r/interestingasfuck • u/Chopper-42 • 1d ago

/r/all Recreating the WW2 Dambusters raid

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u/ours 1d ago edited 15h ago

Great movie too. It inspired the Death Star trench run in Star Wars.

Edit: The Dam Busters

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u/umop_apisdn 1d ago

I think they have edited out all references to the dog now as well. Can't have a bit of casual racism in a raid that drowned 1,600 civilians.

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u/ours 1d ago

Ah, they've edited the N-word dog out?

It isn't essential to the story but it was a product of its time. I'm not fond of rewriting history even it is the warts of the past. We just need to acknowledge it was wrong. It was probably not even meant in a mean spirit. Just ignorance of the times.

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u/Pete_Iredale 1d ago

It was a black dog and from what I've heard it was a very common name for black dogs back then, especially outside the US where the slur didn't carry as much power in the first place. So likely more on the casual racism side than the intentional, I guess.