Ironic indeed
It appears woke people have little ability to understand the environment that a television programme was made in, let alone the dangers of trying to ban parts of the programme they find offensive.
The BBC recently baffled Dad’s Army fans by issuing a ‘‘discriminatory language’’ warning before showing the sitcom’s 1971 movie. The reason? Because, Corporal Jones mentioned the ‘‘fuzzywuzzies’’, a term used in one of the wars he had fought in.
This follows last year’s removal of episodes of the Fawlty Towers classics from the BBC’s iPlayer, because of discriminatory language.
These simply indicate that the BBC, like too many entertainment companies, is being bullied by a few loud and woke people who are judging (and sometimes depriving us of) TV programmesmade 50 years ago.
It’s time they learned that, while one can learn from history, it is counterproductive to try to block it out. This simply antagonises people andwill make any change harder to achieve.
Allan Kirk, Masterton
Show us tracing successes
It is reported that we New Zealanders have become less diligent about scanning as we enter premises. We have been assured that the scanning process stops the spread of the virus.
In fact, it is not the scanning in itself that stops the virus: it is the follow-up contact tracing facilitated by the scanning that slows the spread.
Perhaps the publicwould bemore diligent if the authorities could give us some actual case studies to demonstrate how successful the tracing and follow-up has been when comprehensive scanning was the norm.
Thismight be more convincing, and more encouraging, and help us all to be more diligent when entering premises displaying the QR code.
Arthur Davis, Waterloo
I always thought that ‘‘communism’’ as a doctrine of a political system was to exercise principles of equality at every level of a country’s governance.
So why is it that the two most powerful examples of communist countries are dictatorships in reality, with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, of China, remaining in control after their terms expired – several times?
Nik Zahariadis, Strathmore Park