Cancel culture

[engelbert_humperdink]

I've always held the belief that no comedy should be censored, and every race or gender should be open for a ribbing. It's always sunny and Curb your enthusiasm are the best comedies around right now because Larry David and the  Sunny folk don't care who is offended.

It's comedy, If you are easily offended then don't watch. This cancel culture like most movements is like a big pile of shite rolling down a shite filled hill adding mass to the shite

[invergowrie arab]

2 minutes ago, engelbert_humperdink said:

I've always held the belief that no comedy should be censored, and every race or gender should be open for a ribbing. It's always sunny and Curb your enthusiasm are the best comedies around right now because Larry David and the  Sunny folk don't care who is offended.

It's comedy, If you are easily offended then don't watch. This cancel culture like most movements is like a big pile of shite rolling down a shite filled hill adding mass to the shite

All Lives Matter 

[NotThePars]

‘are comedy, don’t like it leave

[tamthebam]

I'm reminded of a poster for the Macc Lads many years ago that had on it in small print "If easily offended f**k off"

[invergowrie arab]

I had to Google the Macc lads.

The first paragraph on wiki makes them sound like absolute VLs 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

1 hour ago, engelbert_humperdink said:

I've always held the belief that no comedy should be censored, and every race or gender should be open for a ribbing. It's always sunny and Curb your enthusiasm are the best comedies around right now because Larry David and the  Sunny folk don't care who is offended.

It's comedy, If you are easily offended then don't watch. This cancel culture like most movements is like a big pile of shite rolling down a shite filled hill adding mass to the shite

As far as I am aware Curb your Enthusiasm and Sunny don't try and turn racial and LGBTQ slurs into comedy.

 

[HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows]

4 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

As far as I am aware Curb your Enthusiasm and Sunny don't try and turn racial and LGBTQ slurs into comedy.

 

Pretty sure Curb used the N word in the Crazy Eyes Killa episode. 

[Detournement]

5 minutes ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

As far as I am aware Curb your Enthusiasm and Sunny don't try and turn racial and LGBTQ slurs into comedy.

 

You've obviously never seen Curb!

[Detournement]

https://decider.com/2017/09/29/10-controversial-curb-your-enthusiasm-moments/

I had forgotten about the Palestinian Chicken. 

[Detournement]

I've got a feeling that The Sopranos would get a hard time now because of all the racism in it as well.

[NotThePars]

11 minutes ago, Detournement said:

I've got a feeling that The Sopranos would get a hard time now because of all the racism in it as well.

Nah, I doubt it. I think people understand that everyone in Always Sunny and Sopranos are scumbags that almost never succeed. Obvs there's the wrinkle in Curb with Larry being a martyr but he's still portrayed as being quite awful.

ETA: maybe not the best judge of this since I've read the Curb list and they're all pretty much my favourite episodes outside of the Seinfeld reunion arc

Edited July 29, 2020 by NotThePars

[tongue_tied_danny]

1 minute ago, MixuFruit said:

Can't believe 'beloved c**t' isn't on the list.

f**k you, you car wash c**t.

[Cosmic Joe]

The amount of folk on here that don't get the fact that Larry is ridiculing racism and homophobia by being an arsehole defies belief

[Detournement]

23 minutes ago, Angusfifer said:

The amount of folk on here that don't get the fact that Larry is ridiculing racism and homophobia by being an arsehole defies belief

There's a bit more to it than that. He's also cashing in on it being funny because it's trangressive. There's plenty of racism and homophobia on Seinfeld as well with the Puerto Rico day episode being too racist for the 90s.

Stuff like the Black family moving in after Katrina wouldn't fly at all now. 

[Mr Waldo]

 

2 hours ago, Angusfifer said:

The amount of folk on here that don't get the fact that Larry is ridiculing racism and homophobia by being an arsehole defies belief

But that is the point.  Love Thy Neighbour claimed the white guy, Eddie, was the butt of the joke, Alf Garnet, was the butt.  But, very recently, people took offense to The Mighty Boosh and The Simpsons!   Who decides Alf Garnet is bad but Larry David is acceptable?    Context should matter, but it no longer does to some.

To me, this is Cancel Culture - "I don't like it, get it (or them) destroyed."

 And with Scotland's new proposed Free Speech law - thankfully it is taking as much abuse as the football bigotry law - things will not be getting better.

[welshbairn]

9 minutes ago, Mr Waldo said:

 

But that is the point.  Love Thy Neighbour claimed the white guy, Eddie, was the butt of the joke, Alf Garnet, was the butt.  But, very recently, people took offense to The Mighty Boosh and The Simpsons!   Who decides Alf Garnet is bad but Larry David is acceptable?    Context should matter, but it no longer does to some.

To me, this is Cancel Culture - "I don't like it, get it (or them) destroyed."

 And with Scotland's new proposed Free Speech law - thankfully it is taking as much abuse as the football bigotry law - things will not be getting better.

Who actually took offense to The Mighty Boosh and The Simpsons? I don't know anyone, it was probably a newspaper latching on to a dafty on facebook. The same as "cancel culture", it's invented nonsense stirred up by modern day Jim Davidsons who can't get bookings because they're shit at what they do. 

P.S. You're getting your racist sitcoms mixed up, Alf Garnett was in Till Death us do Part.

Edited July 29, 2020 by welshbairn

[invergowrie arab]

Who has actually been cancelled?

As far as I can work it out basically legit paedo Milo and no one else.

 

[invergowrie arab]

8 minutes ago, MixuFruit said:

Hopkins must be on her way soon, lost libel, sold house to pay costs, kicked off Twitter...

Wiley just recently as well.

 

Deserved c***s, the system works well.

I seem to be getting loads of prompts on YouTube for Hopkins which is weird as I only use it for watching old football videos and soft porn 

[Bairnardo]

Who has actually been cancelled?
As far as I can work it out basically legit paedo Milo and no one else.
 

Tommy "the refugee" Robinson?

[Genuine Hibs Fan]

8 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Who actually took offense to The Mighty Boosh and The Simpsons? I don't know anyone, it was probably a newspaper latching on to a dafty on facebook. The same as "cancel culture", it's invented nonsense stirred up by modern day Jim Davidsons who can't get bookings because they're shit at what they do. 

P.S. You're getting your racist sitcoms mixed up, Alf Garnett was in Till Death us do Part.

This it for me, I can't remember an example of people actually arranging protests etc about a particular tv show being offensive, the "if you don't like it don't watch it" solution works. Some TV stations etc decide to pull things or remove actors because of potential blowback, usually prompted by no more than a few dozen people on Twitter wondering out loud about whether Apu from the Simpsons might be a wee bit sketchy. As always with anything to do with cancel culture though, it's pounced on by the most cynical p***ks around - Gervais, Maher, Chappelle etc as a way of remaining the underdog while being at the top of their fields and making money hand over fist.

It then takes folk like the OP and convinces them there's some sort of problem with pinko lefties insisting TV shows which lampoon or discuss racism be cancelled for being offensive, when it is literally those people who watch those shows

7 hours ago, MixuFruit said:

Download blocktube extension for Chrome or whatever, keyword block Hopkins. I don't know how people use normal fascist YouTube.

Even just not having targeted ads on YouTube is a beautiful thing. I get non targeted, which means I'm offered countless ways of making 10k online within weeks by watching a video training, how to become a top PUA, a military grade "tactical pen" and some Netflix style service for crackpot conspiracy docs

Edited July 30, 2020 by Genuine Hibs Fan