The National Theatre of Scotland has joined the woke brigade and banned the word “spooky” over the Halloween season because it’s racist..Its move comes despite the fact there hasn’t been a single complaint and no record of it ever being used as a racial slur in the United Kingdom..A source at the Scottish theatre told the Daily Record no one has complained about the term “spooky” but they were concerned the word could become problematic in the future. .“There’s been a lot of training and meetings since the Black Lives Matter movement and how National Theatre Scotland should change,” RT reported..It wasn’t until the Second World War that “spook” started to refer to black people,” NPR reported..The black Army pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Institute were referred to as the “Spookwaffe” — waffe being the German word for weapon, or gun. (Luftwaffe was the name of the German air force)..The word was last used by National Theatre of Scotland in 2016 for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Old Kirk in Kirkcaldy where it was used to describe a “spooky location.”.The theatre’s ban seems to have gone over like a lead balloon with some in Britain..RT reported Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, the newly installed Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and a prominent black academic, said the publicly funded theatre was “doing more harm than good” and that he’d never heard of the slur..TV celebrity Piers Morgan called the move “another example of absurd virtue-signalling” and claimed it does nothing to “advance the cause of racial equality.”
The National Theatre of Scotland has joined the woke brigade and banned the word “spooky” over the Halloween season because it’s racist..Its move comes despite the fact there hasn’t been a single complaint and no record of it ever being used as a racial slur in the United Kingdom..A source at the Scottish theatre told the Daily Record no one has complained about the term “spooky” but they were concerned the word could become problematic in the future. .“There’s been a lot of training and meetings since the Black Lives Matter movement and how National Theatre Scotland should change,” RT reported..It wasn’t until the Second World War that “spook” started to refer to black people,” NPR reported..The black Army pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Institute were referred to as the “Spookwaffe” — waffe being the German word for weapon, or gun. (Luftwaffe was the name of the German air force)..The word was last used by National Theatre of Scotland in 2016 for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Old Kirk in Kirkcaldy where it was used to describe a “spooky location.”.The theatre’s ban seems to have gone over like a lead balloon with some in Britain..RT reported Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, the newly installed Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and a prominent black academic, said the publicly funded theatre was “doing more harm than good” and that he’d never heard of the slur..TV celebrity Piers Morgan called the move “another example of absurd virtue-signalling” and claimed it does nothing to “advance the cause of racial equality.”