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Mr Kenzo 9:16 Fri Jul 17
Dambuster Dog name removed
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A gravestone honouring the Dambusters' dog - whose name is a racist slur - has been replaced.
The 617 Squadron's mascot, a black Labrador, died on the day of its famous "bouncing bomb" raid on German dams in 1943.
A memorial at the Dambusters' World War Two base, RAF Scampton, bearing the dog's name was removed.
The RAF said it did not want to give prominence to an offensive term that went against its ethos.
Sir Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said he was "very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history".
Kris Hendrix, campaigns manager at the RAF Museum, said the dog - which the BBC is not naming - was a "drinking buddy" for squadron members and would consume litres of beer before passing out.
He was hit by a car and killed on 16 May 1943, but his death was kept from the airmen as it was feared they might see it as a bad omen.
Mr Hendrix added: "It was such a famous dog, it was such a famous squadron and that meant the grave has been kept until today.
"The standards have changed throughout the years, while it may not have been a controversial name during the Second World War, things are very different now."
Sir Edward said he had written to the station commander of RAF Scampton about the change.
In his letter, shared with the BBC, he said: "Undoubtedly we are both more sensitive and more sensible today when it comes to the delicateness of racialist and derogatory terminology which had been used with unfortunate informality in the past.
"I am, however, very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history. The past needs to be explained, taught about, and learned from - not re-written."
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Mike Oxsaw
3:52 Mon Jul 20
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Why don't they simply re-christen Gibson's dog "Blacky McBlackface"?
The Mormons go around rechristening/baptising anything that's ever lived so can we get the dog on the list?
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Moncurs Putting Iron
2:58 Mon Jul 20
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Tomshardware
https://www.thedouglasbader.co.uk/index
My Trip Advisor review for this place, entitled: 'The perfect place to get legless' was rejected.
Some people had no sense of humour!
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Swiss.
3:59 Sun Jul 19
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DaveT
"Know a bloke called Nigel and we've always called him Nigger, still do. And he's not black btw. "
What fucking backward village do you come from? Fuck stupid country bumpkin.,
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Tomshardware
3:54 Sun Jul 19
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Douglas Bader was said to be a right cunt of a man.
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Guy Gibsons Dog
3:50 Sun Jul 19
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My little sister is adopted, Zainab was born in Somalia, Zainaib is as black as the ace of spades she was subjected to FGM (female genital mutilation) as a child, Black Lives Matter unless you are a female from a Muslim country in Africa, then they cut the girls bits off I may nave a nom de plume but I also have a little sister....cunts that did that are savages
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DaveT
1:08 Sun Jul 19
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Know a bloke called Nigel and we've always called him Nigger, still do. And he's not black btw. Never thought of it as bad and will argue with anyone who tries to stop us from saying it.
Also I suppose Sooty and Sweep will be banned now
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brundal
11:19 Sun Jul 19
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So are all the radio stations now going to stop playing rap songs with the same word in , I think not.
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Ronald_antly
2:25 Sun Jul 19
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Did Guy Gibson hate his dog, and want it to have a horrible, disadvantaged life?
I'll assume he didn't, and that when he chose the name he did it with a feeling of great affection.
In other words, the INTENT is critical.
If people really can't cope with the word, rather than remove the gravestone, perhaps the word should be replaced with the word 'NEAR'.
One for Blazing Saddles fans, there.
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joyo
4:31 Sat Jul 18
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Golden shower pissed stained Oldie... That is pretty grim to watch
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Golden Oldie
2:32 Sat Jul 18
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Genocide has never been more heroic and celebrated as it was then.
Hellstorm documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwKArlNawJE
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Mike Oxsaw
2:27 Sat Jul 18
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Is Peter Sellers still funny?
Chuck the Tree-Hugger will be royally pissed off if he can no longer laugh heartily at The Goons.
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yngwies Cat
1:55 Sat Jul 18
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Airfix never made a 1:72 scale Nigger for the Buster
Model.
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Guy Gibsons Dog
11:27 Fri Jul 17
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Mike Oxsaw 1:43 Fri Jul 17
Nigger died, I now have a new dog, she is a German Shepherd, you dont want to fuck with those dogs, lovely girl but she has a habit of chewing my arm to bits ...Lassie responds to Russian instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaBxL_Ty2ac
Not my dog but similar
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Crassus
10:23 Fri Jul 17
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Atbog
No mate - he is a big ginger bollocked bastard from Ireland
Doesn't stop me tittering when I refer to getting his sorry arse back and releashing him
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yngwies Cat
9:17 Fri Jul 17
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Ouch
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chim chim cha boo
9:16 Fri Jul 17
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It's unfair to judge Bomber Command as racist when every night they created so many black people.
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yngwies Cat
9:12 Fri Jul 17
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Bugger was always getting lost.
Not allowed to walk down the road shouting Sotty Sotty Sotty now!
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yngwies Cat
9:02 Fri Jul 17
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My old cat was called Sooty.
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Alfs
8:44 Fri Jul 17
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It is rather pathetic trying to erase racism from our history. It exists, it will always exist and our children and our children's children need to be educated about how the white man brutalised thousands upon thousands of black men and women.
By removing all signs of racism now and in the past is kind of denying it ever happened. The Germans haven't hidden from their holocaust past, in fact, they've (unwittingly) turned it into tourist attractions.
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ATBOG
8:10 Fri Jul 17
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Crassus 4:19 Fri Jul 17
Is he, you know...
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Capitol Man
5:55 Fri Jul 17
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Imagine this was generating a lot of selfies.
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