Cancel Culture

[Strokes]

2 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Oh dear haha! I’m not sure how it’s guilty of any of these things? The argument is about ‘Chinese Alan’ but what’s wrong with that?

I’d guess it was tongue in cheek gone wrong tbh

 

[CosbehFox]

Seems ridiculous. And completely misses and goes away from the point of BLM. The institutional differences in education, policing and education 

[Strokes]

2 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Seems ridiculous. And completely misses and goes away from the point of BLM. The institutional differences in education, policing and education 

The bandwagon is out of control and heading into oblivion.

[urban.spaceman]

9 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Even Owen Jones thinks it’s gone too far. 

****ing hell even the Witchfinder General has limits. 

[bovril]

Jesus wept. 

[foxile5]

14 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Oh dear haha! I’m not sure how it’s guilty of any of these things? The argument is about ‘Chinese Alan’ but what’s wrong with that?

It should be banned in grounds of poor taste

[yorkie1999]

Dads army and only fools and horses next

[Trav Le Bleu]

How dare Carl Douglas sing about "funky chinamen!"  

 

I also fear for Mt Rushmore. 

 

Except Lincoln, you can keep Lincoln.

 

He was shot before he turned racist.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

 

Now it's getting personal.

But you're not laughing "with" Fawlty, you're laughing "at" him and his ridiculous notions. Therein lies the crux.

 

It's the same with characters such as Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, various Blackadders, Alan Partridge, Arnold Rimmed, Douglas Reynolm, Jim Bell,..you're not supposed to think, there's someone I'm going to model myself on, they're someone to be ridiculed.

 

It's almost as if some people don't understand humour.

[The Horse's Mouth]

I love how we're cancelling shows because of a racist slur, but nobody wants to mention the uyghurs

[foxile5]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

But you're not laughing "with" Fawlty, you're laughing "at" him and his ridiculous notions. Therein lies the crux.

 

It's the same with characters such as Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, various Blackadders, Alan Partridge, Arnold Rimmed, Douglas Reynolm, Jim Bell,..you're not supposed to think, there's someone I'm going to model myself on, they're someone to be ridiculed.

 

It's almost as if some people don't understand humour.

This important nuance is being lost entirely to the baying mob mentality. 

 

Similar to the blanket demand to tear down any statue that tickles the fancy - race and history is more than just good / bad. And those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. 

[Dan]

Genuinely starting to think this is deliberate now.

[foxile5]

1 minute ago, Dan LCFC said:

Genuinely starting to think this is deliberate now.

Which parts? It's become exhausting to keep up. 

[urban.spaceman]

5 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Genuinely starting to think this is deliberate now.

Me and a mate have been spamming the statue campaign all day.

[Dan]

3 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Which parts? It's become exhausting to keep up. 

Couldn't even specify which but it's so utterly ridiculous to the point I actually think it's just deliberately to cause a stir. 

[urban.spaceman]

This is so much fun.

 

[foxile5]

8 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Couldn't even specify which but it's so utterly ridiculous to the point I actually think it's just deliberately to cause a stir. 

The whole ****ing worlds a stir. I'm so tired. 

[foxile5]

8 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

This is so much fun.

 

Hahaha what site is that. 

[urban.spaceman]

Just now, foxile5 said:

Hahaha what site is that. 

https://www.toppletheracists.org

 

Knock yourself out 

[foxile5]

46 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

https://www.toppletheracists.org

 

Knock yourself out 

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[urban.spaceman]

So far I've reported Simon DeMontfort for banishing the Jews from Leicester on the anniversary of the Holocaust 790 before it happened, Brian Clough for taking Nottingham Forest out of Europe thereby starting us off on the long path to Brexit, Florence Nightingale for never saying anything in support of non-binary rights thereby reinforcing the UK's tyrannical cis-normative agenda, Boadicea and Her Daughters for the lack of diversity and representation, and Nelson's Column for it's ablism. 

[Dan]

Might report that bear in Hugglescote for supporting Adolf Hitler

[urban.spaceman]

 

[WigstonWanderer]

Well this all seems to be going much as I expected. Can’t wait for burning of the books.

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, BKLFox said:

 

The guy has a past, a history of 1st degree felonies & serving 5 separate prison sentences spanning back to the early 90s. The latest he served was a 5yr stretch for being the ring leader in forcefully gaining entry to a pregant womens home with intent to rob, when she resisted he aimed his gun at her stomach when she screamed he pistol whipped her before going through the house for what the gang could take.

As i say he was a wrong'un but did not deserve to die they way he did, but we can't ignore the past when it doesn't fit the agenda...or can we?

If he didn't deserve to die the way he did, then why bring up a violent past that he has done time for and served his debt to society from at all, if the two have nothing to do with each other?

 

History should be brought up when it's relevant to present matters, so I'd be interested in knowing exactly what the mans past has to do with the manner in which he died, which is the key element of all this. How he died is the cause celebre, not the manner in which he lived.