That time that one preschool franchise said the racial slurp
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>>154804198It was my mistake that I should call it racial slur instead of slurp >my bad
Cut us some slack, we mature WAAAAAY slower.We didn't know the word until maybe 5th grade at most =_=..
>>154804198I love that it's at the end of the page. Imagine a parent reading this to their kid for the first time and getting blindsided by that
>>154804198Based. Thomas the tank engine was my favorite thing as a small child.
>>154804198Lol
>>154804198Wonder how much this edition gets resold for online
>>1548048107$
>>154804810Probably hundreds of dollars because it’s an old book and books can deteriorate over the years
>>154804295My 5th grade teacher read Maniac MeGee to class and didn't censor anything. 5th grade is where I also learned the word.
>>154804142Thomas the Tank Engine is the GOAT of Preschool media
>>154804198Kek, I knew what was coming and it still got me
>>154804810Not a lot, I don't imagine. It was a very popular series and this particular book had been in print for over 20 years before it was edited (first published in 1951, revised in 1972).
>>154806442He’s a nigger! he's a nigger!
>>154806545Ah, that makes sense. Nobody really cared about that word in the 50s and by the time the 60s were over it's easy to see why people didn't want to use it anymore.
>>154804198>>154804142I'm a black guy who frew up on Thomas and I find this hilarious This doesn't fuck the franchise up for me as much as SHED 17 did lmao
>>154804198That's hilarious.
>>154804198Yeah okay that's funny. Those boys don't get N word passes though.
>>154804142It's more of an ableist slur, but Gorgeous said "retarded' once in Space Goofs.https://youtu.be/fucPLTDFGBE?t=680
>>154804198Based Henry, I always knew he was the sensible engine. No train rides for the darkies.
>>154804198kek
>>154806545>I don't imagineSo your comment is absolutely worthless. You could look it up on abebooks or ebay but, no, you just want to sit here and IMAGINE things. Fucking useless piece of shit you are. Power of the internet at your finger tips and the best you can do is fucking speculate. Next time spare us all and don't even comment, you nitwit.
>>154808758"You are unreasonably angry," said the Fat Controller "about such a small matter. You could have been a useful engine and done that very thing yourself if it is so easy, but instead you get mad that others didn't. If you can't behave, I shall take away your internet."
>>154808638it used to be really common to call things retarded
>>154809216True, but I can't think of any other cartoons aimed at kids that used the word.
>>154806849>I'm a black guy who frew up on ThomasDid you at least clean him off afterward?
>>154806849>>154809316
>>154804198>black as niggersThat line kinda goes hard.
>>154804198>It was a different timeIt's actually really funny because they could've used any other black object to describe how dark the kids are, like a flock of crows or something.
>once upon a time>THE SKY BECAME BLACK AS NIGGERS
>>154810557>disgusting black creatures, get out of my sight!
>>154809244Pig City.
>>154804198Hah! Because they got covered in soot!!
>>154804142Such is the power of being made in Britain, where the ethnic landscape is completely different.
>>154810358It was changed to>as black as sootbut I get why Awdry originally chose to use "niggers", because that's specifically a black person and the boys are also people who have been turned black by the smoke. It wasn't really considered a slur in England at the time, without the historical baggage the term had in the US. It was just something people called blacks without intending any insult.
I only fight in matches i can stomp because dealing with real challenges is scary...
>>154804198Is the Driver, American? LMAO
>>154809536KEK
>>154806292I think mine did too but I can't remember if she censored it. Most likely.
>>154804295Really? My parents taught it to me when I was like three.
>>154809244Quest for Camelot, 'flame-retarded dragon'.
>>154809105I heard in the USA he isn't called the Fat Controller, because they're offended by it, on account of them being so fat and all. Is this true?
>>154811892Yeah, I guess America got away with its fair share if you search hard enoughhttps://youtu.be/nzSmtPL6Dno?si=0GiJACPxmKuyBVpy
>>154811938I'm Swedish. We called black people negros until 1992.
>>154808638Until Tropic Thunder, no one gave a shit if you said retard. I'm an autistic and I still say it like its nobodies business.
>>154804142>>154804198>Think it's going to be another "OMG they used the dreaded NEGRO word" despite that literally being what black people called themselves back in the day>It actually is just straight up niggerExpectations subverted I guess.
>>154804198>"NIGGERS could be here" Henry thought, "I've never been on this railway before. There could be NIGGERS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare engine. "I HATE NIGGERS" he thought. Sweet Dreams are Made of These reverberated his freight, making it pulsate even as the $9 coal circulated through his powerful thick furance and washed away his (merited) fear of minorities after dark. "With a train, you can go anywhere you want" he tooted to himself, out loud.
>>154806849You were great in Bullet Train, sorry about your brother.
>>154812460
>after that it got dark>>how dark>as dark as NIGGERS
>>154812356I'm Italian. Our MPs actively heckled a black MP with monkey noises, comparisons to orangutans and chimps and by throwing bananas at her as recently as 2013.
>>154813335Why wouldn't Italians greet a new MP in their native language?
>>154812545The fact that draft was not published only proves this is the darkest timeline.
>>154804198This is like those gags in Tom and Jerry when they get their faces blown up.
>>154804198>ITT: faggots snickering that a book from before the 1970s used the nigger word, in a time when "nigger" and "negro" were commonplace up until that point.
>>154810557>his soul was as dark and black as a bunch of niggers, coal black like niggers
>>154804198Fuckin saved
>>154804198What a legendary sight we are seeing!
>>154813335ik ook
>>154811904Doesn't count imo, it's not used in an insulting way.
>>154809105Boy is this some DARVO level bullshit.
>>154811916It's true. In America his name is "Sir. Toppemhat."
>>154812356Icelander here, you are like a little baby. We were reprinting Ten Little Nigger Boys up until 2007.
>>154814275Nigger always had a significantly more negative connotation than negro, and you know it.
>>154817354>doesn't know about terms like "niggerhead" or even "nigger killer">has never read stories like "A Rose for Emily" and "And Then There Were None" let alone know of the song that the latter used as the inspiration for its titleyou're ngmi
>>154804198
>>154818252I didn't say it wasn't commonly used. I said it had a significantly worse connotation.And Ten Little Niggers was made more than 100 years before >>154804198 was printed.And a Rose for Emily is about the dark and decaying culture of the South at the time. Using it as an example is like saying that nigger was perfectly acceptable word in the 90s because American History X.
>>154804198It's even funnier when you read it in the narrator's voice.
>>154818490Ringo or Carlin?
>>154818509Both, but mostly Ringo.
>>154809105I read it in his voice. Excellent job, Anon.
>>154819742lol third worlders laugh at niggers all the time you dumbass larper.
>>154819798+ ISIS a notorious non-black example, was funded by the CIA
>>154804198FPBP
>>154819859Adorable
>>154819859Doesn't look like him.
>>154818454It was certainly a little taboo by the 70s
>>154804198Is no one going to talk about this???
>>154812537Someone give this man a Gordon sticker!
>>154808758Anon, you did look the book up on ebay then since it's so important and easy to do... Right?
>>154804198No wonder people call that fandom to be deranged
