Re: UK gets nul points (from public) yet again

On 19/05/2025 21:02, Blueshirt wrote:

The Doctor wrote:
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In article <slrn102md71.1q5.andyl@azaal.plus.com>,
Andy Leighton  <andyl@azaal.plus.com> wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2025 12:23:45 +0100, The True Doctor <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> wrote:

 Doctor Who was never about racism,

 Yeah the Daleks were never about racism!  Sure!  I mean they
were obviously a thinly veiled metaphor for the Nazis even
in the early '60s.

 Xenophobia yes.

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The thing is, the Daleks were not proper Nazi's anyway were
they? After all, wasn't their main enemy a race of people with
blond hair and blue eyes? They were also led by a cripple in a
wheelchair... and before he came along, the Dalek leader was
usually black. That's some master race!  :-)
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If anything the Daleks were the precursors of parts of Doctor
Who fandom... they hate because they know no different. So they
end up just hating everything and wanting to destroy for no
other reason than it's what they do... and have always done.
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And then there is Talons of Weng-Chiang.

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One of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever made.
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Just because it's a Doctor Who story that wouldn't be made now
doesn't take away from that fact.

It wouldn't be made in quite the way it was then. But with a few tweaks (and
 with appropriate cultural references, and exposing the racism of the time
 rather than casually accepting it) it would be perfectly acceptable.
--
There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.