Quote Originally Posted by MarcusCole View Post
I really don't have a problem with the renaming of a Dog. It's not a major character and the name is offensive to a large number of people.

Most people don't care about the Dog anyway and if the name wasn't in the original film they wouldn't have know it anyway.
Grauniad (https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...broadcasting):
The film, based on a real-life story, relies heavily on wing commander Gibson's dog as a plot device.
The faithful pet is run over in the middle of the film, and his name becomes a codeword for the bombers' prime target.
Viewers of the edited version complained that the dialogue was clipped, with key exchanges left out of the film.
The issue isn't as simple as renaming a dog. Some future generation will believe that Trigger was a black man renamed in Only Fools and Horses.

More seriously we live in an age where misinformation and ignorance rules. By doctoring the past the Russians have whitewashed their role in WWII, and previously. Indonesians have no idea of the corruption that allowed them to take over the Western half of Papua. Bad actors are made good, and good actors bad according to whoever is in power at the time. Trump lives on misinformation, as does Putin and others. If we want to re-write history to suit current sensitivities then it all can be re-written again in some different way two generations down the line and our own real history will become fiction. Let's learn nothing for as Churchill said “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

Explain history, understand history, but going on to eradicate or misrepresent history is not going to end well.

Let's have a poll on the next word or phrase commonly in acceptable use that will become banned and will I ever allowed to be happy and gay again?