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Save Us From Mary Poppins!

Who will save us from Mary Poppins, with its scenes of blackface, mocking the indigenous Hottentots, when the approved dialog should have read, “people will think we’re a bunch of Khoekhoe, the indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa.”

“Thanks to another generation of social-justice warriors, yet another bastion of racism falls,” Bill Whittle says in jest. He says there are no Hottentots to protest the use of the word Hottentot, but there are progressives, people whose lifestyle can best be summed up as “ashamed of nothing and offended by everything.”

Whittle alludes to the odd move by the British to change the film rating on Mary Poppins from its RG universal rating to “parental guidance is suggested,” 60 years after the movie was released and hundreds of years since the world “Hottentot” was in fashion. “Right Angle’s” crack team of Whittle, Scott Ott and Stephen Green share their thoughts.