10-06-2020, 10:50 AM
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Re: No more Little Britain
Maybe all this is very similar to a comedy from many years' ago that is also not to be found on BBC iPlayer. A very funny comedy at the time, in my opinion. Today though for PC reasons however, this humour seems to have a very different meaning. How times change:http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/tilldeathusdopart/
This can still be found on You Tube, I did not post a link to this as I have no intention whatsoever of offending anyone.
10-06-2020, 11:06 AM
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Where is this all going to end I wonder? Another one removed, not in this country but in the US:"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"."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52990714
10-06-2020, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Baz46
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I am old enough, unfortunately, to recall a London musical called The Black & White Minstrel Show. In that singers / dancers etc. used stage make-up to 'black up' to play the part, all totally innocent, nothing wrong or deliberately racist in that. However, that practice was eventually deemed racist and stopped. Anyone these days, I would have thought, can see the way that was done, yet there was no intention for it to be deliberately racist in any way. Does that make sense to anyone on here? 
My memory might be a little hazy but I don't recall any obligation to buy tickets and see the show.
Freedom of choice?
10-06-2020, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Baz46
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Maybe all this is very similar to a comedy from many years' ago that is also not to be found on BBC iPlayer. A very funny comedy at the time, in my opinion. Today though for PC reasons however, this humour seems to have a very different meaning. How times change:http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/tilldeathusdopart/
This can still be found on You Tube, I did not post a link to this as I have no intention whatsoever of offending anyone.
10-06-2020, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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The strange thing is that Alf Garnett was deliberately made the butt of the humour because of his stupid prejudices. Rather like Love Thy Neighbour another sitcom that poked fun at the racial prejudices of the white husband towards the neighbors next door.
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