Should RTE stop airing Father Ted?

Nobody is getting riled up? Simply making the point that there are no winners in this - one side cannot with a straight face try to cancel Linehan while also thinking they have a right to be downright vicious and not expect a response to it.

Sure and I suppose the woke types are paragons of integrity yeah? No skeletons in the closet - be kind and all that? Pull the other one.

Grammarians like Merriam-Webster don't control discourse just because they can produce their own definitions of words.

The most boycotted companies in the world are Nike, Coca Cola, McDonald's and Nestle.

"Omg you cancelled the Coca Cola company😥"

A pile-on against an individual person and their ability to find employment is not the same as refusing to buy the product of a well-known brand.

Really these mega-corporations themselves act as instruments of social control in how they wield their financial power.

I think you know and understand that perfectly well even if you claim not to.

@victor8600 "If Linehan produced a comedy about trans people"

There's an episode of The IT Crowd which is a comedy about trans people.

That's how his feuding got started, Linehan refused to apologise over it and then got drawn into online fighting ever after.

Need to start up a gofundme for Mrs. Carberry.

Yes but only because it hasn't been off RTÉ since they choose not to commission the show.

Yes I know they were never offered the show, but that's because the creators knew they wouldn't commission it.

And Graham is entitled to his opinion.

Exactly. He can't force a venue to host his event either. The right of free association also means the right to not associate with whoever you choose. Linehan crossed the line from expressing opinion into outright harassment of specific named people.

If it went to referendum, the people demanding a referendum will probably be very shocked by the result.

I don't think so. You need to remember there is a very silent majority that don't use the internet and don't interact with this topic. Don't take a few boards commenters or tweets as being representative of support for this, it has none in the wider population (as the government discovered and ignored through the public consultation on it).

There's a couple of things. Linehan has gone off the deep end. He's so far down the rabbit hole that his wife and kids left him because of it. He's stated that was the reason when he was addressing some parliamentary committee.

He's repeatedly called people who support trans rights groomers and paedophiles. He's doxxed people. He's turned into a horrible person.

I can fully understand the reason that places are refusing to book him.

Should father Ted be banned? Probably not. People who will agree with Linehan will say no to banning. What about people who disagree with him? Well, he's not getting any money from it. He's not benefiting from it. It's not like rebroadcasting it will rehabilitate his career.

Interesting! Apparently, the episode (S3.E4 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320786/) wasn't transparently transphobic (=reasonably sensible for 2008), and showed Douglas breaking up with April after he learned that she was trans and then regretting it, ending the episode with Douglas crying about this. But then some overzealous transactivists criticized Linehan over this episode and he just lost his marbles and went on a counter-offensive that was completely over the top.

No. Shouldnt be silenced for telling the truth and calling out the deranged loonies