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  • In a time when we humans focus on our relationship with Hobbits, and Oompa-Loompas publicly disgrace themselves, let us celebrate these kindly little folk, and the donut holes named after them.

    May 2009 2009

  • With a thousand well-educated Oompa-Loompas in American Apparel, running around a massive aerodrome made of ice, helping him to restring his electric harp and filling his pots with multicoloured ink.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • In a time when we humans focus on our relationship with Hobbits, and Oompa-Loompas publicly disgrace themselves, let us celebrate these kindly little folk, and the donut holes named after them.

    Farewell to a Species 2009

  • In it he focuses on the way Roald Dahl's Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were changed over the years (with the author's okay) and the changes made to Lofting's book (not with his okay, he being deceased).

    Monica Edinger: What to do about Classic Children's Books that are Racist 2010

  • Roald agreed to “de-negro”44 the Oompa-Loompas in both book and movie, transforming them in the latter into dwarves with green hair and orange skin.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Could America live with itself if an entire generation of seemingly healthy white men fell victim to this dreaded disease and vanished like the great lost tribe of the Oompa-Loompas?

    Patrick Sauer: 10 Lesser-Known Ailments Now Covered By Our Socialist Overlords 2010

  • Could America live with itself if an entire generation of seemingly healthy white men fell victim to this dreaded disease and vanished like the great lost tribe of the Oompa-Loompas?

    10 Lesser-Known Ailments Now Covered By Our Socialist Overlords 2010

  • In it he focuses on the way Roald Dahl's Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were changed over the years (with the author's okay) and the changes made to Lofting's book (not with his okay, he being deceased).

    Monica Edinger: What to do about Classic Children's Books that are Racist 2010

  • The producers were put under pressure to change both the nature of the Oompa-Loompas and the title of the film.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • For the NAACP, the Oompa-Loompas seemed clearly to reinforce a stereotype of slavery that American blacks were trying to overcome.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

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