The pretty Oxfordshire market town of Abingdon-on-Thames seems like a place you would expect to be free of the cosmopolitan middle class bullshit of PC wokery. Well, thanks to a middle class cosmopolitan university lecturer who got wind of a 'controversial' pub name, said pub is now changing its name!
Dr Erin Pritchard is a 'disability lecturer' at Liverpool Hope University, which is 180 miles away from sleepy Abingdon. As a dwarf, Dr Pritchard has made it her life's mission to hunt down 'offensive' terms that she claims are offensive to the wee folk. In 2022 she successfully managed to persuade Marks and Spencer to rename their 'midget gems' to 'mini gems', because she claimed that the word 'midget' is a form of 'hate speech'. Tesco, Morrisons, Maynards and other retailers soon followed suit, simply out of fear for not being deemed progressive enough by the cancel mob.
Dr Pritchard's X feed is basically a long list of her attempts to cleanse the English speaking world of the word 'midget'. So when she found out that there was a pub in Oxfordshire called The Midget, she swung into action and started a petition demanding that the brewery change the name. That the pub is actually named after a classic sports car that was produced in the town's former MG factory, thereby reflecting a piece of local heritage, is anathema to the frothy-mouthed lunatic from Liverpool.
Despite the fact that her online petition only garnered a somewhat paltry 1,344 signatures after ten months, the brewery caved in and the pub will be renamed The Roaring Raindrop when it reopens next month following refurbishment. The new name refers to another MG model, made famous in 1957 when it broke the land speed record driven by British racing legend Stirling Moss.
Since the news of the name change broke, angry locals have begun their own online petition in opposition to the change. This new petition garnered more than twice that of Pritchard's in just a matter of days and at the time of writing is approaching 3,000 signatures. However, it is unlikely to provoke a change of heart from Greene King, as we know only too well that the communist speech police of cosmopolitan middle class suburbia hold more sway than disgruntled local people who actually live there and use these amenities...
Following her most recent victory, we can surely now expect Pritchard to expand her campaign against Abingdon's motoring heritage by demanding that place names be changed, too. The Midget pub, for example, is located in Midget Place.
We know that the Marxist left who like to police speech are no different from the book burning Nazi socialists they claim to oppose. Dr Pritchard's own intolerance is perhaps best exemplified by the image on the front of her book about dwarfism. It is the depiction of a circus tent in flames. So, rather like the woke dwarf actor Peter Dinklage - who decried a Hollywood remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Dr Pritchard is only too happy to deprive other dwarves of employment, save that she may be offended on their behalf!
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