Blackface

Doctors room ghost · 09-06-2020 10:23PM

The world has gone and got itself crazy.

09-06-2020 10:25PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

A film that depicts racists as backward and thick is going to be deleted from existence.

What is the logic behind that statement?

If you think that applying logic to the ideology that being offended is more important than anything else, then you are sorely deluded.

Jimmy Fallon had to apologise and actually made a grovelling apology for dressing as his friend (who took no offense) 20 years ago for a comedy sketch.

People are ****ing stupid. Being offended is a status symbol.

If the little bitches weren't too busy watching Ru Paul and Dance Mom's they'd be trying to "cancel" blazing saddles and anything else from the past that mentioned anything "problematic"

major bill · 09-06-2020 10:29PM

I actually thought all this **** had gone away when covid started, people were less concerned over trivial stuff and Facebook etc was a better place for a bit.......roll on the last couple of weeks and we back tippy toeing around the overly sensitive!!!

Hego Damask · 09-06-2020 10:29PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

A film that depicts racists as backward and thick is going to be deleted from existence.

What is the logic behind that statement?

Same logic as removing Little Britain hoss ....

neonsofa · 09-06-2020 10:30PM

cj maxx wrote: »

Somewhere there's a photo of a 24/5 yo cj maxx in Rasta gear with a mop on his head ( ala dreads) and smoking massive cone joint. I really hope it never gets out

We have a photo of us dressed up as ghosts for halloween using white pillow cases over our heads, like a white hood...i don't know what is worse, that our parents didn't notice their kids looked like they were attending a klan meeting, or that they did and they took photos!

Danzy · 09-06-2020 10:33PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

A film that depicts racists as backward and thick is going to be deleted from existence.

What is the logic behind that statement?

What has logic to do with the modern activists?

ChelseaRentBoy · 09-06-2020 10:34PM

World Snooker Federation will be changing the black ball to a rainbow coloured "all inclusive" coloured ball next.

1800_Ladladlad · 09-06-2020 10:40PM

Delighted with himself, innocent but lethal now. Im Sure Paul McGrath was stunned seeing things like this

Danzy · 09-06-2020 10:43PM

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

I couldn't see any other thread about this.

https://news.sky.com/story/little-britain-removed-from-iplayer-and-netflix-after-blackface-criticism-12003558

In a nut shell comedians are having to apologise for black facing themselves in their sketches over the years.jimmy fallon apologising for a sketch he did on snl 20 years ago.
Its absolutely pathetic and a world gone mad.
Little Britain is one of them.that is comedy gold and having to apologise for some sketches now is a disgrace.
Its like erasing bits of history just because it offends a certain section.
There's isnt a race on the planet that hasn't had the piss taken out of it.
A load of bollox.

I'm starting to hate the left at this stage.

Even though I would consider myself left, a collection of 1950s Bishops at this stage.

Puritanical, control freak shower of snobby c678s.

Ahh, that felt good.

shaveAbullock · 09-06-2020 10:44PM

Danzy wrote: »

I'm starting to hate the left at this stage.

Even though I would consider myself left, a collection of 1950s Bishops at this stage.

Puritanical, control freak shower of snobby c678s.

Ahh, that felt good.

When either the left or right become extreme they start to look very similar.

Danzy · 09-06-2020 10:47PM

shaveAbullock wrote: »

When either the left or right become extreme they start to look very similar.

The mindset, the psychological needs are the same.

Politics or religion is just a vehicle.

Jesuit, Radical Socialist, Fascist, all interchangeable, just riding the horse that came along.

Hego Damask · 09-06-2020 11:41PM

shaveAbullock wrote: »

When either the left or right become extreme they start to look very similar.

Indeed the horseshoe theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

whisky_galore · 09-06-2020 11:51PM

major bill wrote: »

I actually thought all this **** had gone away when covid started, people were less concerned over trivial stuff and Facebook etc was a better place for a bit.......roll on the last couple of weeks and we back tippy toeing around the overly sensitive!!!

These whiney bastards are back when CV19 is now old news and seems to be on the way out.
A few days ago, a Gaelgoir was whining on about the govt Covid booklet not being in Irish, we are getting back to normal service.

rodDaly69 · 10-06-2020 12:10AM

Say Your Number wrote: »

A film that depicts racists as backward and thick is going to be deleted from existence.

