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Team Edit: The below discussion has been split from The Talbots and Slavery in the Talbot Street forum as discussion had moved onto a more general discussion about racism and the BLM movement. Please also refer to the Alton Towers topic as some points related to the discussion were also made in there too.
Seems to me @Britford that you're giving this a lot more thought than any of "those violent antifa/ BLM types" ever would.
This kind of falsehood always happens whenever there are protests. Claims of "oooh now they're coming for X, Y and Z" when actually nobody ever called for them to be removed.
The number of people who have claimed to me recently that "now they want to ban Mary Poppins because of the scene with coal on his face"... it's ridiculous, and you're doing the exact same thing, imagining offence where none has been taken.
None of the current Alton Towers attractions are offensive and nobody has claimed that they are. Why act as though they have?
Think AT might genuinely get attacked by violent Antifa/BLM types?
That article does seem to make it a target and there is a lot of stuff they would blindly want destroyed... off the top of my head,
Hex - because Talbot.
ATH - colonial style theming...
SLH - depiction of idealistic black culture...because that's apparently racist?
House and Gardens - Because someone said its evil!
Katanga Canyon - because of the whole African mining thing.
Seems to me @Britford that you're giving this a lot more thought than any of "those violent antifa/ BLM types" ever would.
This kind of falsehood always happens whenever there are protests. Claims of "oooh now they're coming for X, Y and Z" when actually nobody ever called for them to be removed.
The number of people who have claimed to me recently that "now they want to ban Mary Poppins because of the scene with coal on his face"... it's ridiculous, and you're doing the exact same thing, imagining offence where none has been taken.
None of the current Alton Towers attractions are offensive and nobody has claimed that they are. Why act as though they have?
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