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Why haven't certain Songs, Movies and Books been cancelled yet?

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  • 16-06-2021 2:17pm
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    badabing106
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭


    If a sports person can be cancelled for a tweet they wrote when they were a teenager

    www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/06/07/ecbinvestigating-second-player-posting-racially-offensive-tweets/amp/

    Why not people who wrote songs, books, movies?

    I was listening to a Rod Stewart song where he references "falling in love with a slit eyed girl" and it deeply offended my ears . I think it is time for Rod Stewart and others to be called out on this

    Do you agree? Are there any books, movies or songs that deeply offend you or cause you to blush the color purple ?


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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    No


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    con747
    Registered Users Posts: 5,885 ✭✭✭con747


    No

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.



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    #4
    E36Ross
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭E36Ross


    Don't ****ing start giving them ideas!!


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    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,080 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    No, unless it gives us good reason to cancel Crazy Frog's back catalogue.


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    SnazzyPig
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭SnazzyPig


    Have a listen to The Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar.


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    #7
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    SnazzyPig wrote: »
    Have a listen to The Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar.

    ...while watching Beyonce's Single Ladies.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    mcgragger
    Registered Users Posts: 438 ✭✭mcgragger


    Jesus Christ - turn it off it you dont like it.


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    badabing106 wrote: »
    If a sports person can be cancelled for a tweet they wrote when they were a teenager

    www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/06/07/ecbinvestigating-second-player-posting-racially-offensive-tweets/amp/

    Why not people who wrote songs, books, movies?

    I was listening to a Rod Stewart song where he references "falling in love with a slit eyed girl" and it deeply offended my ears . I think it is time for Rod Stewart and others to be called out on this

    Do you agree? Are there any books, movies or songs that deeply offend you or cause you to blush the color purple ?

    I hate this calling out/cancelling crap usually by people with zero talent themselves. Unable to create anything they go about trying to tear down others. It's excruciatingly sad.

    Some clown was on about Father Ted here a few weeks ago, that was inane on another level.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #10
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,562 ✭✭✭Allinall


    badabing106 wrote: »
    If a sports person can be cancelled for a tweet they wrote when they were a teenager

    www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/06/07/ecbinvestigating-second-player-posting-racially-offensive-tweets/amp/

    Why not people who wrote songs, books, movies?

    I was listening to a Rod Stewart song where he references "falling in love with a slit eyed girl" and it deeply offended my ears . I think it is time for Rod Stewart and others to be called out on this

    Do you agree? Are there any books, movies or songs that deeply offend you or cause you to blush the color purple ?

    Eh.... No it didn't.


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    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,151 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Lol, OP reads the Telegraph. Scarlet for ye.


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    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,365 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Lol, OP reads the Telegraph. Scarlet for ye.

    I read it for the laugh. Then I realise it's how the Tories in charge actually see the world and I don't find it funny anymore.

    It's some trip, let me tell you.


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    Burt Renaults
    Registered Users Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Burt Renaults


    How are people reading the Telegraph when its website has the most stringent paywall that doesn't even allow you to view the main page without registering?


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    #14
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Just heard perfect 10 there on the radio by the beautiful south.... Dirty dirty song and I love it


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    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    badabing106 wrote: »
    If a sports person can be cancelled for a tweet they wrote when they were a teenager

    www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2021/06/07/ecbinvestigating-second-player-posting-racially-offensive-tweets/amp/

    Why not people who wrote songs, books, movies?

    I was listening to a Rod Stewart song where he references "falling in love with a slit eyed girl" and it deeply offended my ears . I think it is time for Rod Stewart and others to be called out on this

    Do you agree? Are there any books, movies or songs that deeply offend you or cause you to blush the color purple ?


    This whole “cancelled” nonsense is just silly. Generally the same people who are cancelled are choosing to participate in that nonsense themselves, so they only have themselves to blame when it happens to them.

    There’s plenty I find offensive, but they’re not actually doing any harm to anyone, they’re just annoying, like this chap (NSFW) -


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ny33H8BQTU


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    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    badabing106 wrote: »
    Are there any books, movies or songs that deeply offend you or cause you to blush the color purple ?

    Nope, I have common sense.


