max Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 It does show however, that fake news isn't a new thing! It also shows that once a lie is told it cannot be untold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 It also shows that once a lie is told it cannot be untold. dont worry soon be christmas season...christmas will be banned......again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Cats Hat Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 dont worry soon be christmas season...christmas will be banned......again I've missed 'Christmas has been banned because it offends Muslims!'. I guess it's been eclipsed by all the Brexit nonsense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted November 11, 2018 Share Posted November 11, 2018 I've missed 'Christmas has been banned because it offends Muslims!'. I guess it's been eclipsed by all the Brexit nonsense! Christmas? Never heard of it. Those good-for-nothing pencil necks at the council have turned it into winterval- been that way for years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockjaw Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 So is a blackboard still called a blackboard Yes. .................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAC33 Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Jordan Peterson on the dangers of limiting free speech. https://truepundit.com/watch-jordan-peterson-says-criminalizing-offensive-speech-is-a-cure-so-much-more-worse-than-the-disease/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crosser Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 On 11/9/2018 at 10:56 AM, truman said: I think that's what Albert is getting at .. a few years ago there was no such thing as "hate crime"..things are being criminalised that used not to be... remember characters like "Alf Garnett" and "Eddie Booth"? Characters like those are the reason that "political correctness" has gone mad! Infact I'd go as far as to say that the airing of such crap was more responsible for stereotyping the (white) English as Bigots and louts, which in general they are not. I cringe when I hear about those shows because they were nothing but an attempt to belay racial tensions at the time with so-called humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert smith Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Crosser said: Characters like those are the reason that "political correctness" has gone mad! Infact I'd go as far as to say that the airing of such crap was more responsible for stereotyping the (white) English as Bigots and louts, which in general they are not. I cringe when I hear about those shows because they were nothing but an attempt to belay racial tensions at the time with so-called humour. It started many years before the aforementioned programmes , Take Shakespeare plays for example with its accursed Jew rants ,and Literature from Dickens to Walter Scott with the same issues . Yet these stage plays are still performed today with no protest from the P.C brigade . Alf Garnet gutter humour or Sheakespeare for the elite take your pick. Edited November 28, 2018 by Albert smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviathan13 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 People are no longer allowed to make up their own minds anymore. I hear language which i find abhorrent, but a person has the right to say something and we have the right to challenge them. Simply shutting down free speech won't change someone's mind; it will most probably reinforce their view! We should have free speech, but i fear the walls are closing in and we can already see that our words are being policed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Crosser said: Characters like those are the reason that "political correctness" has gone mad! Infact I'd go as far as to say that the airing of such crap was more responsible for stereotyping the (white) English as Bigots and louts, which in general they are not. I cringe when I hear about those shows because they were nothing but an attempt to belay racial tensions at the time with so-called humour. I would think the opposite actually. Characters like Alf Garnett were a joke on the very racists that Garnett was portraying. It was showing them up for the small minded biggots that they were. It was designed to lampoon their hate filled bile and wild comparisons against people who were brown or black or yellow with all the panto rediculousness it deserved. Warren Mitchell the Actor who played him was reported many times of showing his absolute disgust when knuckle draggers failed to see it was clearly satire and instead saw Garnett as some figurehead for their moronic beliefs. Mitchell himself was a patron of the Humanist Socity and supporter of human rights. Sometimes satirical humor needs to be shocking to be its most effective. Edited November 28, 2018 by ECCOnoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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