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Originally Posted by StylinRed
because the falklands war is recent in comparison...and the issues haven't ended...(recent vote)
Europe still imprisons people simply questioning the holocaust and that ended 70 years ago
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The end of the Vietnam War and the Falklands War are only 7 years apart.
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Originally Posted by StylinRed
and here we have what was/is still a hot topic issue in Argentina, the sovereignty vote happened in 2013, and we have Brits poking the bull within it's pen (protesters consisted of falkland war veterans)
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As far as the protestors go the ones speaking to the crew may have been veterans but the asshats attacking the crew sure as hell weren't old enough to have been in a war in 1982.
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Originally Posted by StylinRed
it's just painfully obvious that the BBC should have been a bit more sensitive to the issue...especially when producers had a 2 weeks heads up and a contingency plan (that they never went through with)
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I'm not sure how the BBC could have been more sensitive without cancelling the entire shoot partway through. They didn't know the plate was something to even consider until they were already a few days into production, and when it was brought to their attention they came up with a plan to change the plate before getting to the city that may take offense to it. Bear in mind nobody had displayed any sort of issue with the plate for the majority of their journey. Then when protestors show up and ask them to leave they agree to do so, and when they're trying to leave they get ambushed by some shitheads that clearly knew the only route the crew could take (which makes me think the protestors at the hotel were trying to force the crew into a trap).
And bear in mind, this is all over one interpretation of seven letters and numbers on a piece of metal, even IF it was intentional that's absolute childs play. Anyone who can be so severely offended by something like that needs to get the pinecone out of their ass because there are much, much more offensive things out there.
Sorry Argentina, but the Falklands aren't yours, those Chilean islands aren't yours, your city isn't the southernmost in the world so stop acting like a bunch of twats.