children's favourite Thomas the Tank Engine has been attacked by a Canadian academic for its "conservative political ideology" and failure ...
Conservative Member
Children's favourite Thomas the Tank Engine has been attacked by a Canadian academic for its "conservative political ideology" and failure to adequately represent women.
Thomas the Tank Engine attacked for 'conservative political ideology' - Telegraph
Need I even describe my feeling towards this?
The Fascist
That republican SOB! Next he'll be accusing the other station down the line of developing new kinds of coal and invade!
BNP Forum Member
Is anything safe from them?
For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country.
All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal. - Enoch Powell, Rivers of Blood speech, 1968.
either do it or don't. But I got places to be
I always thought Ivor the Engine was a commie bastard.
What a load of rubbish
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
"To be honest, you think a/c jump the fence, I say the whole college jump the fence"
The wonder that is Angelcountry
"If we're going to have a police state, at least orgainise it properly!"
Guy Outside the Chilcott Enquiry as he was led away by police for causing a 'disturbance' (thanks to LA I now know his name is Michael Culver)
Chancellor
What a load of utter rubbish! A typical comment by a left-wing academic who seems to have little better to do.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised 'for the good of its victims' may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us 'for our own good' will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
Senior MP
To use a current common phrase 'She's 'avin a larf'. Paint the bloody thing pink and call it Griselda!Originally Posted by Liberal Authoritarian
Much more serious is the anti-male bias of St.Trinians. Out of 392 characters only nine are men.
Conservative Member
I would thank you for your post, if I were not more concerned about your knowledge of St.Trinian's.
Absolutely ridiculous! Once again we have another example of feminism being covertly forwarded under the pretence of genuine political science. Fubar was right in his recent thread to highlight how the liberal left endeavour to create the impression of women as oppressed and men as the oppressor!
Anti-Ascription Crusader
While most seem content to take the.... "that's real nice scientists, now where's that cure for cancer?" line, I would argue that the researcher in question has completely misunderstood her own findings. Namely that the observations she's uncovered (assuming they're correct) are far closer to the real world - and definitely closer to the world of the 1940s from which the stories originate - than any pre-conceived social ideals from which objections might arise.
Hands up those to whom this doesn't apply. Midas excepted of courseShe also objected to the way the show portrays Thomas, Percy and James slaving away for wealthy bosses like the Fat Controller..
Hands up anyone who's never had a perfectly good idea dismissed out of hand because it didn't suit someone's agenda.Any attempt to break out of this controlled hierarchy to gain individual power, show initiative or dissent is met with punishment
The bottom line is this: Life is imperfect and unfair, and you will at some point have to cope with situations exactly like the ones described above. Shielding the next generation from the realities of what awaits them in adulthood is simply adding to that unfairness by ingraining expectations that have no chance of being realised in the real world.
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