What is the logic behind that statement?

Because that is the general mentality of those that scream racist as a pastime.

Even us paddies get a digging in it: "we'll take the n****** and the c*****, but we won't take the Irish!"

https://youtu.be/boO4RowROiw

murpho999 · 10-06-2020 12:11AM

I don't see how comedians playing black characters in their show is racist.

So are we saying now that in the future we can't have a white comedian impersonate or characterise a famous black person in a humorous manner and it automatically means it's rascist?

That's not right and it's not the definition of racism as far as I am concerned.

riclad · 10-06-2020 12:12AM

Yes we are supposed to be politically correct and sensitive to all minoritys.
But it's a bit ridiculous to criticise programs made 10 or 20 years ago when attitudes were different about race, minority groups or women's rights.
If a actor wants to apologise now for portraying black people in an insensitive manner that, s OK
Things are getting better now, there's lots of programs featuring actors from various minority groups and it's no longer acceptable to have
old stereotyped characters shown in drama, s or comedy programs.
20 or 10 years ago there was a limited range of
parts for Asian or black actors on TV.
Now there are programs like blackish,
where most of the cast are from minority groups

OU812 · 10-06-2020 12:15AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9WDfg2idk

Wouldn't get away with that these days

RocketRaccoon · 10-06-2020 12:15AM

It's only a matter of time until Father Ted is mentioned. Dick Byrne and the lads dressing up as The Supreme is ripe for a picking by these pricks.

c.p.w.g.w · 10-06-2020 12:21AM

kowloon wrote: »

Was anyone pissed off by Tropic Thunder? I remember plenty of black comedians defending it. I'll hazard a guess that a lot of the people outraged over it were outraged on someone else's behalf.

Tropic Thunder was brilliant, and Robert Downey Jr's performance really made it

murpho999 · 10-06-2020 12:23AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBXtVrGmaI

No doubt the film "True Identity" where Lenny Henry goes whiteface will also be banned and removed from You Tube and other services?

murpho999 · 10-06-2020 12:25AM

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Tropic Thunder was brilliant, and Robert Downey Jr's performance really made it

Was a good film up to the silly rescue mission.

tonycascarino · 10-06-2020 03:58AM

Why has this 'racist' film not been banned yet by the PC freaks of this world. ''Racism'' it seems only goes one way....

Quantum Erasure · 10-06-2020 04:28AM

OU812 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e9WDfg2idk

Wouldn't get away with that these days

fixed

Hangdogroad · 10-06-2020 05:39AM

KevRossi wrote: »

I support this as it means RTE can get Twink the fu*k off the Telly for good.

This is from The Live Mike a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZePct7v-I

I remember Derek Davis blacking up as Mr T on a few occasions.

10-06-2020 05:54AM

KevRossi wrote: »

I support this as it means RTE can get Twink the fu*k off the Telly for good.

This is from The Live Mike a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZePct7v-I

Racism and misandry, rubbing her hands I'd say thinking of the shekels - two trips to the LLS to "apologise" for her behaviour... No apology for the latter though - "arrah, sher ya know it was just a bit of Craic Ryan - no harm at all in it"

Paddygreen · 10-06-2020 06:31AM

We have to reform the world to be a nicer and more progressive thinking place guys. It is about time Fr Ted was banned, there is b****face in that and its clips are consistently used by racists.

10-06-2020 06:49AM

I never thought so many people in this country were cracked.

Paddygreen · 10-06-2020 06:58AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

I remember Derek Davis blacking up as Mr T on a few occasions.

Incredible. He should be brought in for questioning. How can anybody think this blatant rasism dressed up by the perpetrators is “a bit of craic”.

ThunbergsAreGo · 10-06-2020 07:29AM

HBC08 wrote: »

I dressed up as Ali G for Halloween in 2005.

Thats me ****ed now if I ever want to run for office.

Least that was a good costume. I went as Phil Babb when I was younger!

Birdie Num Num · 10-06-2020 07:57AM

Paddygreen wrote: »

Incredible. He should be brought in for questioning. ...

That could be messy. You wouldn’t get a word out of him anyhow.

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