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Prep School Drops Native American Names for Fear of “Cultural Appropriation”

by Richard Eldred
16 June 2024 7:04 PM

Dulwich Prep School, renowned for alumni such as Hugh Bonneville and John Simpson, is bidding adieu to its Native American tribal house names over ‘cultural sensitivity’ concerns. The Mail has the story.

He may not quite be the last of the Mohicans, but BBC veteran John Simpson last night took aim at his old school after it scrapped using Native American tribes for its house system.

Dulwich Prep London, a fee-paying all-boys school, feels the long-standing names constitute “cultural appropriation”. It says the changes follow concerns raised by some parents.

But critics have denounced the rebranding. Since 1916, pupils at the school – whose alumni also includes actor Hugh Bonneville – have been placed in one of four houses. Mr. Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, was in Mohican house.

Another house, Deerfeet, was named in honour of an Indian runner known as Deerfoot. The others, Chippeway and Ojibwas, were named in celebration of the Ojibwa people from the Great Lakes in the U.S. and Canada, also referred to as the Chippewa.

Deerfeet will now be called Lamassu, a mythical creature from Mesopotamia which had a human head and a bull’s body. The other three houses will be Phoenix, Pegasus and Gryphon.

Mr. Simpson told the Mail on Sunday: “I’m really depressed that something fundamental to the experience of every Dulwich Prep kid – which of us doesn’t remember whether he was a Chippeway, Deerfeet, Mohican or Ojibwa? – is being done away with.

“And to what end? So indigenous Americans won’t accuse Dulwich of cultural appropriation? Please. They’ve got better things to do.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BBCCultural AppropriationSchoolsWoke Gobbledegook

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

when are they going to vaccinate the kids?

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago
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I can tell you when they will “vaccinate” my children. Never.

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Quernus
Quernus
4 years ago

When the roadmap was unveiled, I had no doubt that “something” would come up which would push back all the dates – the roadmap was never intended to be adhered to, it was just another carrot to dangle in front of the masses to ensure continued compliance. But it’s just another frog-boiling exercise – it’s happened time and time again over the past year, and will continue to do so until we put a stop to it. “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…”, etc.When will people wake up to what’s really happening?!

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
Reply to  Quernus

the roadmap was as believable as 3 weeks to flatten the curve

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awildgoose
awildgoose
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

Happy week 53 of 3 weeks to flatten the curve!

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Quernus

‘Fool me ten times plus …..’ ??????

Fill in the blank.

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Quernus
Quernus
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Precisely, RickH – I’m astonished at people’s apparent gullibility! I can only assume that people just can’t even contemplate the alternative narrative that the government may not be acting in our best interests, so it’s preferable to swallow the lies and trust that it’ll all be over soon….

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  Quernus

When the roadmap was unveiled I predicted it would be the mass testing of children that would be used to block the lifting of lockdown. I still think they will use the false positives generated from this in synchrony with the claimed shortages of ‘vaccine’, and I believe it will lead to them ultimately not lifting lockdown at all because we’ll miss the summer and will be due to go back into flu season.

Last edited 4 years ago by J4mes
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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

“The standard for testing and monitoring of vaccines is higher than it is for most other medicines, because they are one of the few medical treatments given to healthy people (mainly healthy children). This means that the level of acceptable risk is much lower than it might be for a cancer treatment, for example. It can take many years for a vaccine to pass through all the stages described below. In the case of the MenB vaccine, for example, it took 15 years from the first idea to the vaccine being licensed for use.”

https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/vaccine-development

Amazing we’ve compressed 15 years into 6 months!

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
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Imagine how many lives would have been saved if they’d compressed the 15 years development of the MenB vaccine into 6 months ‘with no loss of safety’

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
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Of course – the balance of risk for cancer treatments is entirely different! Doh!

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

“no one can have had any idea how effective the vaccination programme would be.”

The latest mythology strikes. But freedom doesn’t.

Well … who would have thought it, hand on cock?

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
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I have yet to see any evidence the vaccine program, lockdown, masks and large scale testing have worked

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

“If full vaccination becomes required for holidays abroad or even more mundane things like going to the cinema, millions of younger people may end up being excluded from participating for the whole summer.”

See how the media (including LS) are weaselling away while perpetually normalising the idea of a ‘vaccine passport’? And the dumb public still don’t see it.

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BeBopRockSteady
BeBopRockSteady
4 years ago
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So they expect over 60s to be in restaurants and swimming pools come July while telling young healthy people they can’t?

La la land

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago

More distraction nonsense but sort of o/t

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PWL
PWL
4 years ago

Boris Johnson is going to be vaccinated in the same way he had Covid-19.
Boris Johnson’s Big Lie In, And Lying; Part One

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PWL
PWL
4 years ago

Boris Johnson is going to be vaccinated in the same way he had Covid-19.
Boris Johnson’s Big Lie In, And Lying; Part Two

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

What ‘setback’?

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