Who, oh who will save us all from Mary Poppins — seen here in blackface, mocking the indigenous Hottentots, when the approved dialog should have read, “people will think we’re a bunch of Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa.” There are no ‘Hottentots’ to protest the use of the word Hottentot, but there ARE Progressives, people whose lifestyle can best be summed up as “ashamed of nothing and offended by everything.” 

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Bart Lago
March 5, 2024 11:03 AM

Add the following to the PG list:
Bringing Up Father (Hotten Taters);
How Green Was My Valley (evil coal miners).

And Bill, the phrase is cor blimey or gor blimey!
It takes an Italian to correct a Brit’s English.

Daniel Cutshall
March 4, 2024 6:47 PM

Karens Rule …… for now!

Bill Thompson
March 4, 2024 5:18 PM

If I remember my Poppins correctly, it was Admiral Boom who mistook the rooftop trotters for Hottentots — and the Admiral was mentally unstable, continually fighting the last war, shooting off cannons from his roof believing it a fighting-top. Played for yuks but he was a pitiable character, really. PTSD and delusional. The comment makes perfect sense in that context: the ravings of a lunatic madman.

David Pimentel
Reply to  Bill Thompson
March 4, 2024 5:43 PM

I believe that your memory serves you well.

Paul Drallos
March 4, 2024 2:45 PM

This is similar to a scene in 101 Dalmations, when the puppies rolled themselves in soot to disguise themselves as labradors.

Davey Packer
March 4, 2024 2:27 PM

Regarding Mr Van Dyke’s p*** poor, utterly, goppingly awful attempt at a Cockney accent. As an Englishman it makes me squirm. It sets my teeth of edge. It makes fingers scraping down a blackboard sound like Mozart. I am traumatised by it, maybe even oppressed by it. I should get reparations, where do I get my money? Davey gotta get paid!

Thad Balmas
Reply to  Davey Packer
March 4, 2024 4:36 PM

LMArseO

Davey Packer
March 4, 2024 2:15 PM

The retconning of the past has been going on a while. In 2008 I was watching drama series called City of Vice, based on the Fielding brothers establishing the Bow Street runners, an early police force in 1740s London. It was quite good, but something was wrong, I couldn’t quite place what. It wasn’t the black character, there were black folk in 18th century London. For a fictionalised drama the history was pretty good overall. The show had a good cast, led by Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) and Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont) as Henry and John Fielding. Still, there was… Read more »

JOHN GIBBONS
March 4, 2024 2:02 PM

Bollocks!

Benjamin Poe
March 4, 2024 1:34 PM

I wake up in the morning and ask, “What can I be offended at?”, then hop into my EV made in part by child labor and go spend $$$ for my designer coffee which costs more than what many make in a whole day. Hottentot ….hottentot…..hottentot!

Brian Vogel
March 4, 2024 1:31 PM

Progressives to anything historical that is different from their enlightened worldview:

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Phil LeMay
Reply to  Brian Vogel
March 4, 2024 1:59 PM

It’s a Chinese spy balloon!!

Master Arm. Weapons hot. Fox 3…

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Stephen Apple
March 4, 2024 1:25 PM

It’s a shame we can’t use this as an opportunity to educate people about Hotentots- who they were, why they matter, and the entire fallacy of a thing called apartheid. You see, Hotentots were the REAL and ONLY indigenous tribes of South Africa prior to white men coming there. A mulatto skinned people. Nobody knows what happened to them. Perhaps they just wandered away when too many people showed up? It is rumored that they were euthanized by some of the tribes from the north (perhaps Zulu’s) who came down to join the gold mines. And that’s where apartheid gets… Read more »