This week it goes to various councils (such as Newham, Lancashire and Tower Hamlets) who have been minded to pay for some rather bizarre advice offered by Anne O'Conner (an early years consultant, I assume that means child "expert") about banning witches' black hats in school/nursery toy boxes.
Eh?
It seems that by dressing toy witches in black hats a "negative" stereotype may be being created in the minds of kids, which will lead to racism.
Well, aside from the fact that the colour black wrt clothing has nothing to do with implanting racist attitudes whatsoever, may I ask what exactly a witch is meant to wear?
Oh, that's alright, the councils have been told that too.
Pink, apparently!
Does this not mean that other sections of the community (with a penchant for pink, eg ballerinas) will be stereotyped?
No, the "experts" have a solution for that too.
Fairies, such as Tinkerbell, should now be dressed in darker colours!
Oh, and for good measure, white paper is also racist..apparently!
I think I want to die :(
ReplyDeleteCultural Marxism.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of "thinking"(sic) has ruined our country; the silly left in general and Common Purpose in particular, have a lot to answer for.
I must admit that I was always told in school that black was not actually a colour; mind you, back then, we still had an education system as opposed to the indoctrination system we have now.
I am starting to hate Nanny even more than I used to; I never thought that was possible.
What planet do these people come from? I've never heard such BS in my life! I would have expected councils and their advisors to conmcentrate on doing something about the attrociously high levels of children leaving school unable to read, write or carry out the most basic maths, instead of wasting time and money on this politically correct nonsense!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite colour is blue.
ReplyDeleteWhich is the colour these dogsbodies will be after I'm done with them.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI'm a Witch (yes, really!) and I wear black. So do all my witch-y friends. If we wore pink, we'd probably get the mick ripped out of us something chronic. We might graduate to a deep purple, or possibly a blue every now and then, but dark coloured clothes are generally the norm. I even have a black pointy witches hat (although, tbh, that is mostly for when we are Taking the Michael at "Halloween").
I'm not sure I even understand the correlation between "witches wear black" and "racism". For a start, witches aren't a "race". It's either a religion, or a belief system or a designation for a way of living, dependent on where you stand. Am I missing something here?
I knew a witch when I was at university, nice girl:)
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