Juggling With EggsJun 28

I was birthday present shopping for my nephew this afternoon…he’s always been obsessed with transport and he’s now of an age where he likes to make and collect models…so I visited #Norwich’s oldest toy/model shop in the Royal Arcade, Langleys.

I know that much of model making scene seems to revolve around the concept of war…but I was still stunned and saddened to see this…

Alt Text: An Airfix model of an ‘Afghan single story dwelling’ with the front wall demolished .

Show threadJo with elbows up & chin upJun 28
@JugglingWithEggs I would have outright thought this faked, but I’ve followed you a while and couldn’t believe you’d make this up. I had to check. This is so disgusting. Ugh.
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@JoBlakely

It was a really odd realisation of what I was suddenly seeing on display at kid’s eye level…it felt so distasteful, that I walked out without buying any model kits. Nephew is getting a table tennis set instead…will this go down better with SiL? Not sure!

Jun 28 at 6:59pmWeb
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@JugglingWithEggs
So depressing. This is not play. Its brainwashing the lust for war, hate, and domination. It’s gross, brainwashing supremacy & violence in play where there are no consequences they must actually deal with.
It’s also bereft of any humanity & sense that these are people exactly like us. Had lives. Like there was never anyone there. It says so much about the lack of humanity they have themselves.
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@JoBlakely

I think there is something very triggering about the recent and perhaps current proximity of what it depicts. This is not some imaginary or historic war fought in our grandparent’s generation or beyond. It happened in our adult lifetime. We watched in horror at what was done to Afghan people in essentially the name of ‘regime change’ much as in Iraq…and then we just overnight abandoned these people. And now our governments try to deny them refugee status. It’s sick.