Sky News is debating whether Thomas The Tank Engine is racist and if it has enough “multi-ethnic trains" pic.twitter.com/HUsNuZwVxW— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) April 6, 2016
Sky News is debating whether Thomas The Tank Engine is racist and if it has enough “multi-ethnic trains" pic.twitter.com/HUsNuZwVxW— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) April 6, 2016
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Well, I hope so. We need a train just for us.
Segregated trains are in everybody's future.
From what I've seen of urban trains around here , they are all pretty racist, which is why I mostly avoid them.
The only version of Thomas the Tank Engine that I know is the Alec Baldwin one so it's probably homophobic as well. This despite all the caboose linking and steamy roundhouse scenes.
Chick is talking about this.
Link
Freud claimed that railroad engines were phallic symbols, but that was before the invention of vibrators. After the invention of the vibrator, there was no further need of phallic symbols....... . Maybe they could use black voices for the steam engines. The Diesel engines could be white. Those with overhead electric lines could be Asian. ....... There's quite a lot of diversity in railroad engines. How did it come to pass that you only see steam engines. If I were a Diesel engine, I'd feel slighted.
Here's my take:
It's come to this, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again:
People from both acutely partisan sides pay more attention to + work hard to sell this sort of absolute bullshit in order to deflect criticism from their positions and chronic intentions.
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Oh, puh-leeze. My son got exposed to, **among a great number of other things**, both The Teletubbies and Thomas the Tank Engine. (We still have down in our basement a tub of both on tape and DVD.)
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Hey, here's what's up next in the johnny/jenny-come-lately category:
https://newrepublic.com/article/132407/voters-angry-its-1099-economy-stupid
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Oh sweet ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I get that you'd all prefer that I've never known what I'm talking about. The problem is this: In fact, I always have.
Chickelit:
WTF? You've given out the impression that somehow the Thomas the Tank Engine series ought be intertwined with Alec Baldwin.
Are you kidding me?
Well, perhaps you don't have enough time in your life to do even minimal research anymore.
@rcommal: Here's what I was referring to: link
Aw nuts. People seeing racism everywhere. Even in ridiculous animated children's stories that are just for fun and to stimulate the children's imagination. Like the story about the boy who cried wolf and there was never a wolf. People got tired of his false claims and his hysterical grandstanding and ignored him, so that when there was a real wolf, no one came to his aid and he got eaten by the wolf....(or something like that). If people insist on finding racism in innocent everyday items, sayings, activities it just makes it easier for REAL racism to continue to exist.
The latest is an LA Times story about white doctors can't deal with or understand black patient's pain. So...what do they want. Segregated doctors offices? Blacks to black doctors...good luck with that, black doctors are like hen's teeth. Segregated schools, theaters, trains, restaurants? Because only black people can understand black people and whitey is a big ole meanie?
OK I'm good with that.
chick at ten oh four...Zing!
I'm well versed in Thomas the Tank. Is it really such a big deal to want a black engine? Also a Pakistani one would be cool.
@DBQ/
Why limit yourself? Why not also segregated drinking fountains, and bathrooms? Huzzah! Back to the Future! It's 1962 all over again! "I'm 'Free, White and 21!' " as Abbott & Costello used to say..
Yet more evidence that the Radical Marxist Progressive Collectivists (RMPC) are obsessed with trains. Trains + Race + Ridiculous Yet Punitive Accusations = RMPC orgasm.
chickelit: I knew what you were referring to, and I didn't and don't need your link (from so long ago). I responded on account of all that, including what you linked, and--more important--what I already knew, including way, way, way before f'n' 2000.
chickelit: It's amazing to me that you, and the likes of you, look down at the likes of me. That's the closest I'm gonna go to betraying you. You, on the other hand, have had -0- compunction in dismissing the likes of me and mine. My thought is this, chickelit, at the end of the day: I apologize for ever trusting you, and I forgive you for never trusting me. Let's leave all of that at that.
onward ho, and so it goes
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