They'll be trying to ban these next!
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 17:49,
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One of the best bits ever
of one of the best things ever, ever.
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unclepills Sixty 25th of Decembers, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 18:05,
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Multiculturalism reached a sweet spot for a few years in the 90s, early 00s. Nobody noticed or cared that two of the three leads in Red Dwarf were black, despite the absence of quotas which we have now. There was blacking-up in Little Britain/Boosh/League but the difference was generally understood. South-Asian comics applauded Apu. Goodness Gracious Me good-naturedly mocked white Brits. We were all happy taking the piss out of each other. All was as it should be. And then...
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Jun 2020, 18:36,
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You're right, dear Penis
Blair's black genie is out of the bottle. We are all enemies now (yours has always, mystifyingly, been the Jews). And multiculturalism is utterly fucked.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Jun 2020, 19:08,
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Valid grievances are inflated disproportionately and their blanket application is unfair and dangerous.
Some truth and reconciliation would be welcome, but I fear we're going to get more fear and loathing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 20:26,
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None of the usual adversaries here on this one, old chap.
No-one's prepared to mount a defence of banning The League of fucking Gentlemen. It's almost as though I were right all along.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Fri 12 Jun 2020, 21:02,
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It's fun watching the Left cannibalise itself in their perpetual advancement of doublethink though.
JK Rowling's current woes are particularly amusing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:23,
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"The Left."
I have found that people who regularly decry "The Left" are usually talking about liberals, and are usually daft cunts who cannot be reasoned with.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 15:39,
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It's just shorthand for
Reds, teachers, bleeding hearts, pinkos, strangely tactile scout leaders, students, junkies, non-African Anglican bishops, the feckless and trustafarians. Which one are you? I'm guessing not a bishop.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sun 14 Jun 2020, 16:36,
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Why you always so cold about the junkies, man?
Stop being so uptight and cut them some slack.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 14 Jun 2020, 21:24,
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After hundreds of years of being treated as 'less than'.
People might take a while to calm down and take a more reasoned approach.
A bit like virtually any human conflict whatsoever.
Anyway, if it wasn't for attention seeking twats, legitimate sneering would be trickier.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:20,
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Is the power of inherited, collective grievance equal to that of individual, personal grievance?
Asking for a friend.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:28,
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That's a difficult one to answer concisely.
Some statues being taken down and TV shows off, (probably temporarily), are not exactly equivalent to the prejudice experienced.
Some will always take the opportunity to kick off stupidly, make shit decisions or retreat into nostalgia.
It can be easy for others to criticise who haven't had prejudice regularly inflicted on them, it is both inherited and current. Imagine how you might feel if your community had a Tulsa massacre, etc, etc.
Too 'tired' for arguing
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 22:53,
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Because of all the prejudice we've received working in England, all the "bartender" and "colonial" jokes
Us Australians demand our suffering be acknowledged by replacing the Colston statue with one of Rolf Harris
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:12,
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Only if you drop the rising inflection.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:18,
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has the entirety of the universes past condensed into this one brief present moment?
that's what my mate reckons
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 12 Jun 2020, 23:14,
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He has better meds than I get.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 0:54,
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careful what you wish for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXaGPc_vFSg
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 1:59,
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Bum trip, man.
Or rather, a allegory for philosophical suicide in the absurdist sense.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 2:08,
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A virtue signalling competition that is getting ever more hysterical
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... people started doing coke instead of pills.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 16:33,
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I love The Day Today but it's a poor example of the point you are trying to make
'They' (presumably you disagree with this group) have taken down some old comedy shows due to perceived bad taste such as unironic black-face.
One can argue that it is all a bit of an over-reaction but it is nothing new. Media companies have been quietly retiring troubling material for years and mostly nobody has noticed. Perhaps our grandparents miss the Black & White Minstrels shows of the Seventies - that doesn't make that content any less gruesome (by today's standards).
The sad thing about this current take-down is that the right get to use it to distract from the real issue - real lived racism which pervades society. Statues and TV shows are small beer, the movement is about trying to get some equality.
Attitudes Night is making the point that the cultural norms of the past are disturbing or grotesque - it is out and out satire. Come Fly With Me is just black face, lazy, stereotype and offensive to the people it sends up. TV Executives/Streaming Services can tell the difference.
I'm guessing you are not campaigning for the return of Bernard Manning on TV or for Jim Davison's Chalky White routine.
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Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sat 13 Jun 2020, 6:38,
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