Milei is Admiral Boom from Mary Poppins. There, she is crazy, on a building that she has converted into a sailing boat. He has prohibited inclusive language instead of that which excludes: that of the Argentine leader himself, that of his insults, not suitable for all audiences. “The letter e, the at sign, the x cannot be used, and the unnecessary inclusion of the feminine in all public administration documents will be avoided,” announced Manuel Adorni, her spokesperson, her Mr. Bitácora.
The statement has entertained on the networks. “Banning is the opposite of ‘long live fucking freedom,’” says @Rayko66666. “Individuals have freedom, not the Administration,” she replies @pabloharour.
There is debate, but with all the imbroglios that Argentina has on the table, Milei shoots the same fireworks with cannon shots as the sailor in the film. She may be in favor of inclusive language or not, but, as @snwrd_rbr points out, “with that she has solved a total of zero problems, but long live freedom and I don’t know what…”.
This is the same number of problems that the British Board of Film Classification has solved by removing the general public label from Mary Poppins. The reason? That contains “discriminatory language.” A word that is repeated twice is enough: Hottentot.
The admiral says it when he gets upset with the chimney sweeps dancing on the roof under the gaze of Poppins, with their faces dirty with soot, and he launches the cannon shot of fireworks. Hottentot is forgotten. It was used to pejoratively designate an indigenous nation near the Cape of Good Hope. Originally, used by the Dutch in the year of the catapum.
It is not censorship. Yes, a good thing, after 60 years. The Board only sees you capable of noticing that a children’s movie is science fiction when you perceive that no child picks their nose. Even so, you can continue to see it unchanged, but the age classification changes a little, “which no one gave a damn until today,” remembers @thefdez (message deleted today).
A term that few had realized was being said – @bernax16 claims that he has seen the footage 70 times and does not remember when it was said – and that because it is anachronistic, it requires you to Google to realize the meaning, it is not offensive. The film adapted the book while keeping Hottentots knowing, as early as 1964, that it would help reinforce that Boom is a fool. If you will, even today the post-reinterpretation is to see the sequence as a repudiation of blackface.
Milei and this age rating are difficult to digest. Not even with a little sugar, these pills that they give us, will pass better.
