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Subject: Cultural insensitivity
capitalist72    2/7/2004 9:58:52 PM
I, too, was offended as a child by the tale of the 3 little pigs. It always amazes me how kids in the west are all subject to this not-so-subtle bias. http://www.thewilmslowexpress.co.uk/barlowsbrief/index/articles/article_id=2836.html No sanctuary for the Three Little Pigs Email this page to a friend Did you have a golliwog when you were a child? We had one at our school; I loved it. Unfortunately so did all the other kids - consequently I hardly ever got near it. We used to sing 'Bah-bah black sheep have you any wool?' it was a playground favourite. Occasionally, if she was in a good mood, our teacher would allow us to draw pictures on the blackboard. All in all we had a pretty good time. Little did we realise that we were all a bunch of racists espousing the doctrine of Aryan superiority? One of my best pals was an Indian lad; considering the amount of time he spent around our house you would have thought he could have told me. Maybe we were just too busy playing conkers, swapping marbles and making catapults for him to mention it? I doubt when the West Indian kids in our class were huffing and puffing along with the rest of us at the Three Little Pigs they ever suspected they were taking part in an attempt to undermine the entire Muslim faith. For a class of 30 the task ultimately proved too great but had we succeeded we could have changed the face of the world. Of course the divisive 'blackboard' has long since been replaced by the innocuous 'chalkboard' and children must now question 'white sheep' equally on the availability of wool. Currently there is a move afoot to ban the Three Little Pigs from schools and the much beloved 'golliwog' is to be expunged from our history. A good thing too if you ask me. Most of my pals were totally oblivious of colour, creed or religion. All they cared about was how good you were at football and who could build the best den. When they should have been debating the role of ethnic minorities in a multicultural society they were actually encouraging anyone with a water-pistol to join our gang. Instead of filtering our language, monitoring our play and censoring our reading material we were all cheering shamelessly for the Three Little Pigs with little thought for the damage we were inflicting upon the world of Islam. With all the political correctness surrounding them today these children no longer risk being effortlessly assimilated into a gang of scallywags such as ours. Thanks to headteachers, politicians and sociologists innocent little kids from ethnic backgrounds now stick out like a sore thumb. Golly would turn in his grave.
 
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Ashley-the-man    RE:Cultural insensitivity- Fear the memes.. usually   2/8/2004 9:37:44 PM
Maybe they are thinking of an alternate version of the three little where instead of eating them, the wolf gets to "know" them.
 
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Basher    RE:Cultural insensitivity   2/9/2004 5:41:49 AM
The author speaks as if abolishing Earth's Islam would be in some way a bad thing...
 
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Basher    Final Historian, the pigs and wolf:   2/9/2004 5:45:26 AM
Some years ago, my mother was once attempting to go back into teaching and was told that that specific story was already banned for the pigs being pink and the wolf being black... In those days though, the muslim lobby was less powerful than it is now, so naturally anything that irritates the muslims must NOW be the worst possible crime..
 
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Basher    The golliwog   2/9/2004 5:50:15 AM
In the toy museum it said that after 1900 the golliwog was no longer intended as an insult against black people, but they were still manufactured for a long while afterwards. They actually look nothing like african men, even given that they are dolls. I actually used to have one somewhere. I could show it to you if you like..
 
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SGTObvious    Insensitivity   2/9/2004 7:00:47 AM
Personally, I've come to realize the whole 3 little pigs thing is very insensitive- to wolves. Wolves exhibit a full range of human-like emotions and demonstrate loyalty, love of family, and clever combat tactics. Why they should end up as the "bad guy" in a story, when all the poor wolf was trying to do was obtain a roast pork dinner, is beyond me. Anti-Wolf Bias.
 
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Panther    RE:Insensitivity   2/9/2004 7:50:29 AM
What about Mark Twain, is some of his classics still banned from U.S. school rooms for culturally terrorizing children's imaginations, by showing how fun playing outdoors can be?
 
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American Kafir    RE:Insensitivity   2/9/2004 9:36:22 AM
I don't see the anti-wolf bias, other than the wolf's obvious allegorical symbol as a Palestinian, who huffs and puffs but can't blow down the little Jewish pigs brand new brick security wall. Then there's the pigs swearing by the hairs of their chinny chin chins, instead of the moon, like the Muslim wolf does. The wolf is portrayed as not wanting to kill or eat the pigs, just destroy their homes and drive them away. But the pigs run to live with their swine brethen who construct more secure domiciles. This is an insult to all jihadis who wish to kill pigs. Muslims are highly cognizant of symbols, and this Zionist imagery is far too overt.
 
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ArrowGuns    RE:Insensitivity   2/10/2004 1:17:42 AM
I always felt sad for the wolf (honestly)! But, forgive my ignorance and if someone can answer these innocent questions: What do Moslems have against pigs? How is the story racist?
 
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American Kafir    RE:Insensitivity   2/10/2004 9:02:55 AM
>>I always felt sad for the wolf (honestly)! But, forgive my ignorance and if someone can answer these innocent questions:<< "What do Moslems have against pigs?" Sahih Bukhari Volume 7, Book 69, Number 494v: Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari: "that he heard the Prophet saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection." and "The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until the Moslems make war against the Jews and kill them, and until a Jew hiding behind a rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: 'Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'" (Sahih Bukhari 004.52.176) Islamic tradition holds that Allah transforms Jews and Christians who defy Islam into monkeys and pigs. "How is the story racist?" Because, obviously, true Muslims are the master race.... Sahih Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 80: Narrated Abu Huraira: "The Verse:--"You (true Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind." means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam."
 
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sentinel28a    WOLF RIGHTS!   2/10/2004 4:21:25 PM
Clearly, the wolf is indeed being discriminated against. The Big "Bad" Wolf only trying to gain shelter and a warm dinner. And he's shamefully excluded from it by three pigs. Little Red Riding Hood is also a perpetrator of this terrible anti-wolf racism... Nah, I just can't get behind the wolf on this one. He ate Grandma, for heaven's sake. That's not the action of a sane wolf. Everyone knows he could've taken out Riding Hood anywhere on the road, but instead he terrorizes her by doing in Grandma. He was just one sick wolf puppy. Personally, I think Hamas identifies with the Warner Brothers version of Big Bad. Y'know, "if I can't blow it down I'll blow it up"?
 
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