And So It Goes

June 10, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, misanthropy, Political, sophistry 25

The revisionism continues apace as wrongthink gets cancelled.

Gone with the Wind, for example.

Gone with the Wind has been taken off HBO Max following calls for it to be removed from the US streaming service.

HBO Max said the 1939 film was “a product of its time” and depicted “ethnic and racial prejudices” that “were wrong then and are wrong today”.

It said the film would return to the platform at an unspecified date with a “discussion of its historical context”.

Those of us who are grown ups and received a decent education, don’t need a discussion of historical context, because we understand it already.

And then we have Little Britain.

Little Britain has been removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox as objections resurfaced to some of the sketch show’s characters.

Netflix pulled the Matt Lucas and David Walliams series on Friday, along with their other comedy Come Fly With Me.

The BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said “times have changed” since it first aired.

Both shows include scenes where the comedians portray characters from different ethnic backgrounds.

Because, of course, you can only make fun of whitey. I can’t say that I was a fan particularly. I always found it a bit hit and miss. However, the same point stands, it is being excised from the canon because of the new censorship. I don’t have a Netflix account. I will not be having one now.

And this fuckwittery.

A group of young BAME actors who have spoken out about racial discrimination they endured at a leading drama school have proposed their own action plan.

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London has admitted it has been complicit in systemic racism.

Now, 240 former students have signed a blueprint letter which they hope could be a model for other drama schools.

They say “racism is real at Central and it scars the lives of its students [and] staff” as well as many alumni.

The group formed after being dismayed when the institution posted a message supporting Black Lives Matter last week.

Britain is one of the  – if not the – most tolerant and accepting countries on the planet. No one has suggested that racism doesn’t occur, but the bar has been lowered so far that even a wrong look can be construed as racism. The whole thing has become a manufactured outrage. As a consequence, we have the new order digging out 1984 and using it as an instruction manual.

However, let’s finish on a positive note with a word or two form this guy:

For those of you who don’t have access to Farcebook, here is the rest of the text:

Yes Racism still exists in the Uk but it’s only in the minority. Not every white man is a Racist and not every bIack man is a racist. I live in Colchester Essex, where there’s not a lot of Black people and the Gods honest truth I’ve only experienced racism once in the 19 years that I’ve lived here and that was from a drunken idiot way back in 2005. All good though we gave him a good old school Fijian schooling ? ?? and he quickly understood .
I have a lot of good close friends that are white .
My Boss is a white man and I was fortunate enough for him to give me a job.
I live in a white society where the people I’ve met have been kind towards me and my family. I understand the Sympathy of the people of the UK towards George Floyd but don’t use this as an excuse to be a DICKHEAD!!!!!
SHOW SOME RESPECT and BE KIND you bunch of BELLENDS.

Not everybody is Racist, it’s like I said just a minority of people that have been taught to hate.
What you guys really should be protesting is about Corrupt Cops, it doesn’t only happen in America, this is also a massive thing in my Homeland in Fiji ??, and that’s why I’m out there protesting so my people can also stand up and be heard, where Justice can be served.
Proud Veteran of the British Army ????.

25 Comments

  1. Well said, Akuila Maz.

    This bit amused me: “I have a lot of good close friends that are white”. A white person claiming “I have a lot of good close friends that are black” would be laughed out of the building.

    Well said, nonetheless.

  2. Again, I fully support the removal of these offensive works which are highly triggering to so many marginalised communities. Once a sufficient quantity have been identified and removed, I propose that we display them in a specially-organised public exhibition to which people must then come for mandatory education around those elements which make them so unacceptable. We can place a large banner over the door that reads ‘Entartete Kunst’.

  3. Thanks for the full text as I indeed do not do Facebook but I hope Mr Maz gets lots of likes.

    Always thought Gone With The Wind was old fashioned and Little Britain peurile but that’s just me, I’m not obliged to watch them. I did think that LB was rather like Alf Garnett who gave the middle classes an excuse to sneer at the working class with their dreadfull ways and ridiculous prejudices.
    Radio 4 Today were interviewing a woke bloke about this whose main contribution was to say “As a white Male, as a Straight white Male I’m not fitted to describe the pain of Black People faced with this”. Sort of killed the conversation really.

    I can think of only a few circumstances when a nation systemattically loses it’s public statues and memorials.
    Losing a Total War as in the de-nazificztion of Germany.
    The overthrow of an unpopular regime, possibly foreign dominated as in the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.
    When one tin pot military dictator is replaced by another.
    When a civilisation is overwhelmed by another perhaps like the drawn out fall of the Roman Empire though that destruction was more by entropy than vandalism (see what I did there).
    Intensification of an ongoing revolution for example Maos Red Guards wholesale destruction of their own cultural legacy; how long before unwoke Professors start getting thrown off the roofs of University buildings?
    Sadly I feel our position is closest to the last example.

    A statue here is ‘on the list’ even though the Generals’ main role was in the Boer war, three generations after Britain started to abolish slavery throughout the world. The enemy were not even Black, of course but the Boer descendants of the Dutch. The statue was raised by public subscription because he took care not to get his men killed unnecessarily, to the annoyance of the War Office.

    On a brighter note many of the soon to be toppled statues will be popular locally and their destruction may be a nail in Labours dominance of local government (will not apply to London, obviously).

  4. And another thing, we are hearing from BLM folks that is ‘dangerous’ to trust white guys in partnerships (nearly said marriage oops), isn’t that exactly the sort of bigotry supposedly coming from Alf Garnett and the national front?

    • If they want to segregate themselves, well it’s a free country and this would help it to remain do

      • The way things are going Minneapolis will be an experiment in creating a mini Somalia. No police followed by no businesses followed by rampant crime – more than there is already.

        There isn’t enough popcorn.

  5. Li’l Bri’han not dissapeared because of insensitivity to wheelchair users, transvestites, the educationally challenged, female reception staff, gays, people on welfare. Have I missed anything?
    Apart from viewers.
    Just a bit of blacking.

  6. I always thought that LB was having a dig at the depths to which the left had brought us.
    Paintings next.

    • I fear that has already happened on the QT. As Douglas Murray has pointed out, type the words ‘European Art’ into Google Images and observe the results. Who controls the past, controls the future. Indeed.

  7. In 1948 George Orwell was remarkably prescient: “ Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

  8. I’ve never actually seen gone with the wind. Just been to amazon and ordered it.

    Little Britain?

    The is no inducement or torture that even the most diseased mind could imagine that would make me watch that utter shite!

  9. Nit pickers find offence/racism/sexism in everything. What’s next?

    Porridge, The Good Life, Dad’s Army, To The Manor Born and Mind Your language?

    Gone with the Wind

    imo most ‘Racism” today is not racism, it’s using a difference to mock/insult same as ginger, speccy, fattie, scouseer, jock, paddy…

    What is racism is Labour MPs calling Sunak, Platel etc Uncle Toms, traitors…
    …Left dividing country, inciting violence and hate as always

    Johnson capitulating to Left msm first on XR and now implementing C-19 lockdown showed them, for all his bluster, he is weak and now they’re taking full advantage to exploit it

    • Wonderful link Pcar, thank you.

      Mr Khan says we should look at everyone ‘in the round’, well I can think of a guy who was vegetarian, teetotal
      genuinely working class, decorated private soldier, rose to lead his country democratically, keen to support Islam, non-smoker, possibly closet Gay, tremendous supporter of innovative technology, architecture and infrastructure. He lead a party that described itself as Socialist and was generally pleasant to the few women and children in his life. Sounds like quite a good guy?

      He was last filmed playfully pinching the cheeks of some young boys before coming to a well deserved sticky end.

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