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    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    The book To Kill a Mockingbird has been cancelled in some schools in America.


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    Fuascailteoir
    Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    Just heard perfect 10 there on the radio by the beautiful south.... Dirty dirty song and I love it

    Listened to that song just now with a totally different perspective. Haven't heard it in a long long time and hadn't ever listened intently to some of the lyrics before.


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    #19
    badabing106
    Registered Users Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭badabing106


    Thankfully the English are finally acknowledging the warped and depraved mind of children's author Enid Blyton

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9695159/Enid-Blytons-work-racist-xenophobic-lacking-literary-merit-says-English-Heritage.html


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    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,129 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Wasn't Huckleberry Finn cancelled too, due to the use of the N word?

    Talking of the N word, I am truly shocked that they still allow one of my all time favourite films to be shown on TV. Blazing Saddles.


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    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    One in a Million - Guns n Roses


    Caused a stir back in the day. I imagine if released nowadays peoples heads would fall off and brains melt

    Was I or am I offended by it - No
    Should it or the band be cancelled...No


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,827 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The same kind of people into 21st cent cancelling would have been front and centre in holy Catholic ireland censorship of 'dirty' books and movies if they had been around in the 50s.


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    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Wasn't Huckleberry Finn cancelled too, due to the use of the N word?

    Talking of the N word, I am truly shocked that they still allow one of my all time favourite films to be shown on TV. Blazing Saddles.

    I watched an episode of Little House on the Praire on TG4 one midday afternoon and the kids found a runaway kid who was a slave or child of one in theit barn, the line said by one of the characters was something like 'Oh my, a real live N***o'

    Was I offended - No. I took it as being somewhat historically accurate as that was the term used in that particular period in history


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    #24
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    I am deeply offended by people who are easily offended, can we cancel these people. I suggest a complete media wide ban for every offender


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    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    Once upon a relatively recent time I had someone report me to HR in work because I was talking about Tinkers Hill.

    I was even called into a meeting by one of the HR Drones because of it.


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    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    I watched an episode of Little House on the Praire on TG4 one midday afternoon and the kids found a runaway kid who was a slave or child of one in theit barn, the line said by one of the characters was something like 'Oh my, a real live N***o'

    Was I offended - No. I took it as being somewhat historically accurate as that was the term used in that particular period in history

    Speaking of historical accuracy, I've noticed lately that a lot of period movies are historically inaccurate. In these movies/shows people of colour are shown in higher social standings than I'd imagine (unless I'm completely wrong) they actually were in the given period. I appreciate we have come a long way since then and the world is a much better place for it but why throw the facts out the window. Am I offended? No not at all, I just feel it takes away from the movie a little.


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    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    Speaking of historical accuracy, I've noticed lately that a lot of period movies are historically inaccurate.. why throw the facts out the window. Am I offended? No not at all, I just feel it takes away from the movie a little.

    It depends, often been historically inaccurate makes for a better film. Braveheart is a superb film but if it was very accurate you would have to remove most of the best moments of the film


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    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,942 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Depends on how popular the artist is.

    Gary Glitter songs are still played regularly.
    Lost Prophets songs are not played at all.


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    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    Once upon a relatively recent time I had someone report me to HR in work because I was talking about Tinkers Hill.

    I was even called into a meeting by one of the HR Drones because of it.


    I told the story in another thread about the war that I saw break out before me in an aquarium when a woman called her escaping toddler back with "Come back here you little monkey".
    And in that thread there were people who thought attacking that poor woman was justified by her use of the word.
    Scary world we live in today.


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    JimmyVik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    olestoepoke wrote: »
    I am deeply offended by people who are easily offended, can we cancel these people. I suggest a complete media wide ban for every offender


    I agree.
    But dont worry, they will be forgotten about soon enough. Im at the point know when I hear someone moaning about what someone else once said or wrote I just switch off.


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    #31
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,741 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    JimmyVik wrote: »
    I told the story in another thread about the war that I saw break out before me in an aquarium when a woman called her escaping toddler back with "Come back here you little monkey".
    And in that thread there were people who thought attacking that poor woman was justified by her use of the word.
    Scary world we live in today.

    Wait till they hear what i call my little terrorist!!


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