Brownies to be renamed Embers in effort to remove barriers for racialized kids | CBC News

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[–]LtGreenCo 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why? Because brownies is derogatory to brown people somehow? That's a new one to me.

[–]Haylstorm 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Especially when it's just named after a helpful household spirit. You know one that embodies a lot of what the movement was meant to be about?

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean part of that mythology is that fairy folk in the British Isles used to be small and dark-skinned so it's not completely unrelated to racial issues.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

It's great for them that they can literally go into any bakery and get offended.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

On behalf of all jewish people who were burned in Nazi ovens, I am deeply offended by this name change!

[–]Femaleisnthateful[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You should seriously complain to them. I have a friend who is a burn victim, and I am deeply offended on his behalf (not that he cares)!

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What about the stunning and brave MAPs? How will a Cub Scout become a Boy Scout if he can't eat his first Brownie?

[–]clownworlddropout 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Sensible chuckle

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gonna start calling annoying Canucks embers from now on.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The name didn’t stop their “racialised” members, past and present, joining and presumably having fun and gaining the skills and habits that organisations like Girl Guides promotes, so what exactly is the problem?

That the name derives from Northern European folklore? Are we actually saying that we will rewrite and erase our folklore and mythologies because some people may or may not be offended by a name that was derived entirely innocently and has been used for decades without complaint?

All the little white girls who wanted to be Brownies, definitely points to it being a slander…twats, twats is a slander, but it’s what these people are.

Fuck this Maoist shit.

[–]Femaleisnthateful[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The article alludes to brown-skinned people complaining about the name. Maybe some kids got teased here and there. I'm not sure what constitutes a 'barrier' any more, I'm sure it's subjective like the meaning of every other word.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think Danish Wedding Cookies should be renamed "whiteys".

[–]IMissPorn 0 insightful - 2 fun0 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yay! Finally little White girls won't feel excluded anymore.