Auntie isn't exactly covering herself in glory these days.
She has now decreed that the medieval plague was racist and misogynistic.
She neglects to mention that:
1 Life in medieval Europe was pretty shitty for most people
2 There were, at most, a handful of non white people living in medieval England at that time.
Why let facts get in the way of Auntie's agenda?
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A German daycare centre named after Anne Frank has been renamed to avoid upsetting children from immigrant backgrounds.
The building in Tangerhütte, Saxony-Anhalt, is to be rebranded “Weltentdecker” (Explorers of the World) to spare local children from being exposed to the thorny issue of the Shoah and the murder of six million Jews.
The daycare centre was originally named after Anne Frank, the young Dutch Jewish girl who perished in Bergen-Belsen along with her mother and sister, during the era of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the 1970s.
The call for renaming it came from parents and staff who considered Anne Frank's name too complex for young children.
They claimed the Holocaust and Anne Frank's story proved “challenging”, especially for children from immigrant backgrounds.
Centre manager Linda Schichor said: “We sought a name without political connotations.”
Now the municipal facility’s board of trustees has approved the change. And even local mayor Andreas Brohm says it is the right thing to do.
“Parents and staff desire a name that aligns more with the revised concept, a name free from global political association,” he said.
The International Auschwitz Committee has expressed its outrage.
Vice-president Christoph Heubner slammed the decision, saying: “To dismiss our history so lightly, especially during these times marked by resurging antisemitism and right-wing extremism, and to view Anne Frank's name as unsuitable in the public sphere, fills us with dread and anxiety about our nation's culture of remembrance,” he said.
Anne Frank’s diary, a global bestseller, chronicled her experiences in hiding from the occupying Germans in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944 when her family was betrayed. She died in 1945, aged 15. Her father, Otto Frank, was the family’s sole survivor.
Those that ignore their history are destined to be overwhelmed by it!
To do this in order to appease certain sections of the community is wrong, and will end in tears.
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Back in August M&S filmed their Christmas advert.
Within it there is a scene where red, white and green Christmas paper hats are on fire in the fireplace.
M&S posted an image of that on Instagram yesterday by way of generating some PR around their Christmas campaign.
Unfortunately for them they forgot that some people are utter morons, step forward the cretinous mob who decided that red and green paper hats were in fact representative of the Palestinian flag.
Factoids for the cretinous mob:
1 red and green are the traditional colours of Christmas
2 The Italian, and Hungarian flags also contain red white and green (were M&S disrespecting them too?)
The mob duly bayed for blood and M&S, foolishly, gave in and deleted their Instagram post (whilst still running the TV ad) and issued a grovelling apology.
M&S have clearly not understood the basic law of mobs; they are akin to rabid dogs, if you try to be nice to them, they will bite you!
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