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luka
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this was in response to You and normality
entertainment
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Yeah you called it 'tyranny of common sense' or something didn't you? or someone else? Stuck with me that one.
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craner
Beast of Burden
It is anti-Romantic. It brings everything down to the meanest level. Doesn't let anybody get above their station. Attacks anything pretentious. Chains everybody to their origins. Won't let anybody escape ever. It's parochial, mean, small. That's why the British excel at it.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I remain firmly convinced that textualize and educate is a better approach, unless the racism (or other bad thing) is really egregious
admittedly I don't know how exactly that would work in the case of streaming services with huge back catalogues of TV + movies going back decades
not that I'd be bemoaning the loss of whatever the American equivalent of Little Britain is
I just don't trust whoever makes these decisions to make good decisions, especially when they're clearly driven by fear and corporate directives, rather than organically evolving out of a desire to do the right thing
tbf erring on the side of not continuing to demean people is obviously good
admittedly I don't know how exactly that would work in the case of streaming services with huge back catalogues of TV + movies going back decades
not that I'd be bemoaning the loss of whatever the American equivalent of Little Britain is
I just don't trust whoever makes these decisions to make good decisions, especially when they're clearly driven by fear and corporate directives, rather than organically evolving out of a desire to do the right thing
tbf erring on the side of not continuing to demean people is obviously good
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
yeah I just think it's tough to go back and edit history
Mickey Rooney yellowface played a hideously racist bucktoothed caricature of a Japanese person - that shouldn't be something we excise from history
put a disclaimer/trigger warning before it like they do with mature content sometimes "be advised, this is racist" (but better than that obv)
let the people who made this stuff be branded by that ignominy forever
Mickey Rooney yellowface played a hideously racist bucktoothed caricature of a Japanese person - that shouldn't be something we excise from history
put a disclaimer/trigger warning before it like they do with mature content sometimes "be advised, this is racist" (but better than that obv)
let the people who made this stuff be branded by that ignominy forever
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I liked that sketch in Little Britain where the wheelchair-bound guy waits for his carer to disappear and then does a dive off the high board. Then swims back to sit in his chair, whereupon the carer returns, oblivious.
Was I laughing because I secretly think all wheelchair users are just being lazy or manipulative? I'd like to think not.
I think I was laughing at the idea that this wheelchair user would be secretly so manipulative. It seemed so incongruous, so unlikely...
I'm mentioning this sketch in particular because it's the only one I remember from the show that I really laughed at.
And now I feel like a monster.
Was I laughing because I secretly think all wheelchair users are just being lazy or manipulative? I'd like to think not.
I think I was laughing at the idea that this wheelchair user would be secretly so manipulative. It seemed so incongruous, so unlikely...
I'm mentioning this sketch in particular because it's the only one I remember from the show that I really laughed at.
And now I feel like a monster.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Used to laugh Papa Lazarou in League of Gentlemen, too. Didn't even occur to me that it would have a racial element to it. Even the fact he's a gypsy didn't seem offensive to me. Again, was this because I thought gypsies are like that? I don't think so, it was too OTT and mad. There's an element of laughing at the stereotype, at the idea that people could even think gypsies could be like that.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I'm thinking of something like the famous Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase SNL skit
or Tropic Thunder - a white actor in blackface for (if there is one) the only acceptable reason - to lampoon blackface and indirectly, white privilege
or a legitimate, brilliant satire like Four Lions
or Tropic Thunder - a white actor in blackface for (if there is one) the only acceptable reason - to lampoon blackface and indirectly, white privilege
or a legitimate, brilliant satire like Four Lions
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Jeffrey Epstein
Corpsey
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craner
Beast of Burden
I knew that was going to happen.