The recent changes to Roald Dahl's books for children

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Re: The recent changes to Roald Dahl's books for children

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ProfessorDetective wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:40 am That why many differentiate: in groups and out groups.
Yeah as I said it's dumb. Often you'll see it from the kind of people who will say stuff like 'Being white means never being asked to spell your surname' and you wonder if they've ever met anyone from Poland or could even find it on a map.
hammerofglass wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:08 am Antisemitism usually comes with bonuses like conspiracy theories about being behind shifting demographics or running global finace or secretly being alien lizard people or whatever. Its not just hating Jewish people.
Eh, those tend to still be entirely about hating on Jewish people they just say alien lizard people as it attempts to disguise what they're blatantly talking about instead. It's why that one episode of Inside Job in the first series of Inside Job was so very yikes for me as my mind would keep on helpfully editing everytime they were talking about what the lizard people were up to. In a show where every conspiracy theory is true it's still beyond me why they kept that one as legit but ragged on the obviously laughable flat earthers instead as the one exception to that rule.
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stryke wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:34 am
ProfessorDetective wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:40 am That why many differentiate: in groups and out groups.
Yeah as I said it's dumb. Often you'll see it from the kind of people who will say stuff like 'Being white means never being asked to spell your surname' and you wonder if they've ever met anyone from Poland or could even find it on a map.
I'm always asked to spell my surname. Family's English as far back as we can trace (mid 1800s for definite, and it crops up before then although we've failed to draw any 100% definite links to earlier ones). It's simply not a particularly common one (I've never met anyone else with it who isn't a fairly close relative).
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Re: The recent changes to Roald Dahl's books for children

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Riedquat wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:07 pm
stryke wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:34 am
ProfessorDetective wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:40 am That why many differentiate: in groups and out groups.
Yeah as I said it's dumb. Often you'll see it from the kind of people who will say stuff like 'Being white means never being asked to spell your surname' and you wonder if they've ever met anyone from Poland or could even find it on a map.
I'm always asked to spell my surname. Family's English as far back as we can trace (mid 1800s for definite, and it crops up before then although we've failed to draw any 100% definite links to earlier ones). It's simply not a particularly common one (I've never met anyone else with it who isn't a fairly close relative).
Yeah, mine is one-to-three letter off from one of the really common ones, so the syllable break is weird and always throws the nurses and clerks off. I've thought about changing it more than once.
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