Trafalgar battle re-enactment aims to avoid humiliating French, again
Admiral Horatio Nelson may have guided the British naval fleet to a famous victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, but he faces a far tougher foe during celebrations to mark its 200th anniversary -- the massed forces of political correctness. Organizers of a re-enactment of the sea battle next month are billing it as a fight between a "Red Fleet" and a "Blue Fleet" -- rather than Britain and its French and Spanish adversaries -- to avoid French dignitaries feeling humiliated by watching their nation routed again, The Sunday Times said. The decision has puzzled some of the event's commercial sponsors. "Surely 200 years on, we can afford to gloat a bit," one told the paper under cover of anonymity.
National Post
ok..... now let me get this straight. Showing an event that ACTUALLY HAPPENED. where a dictator who ruled over two nations who are now democracies, including one nation that overthrew him would some how offend the french nation today.
does this bother anyone else? How soon till we begin stalinistically scrubbing our history books of anything that might offend some national group or another?
don't think this can;'t happen in the US.... well if we don't keep such stupidity down it will happen in the US
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