John Cleese drops out of Cambridge Union talk

[BobKowalski]

don't be seen to be a white, middle-aged male whatever you do...

...you'll be cancelled!

Rather begs the question why there are still so many of the fuckers...

 

[BobKowalski]

See he is trending again for cancelling a talk at cambridge Uni after they banned another speaker for a hitler impression in the context of a debate they held on free speech.

He cites he has done Hitler impressions in the past and so has self blacklisted himself before the student president does.

Some think it is for pure publicity for his soon to be aired series on woke culture

Now I think he has a point on this, what is the point of a debating society that blocks anyone who may be not on message.

However he seems to also have become an moaning old git who gets angry all the time over any old shit

Discuss

Comedian gets old and becomes what he once parodied.

Trick is to die when still relevant or, if you don’t, try and keep your mouth shut.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Does this mean the Blue Moon parody from the Downfall film needs to be deleted?

Now you have mentioned it there is bound to be someone who will complain about it.




on behalf of others obviously. :-)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Now you have mentioned it there is bound to be someone who will complain about it.




on behalf of others obviously. :-)

It’s mainly for the guy who’s username is a fish.

 

[KS55]

They were indeed but it was the 'major' that came under scrutiny for his description of the Indian and West Indian cricket teams. I think they let it go without a cut but inserted that it contained language 'of the time' that might give offence.
TBF with todays lens it was very offensive.

Surely the point is that even then it was supposed to be offensive. A character saying such things was being ridiculed for antidiluvian attitudes. Today, it seems you cannot write obnoxious characters because the reader may be offended by the mere existence of such words. The epitome of the safe space nonsense.

 

[urban genie]

This is the debate if anyone wants to see Andrew graham-dixons speach that has caused this keffufle
It is about 10 mins in, the gimp in the crown is the guy who wrote the blacklist.

 

[KS55]

Seems to me like someone turned up to a serious debate and launched into a Hitler parody that wasn't appropriate so got put on a list of people not to be invited back........people are pretending he got banned for the content of his speech, which is not true at all.

Hmmm not logical.

 

[Blue Mist]

Surely the point is that even then it was supposed to be offensive. A character saying such things was being ridiculed for antidiluvian attitudes. Today, it seems you cannot write obnoxious characters because the reader may be offended by the mere existence of such words. The epitome of the safe space nonsense.

Well I for one am offended by the tone of your post.
You come on here saying words like antidiluvian. I don't even know what a diluvian is so how can I possibly be against it.
You flood the board with big words without a care for us plebs.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I'm gonna blow your shit into orbit, when i show you these Black Fella's have Whited Up to insinuate all white men are homicidal maniacs

Talking about this the other day about 80s fancy dress etc and if you went as Mr T and blacked up then you’d be racist when quiet clearly it’s a character from a show. My mate told me how he got refused entry as teen wolf because he had browned up his face too much!

 

[urban genie]

Well I for one am offended by the tone of your post.
You come on here saying words like antidiluvian. I don't even know what a diluvian is so how can I possibly be against it.
You flood the board with big words without a care for us plebs.

Smartarse ;-)