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Old 13-01-2022, 11:02 AM #1
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Default Marks and Spencer cancels Midget Gems sweets and renames them






[Marks & Spencer have rebranded
Midget Gems as Mini Gems after
woke protest

Dr Erin Pritchard warned
supermarkets 'midget' is
'a form of hate speech'
Tesco has announced it is
also reviewing the name
of its line of midget gems]




[The change should have happened years ago.
It is easy for people not called
the word to think its removal is
wrong,' Dr Pritchard, who also appeared
in Channel 4's Dating with Dwarfism, said.

She added that she had asked
Amazon to remove novelty items
which use the term but acknowledged
it would not be possible to rename
items no longer in production such
as the MG Midget car or the Daihatsu Midget minivan.]


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Goodbye shortbread.
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Goodbye shortbread.

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so now smaller and not British made?
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so now smaller and not British made?
Most things in Britain are small.
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so now smaller and not British made?
Not Yorkshire made.

The reason for the name change was not actually because the previous name caused offense, it's because they're only allowed to be called Midget Gems if they're handmade in the traditional way by Yorkshire Midgets.
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I swear those nutters sit around, trying to think of random things they can accuse of being "hateful".
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[Dr Erin Pritchard (pictured),
a lecturer in disability and education,
told supermarkets that the term midget
was 'a form of hate speech']
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ah damn if this happened last year I could have used in in my Top answers which celebrity has been cancelled question
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and this car never existed

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Ridiculous in my view.
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[Dr Erin Pritchard (pictured),
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was 'a form of hate speech']
Silly midget.
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So what are you supposed to call a midget these days?
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I've never actually heard of these sweets , they look like wine gums.
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So what are you supposed to call a midget these days?
Frodo.
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