Oft times PC bullshit goes too far

[PornoDoggy]

Originally Posted by sarettah

Bullshit.

It is revisionist.

If it was my child and the picture had the guy with the cigarette, it gives me the perfect opportunity to point out to my child that at one time in our history smoking was very popular but nowadays we mostly know better.

Framing it as "removing potential harm" from the children is no different then the shit Congress and the Moral minority put out there in the name of "it's to protect the children".

Oh, that's a lovely word - revisionist.

Right wing bobbleheads and their fellow travellers love it dearly - so dearly that they keep using it over and over and over again until people quit hearing it and it loses all meaning.

The photograph in question depicts the illustrator of a children's book. Since the only thing removed from the photo was a cigarette, absolutely nothing of any significance was changed except the fact that the illustrator was a smoker.

Where's the foul?

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

Oh, that's a lovely word - revisionist.

Right wing bobbleheads and their fellow travellers love it dearly - so dearly that they keep using it over and over and over again until people quit hearing it and it loses all meaning.

The photograph in question depicts the illustrator of a children's book. Since the only thing removed from the photo was a cigarette, absolutely nothing of any significance was changed except the fact that the illustrator was a smoker.

Where's the foul?

the foul is changing history to match present day realizations.

What really is the difference between that and removing the word "nigger" from Huckleberry Fin? I mean Huckleberry Finn is pretty much a book read by kids, not as young as the book in question, but still, it is a kid's book.

Why don't we just remove reference to all things that happened in our country that we didn't like because our kids might be harmed by the idea of it.

No matter what age you start doing it, it is revising history to match what we would like it to have been instead of what it was.