{"id":50628,"date":"2023-11-15T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50628"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:24:25","slug":"qotd-enid-blyton-not-considered-worthy-of-a-commemorative-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/qotd-enid-blyton-not-considered-worthy-of-a-commemorative-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Enid Blyton not considered worthy of a commemorative coin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>… the discovery by the Mail on Sunday<\/em> that Enid Blyton \u2014 one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and influential children’s authors, creator of Noddy and the Famous Five<\/em> series \u2014 was denied a commemorative 50p coin on the 50th anniversary of her death because a Royal Mint “advisory committee” declared that “she is known to have been a racist, sexist, homophobe and not a very well-regarded writer”.<\/p>\n

Enid Blyton was born in 1897. Pretty much everyone of that generation \u2014 and of every one preceding it \u2014 would qualify as a “racist, sexist, homophobe” by the standards of the modern left.<\/p>\n

As for “not very well-regarded”, well she has sold over 600 million books \u2014 which probably counts for something, no?<\/p>\n

We do not know the identities of this Royal Mint “advisory committee” but we know exactly what type of person they are. They are the same type of people who make up the committee of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) which has decided to make adverts that promote “gender stereotypes” effectively illegal in the UK.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

There is no shortage of similar examples of the “political correctness gone mad” which has hijacked British culture. But the people enforcing it are a tiny minority of committed Social Justice Warriors \u2014 most of them educated in some worthless degree subject like gender studies, often “working” either in the human resources department or one with “diversity”, “equality”, or “sustainability” in their title \u2014 entirely at odds with the way most of the country still thinks.<\/p>\n

Like the Soviet Politburo or China’s Central Committee, they are the very few who exert extraordinary \u2014 indeed, terrifying \u2014 power over the many.<\/p>\n

True to Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s call for a “long march through the institutions”, these people have gained key positions of power the length and breadth of British culture.<\/p>\n

James Delingpole, “From ‘Sexist’ Advert Bans to ‘Racist’ Enid Blyton, the Left Has Ruined Britain”, Breitbart<\/em><\/a>, 2018-08-27.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… the discovery by the Mail on Sunday that Enid Blyton \u2014 one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and influential children’s authors, creator of Noddy and the Famous Five series \u2014 was denied a commemorative 50p coin on the 50th anniversary of her death because a Royal Mint “advisory committee” declared that “she is known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,8,7,28,53,41],"tags":[374,262,351,1020,997,1138],"class_list":["post-50628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-children","tag-culture","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-progressives","tag-socialjustice","tag-thepastisaforeigncountry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-daA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85728,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions\/85728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}