steve4102 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews with soot on their faces in Disney’s “Mary Poppins” You may never see the 1964 film “Mary Poppins” on television again – now that the New York Times has labeled it racist. In a piece for the paper by Professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, criticizes one of the film’s iconic moments, when Mary Poppins joins Dick Van Dyke’s Bert to dance on a rooftop for the classic song “Step in Time.” He writes: “When the magical nanny (played by Julie Andrews) accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, her face gets covered in soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks even blacker.” Julie Andrews applying soot to her face in “Mary Poppins” (courtesy Disney) Even Times readers were skeptical about the claim. One wrote online: “I think this is a reach. She was friends with a chimney sweep. When she went out and danced with him she got soot on her face if I recall this correctly.” Another wrote: “Mary Poppins wasn’t flirting with black face! It was soot in their faces from being a chimney!!!” https://www.wnd.com/2019/02/new-york-times-mary-poppins-racist/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 It’s only racist if you’re winning the argument with a liberal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeG36 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Cultural appropriation! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Someone who wants to make something racist that is not. I find Family Guy occasionally amusing. Mort the Jew, doesn't offend me. I don't hear an outcry about that. Or, how about the AIDS song from sang by a Barbershop quartet. The song Down Syndrome Girl? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M&P15T Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 (edited) Everything is racist. Kittens are racist. Tires are racist. Phones are racist. It's all racist. Edited February 6, 2019 by M&P15T 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 What about raccoons? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie-pete Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 3 hours ago, Bish1309 said: What about raccoons? Just the back part of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 I guess MASH is racist too? Since the soot in the face joke has been a common comedy theme? Does this mean the people who are offended, assume with a good washing they will be white? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Why isn't the media outragred about the Democrat Governor of Virginia who had a blatantly racist nickname that referred to his posing in blackface next so someone dressed as a Klansman in his college yearbook? If this was a Republican governor we'd never hear the end of it and no one would even be talking about anything else. But as it is, the story is hardly even mentioned.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moshe Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 You mean the rapist that the Democrats donated to put forward their absurd party line that only Republicans behave this way? No one has the right to rape a woman. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC Tiger Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Someone saw a picture similar to this one and, even after it was explained to them what they were looking at, called it racist: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/01/28/downtown-phoenix-photo-men-soot-blackface/2683881002/ I think what REALLY offended the millenial who griped is that it was a picture of guys who actually worked for a living. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeG36 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 When I saw the above pic of coal miners, I knew what it was without even clicking the link. I'm sure we all did. This just goes to show how stupid these snowflakes are. Alexandra 0casio-Cortez for president! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 One summer in high school, we worked at a foundry warehouse, dahntahn. Sometimes, we had to cut open 80lb bags of powered graphite and dump them into 55gal drums. (no safety equipment at all. we probably should be dead by now) At the end of the day, all you could see of us was eyeballs and teeth and nips. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 One of these days, they are going to stumble across the movie Dumbo. I don't think they'll survive that one. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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