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This is not just wokery, this is M&S wokery! Marks and Spencer cancels Midget Gems sweets and renames them after disability campaigner said their name was 'hate speech'




Midget Gems have been rebranded 'Mini Gems' by Marks & Spencer - after a disability campaigner claimed that their name could offend those with dwarfism. Dr Erin Pritchard, a lecturer in disability and education, told supermarkets that the term midget was 'a form of hate speech'. The Liverpool Hope University academic criticised stores, as well as comedians and TV shows, for continuing to use the word. Dr Pritchard - who has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism - said: 'The word midget contributes to the prejudice that people with dwarfism experience daily. It is clear many companies are simply unaware of just how offensive the term is.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10396251/Marks-Spencers-drop-Midget-Gems-discrimination-complaints.html
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  • rabdenirorabdeniro Member Posts: 4,434
    This is getting silly, if they were called Dwarf Gems fair enough, you'll be telling me " Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues) " will be next on the list.
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,686
    rabdeniro said:

    This is getting silly, if they were called Dwarf Gems fair enough, you'll be telling me " Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues) " will be next on the list.

    Great Ray Stevens song. But Ahab the Arab was better.
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  • rabdenirorabdeniro Member Posts: 4,434
    I am a wee fat Scotsman, over the years I've suffered from weeism, fatism and jockism, I've yet to read about a campaigner saying anything about my isms,

    https://youtu.be/JtSWl2HIUZM?t=182
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