SalvorHardin wrote: and their next stop is burning books
Is removing TV Shows and Films from streaming services the modern equivalent? But that started years ago with shows the BBC never repeat.
Thanks to Wasron,jfgw,Rhyd6,eyeball08,Wondergirly, for Donating to support the site
SalvorHardin wrote: and their next stop is burning books
Alaric wrote:SalvorHardin wrote: and their next stop is burning books
Is removing TV Shows and Films from streaming services the modern equivalent? But that started years ago with shows the BBC never repeat.
SalvorHardin wrote:neversay wrote:EDIT: I've just read about the white Oxford-educated museum curator in Hertfordshire who has been posting social media messages on what household chemicals can be thrown at statues to destroy them. I rest my case.
She's had quite a bit of blowback. Visited by the police earlier today, can't see her employer being pleased about that, and has now locked her Twitter account. She's now got a lot of people watching her for when she next screws up.
The tactics that these people have been using are now being used on them, in particular going after their livelihood and publicising their activities. It's effective and they don't like it.
Thankfully the lockdown is playing havoc with university finances. There will soon be a load of unemployed grievance studies lecturers and other low-rate academic wasters, plus bankrupt universities, which will destroy much of the social justice warrior production line.
People are also going after hypocritical woke celebrities' sponsors. Lewis Hamilton's fans are now increasingly aware that his employer (Mercedes) employed slave labour during the Second World War. Also one of his sponsors (Hugo Boss) made uniforms for the SS also using slave labour.
Kind of taints their products. There is such a thing as bad publicity!
Guido Fawkes has found a few things about The Guardian. It was founded out of slavery profits, it supported the Confederates during the American Civil War, approved of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, etc.
https://order-order.com/2020/06/10/guardian-must-fall/
anon155742 wrote:Alaric wrote:SalvorHardin wrote: and their next stop is burning books
Is removing TV Shows and Films from streaming services the modern equivalent? But that started years ago with shows the BBC never repeat.
It certainly is. There is a new bill in the Scottish parliament called the Hate Crime and Public Order bill that would make possession of offensive material a crime. So if you had these older shows on tape or DVD then you are committing a crime. Maybe its best to burn them to be safe?
https://beta.parliament.scot/bills/hate ... tland-bill
Howard wrote:Have your views become corrupted by reading the tabloids? “Social justice warriors” are just a tiny minority of students and academics.
Howard wrote:You surely can’t be serious in welcoming the “havoc” on our Universities and glorying in people becoming unemployed.
Have your views become corrupted by reading the tabloids? “Social justice warriors” are just a tiny minority of students and academics.
Criticism of universities because of the behaviour of a minority of their free thinkers is a bit like criticising all investors for being grasping and corrupt because of the behaviour of a few. And singling out the most successful investors as the most venal and unpleasant (particularly if they are successful in achieving returns over 15% per annum )
Rhyd6 wrote:Never mind burning book and removing films and TV shows just wait until the natives get restless. I forsee cities like Chester and York and others of that ilk having all their Roman Walls etc. demolished because they too were built by slave labour. Similarly all the castles in Wales should be knocked down because the Welsh were forced to build them by that nasty Edward I.
R6
neversay wrote:racism warnings on Tom & Jerry cartoons.
UncleEbenezer wrote:neversay wrote:racism warnings on Tom & Jerry cartoons.
Eh???
UncleEbenezer wrote:
Unlikely. Like every aspect of history, particularly when politicised, slavery has a very selective memory. If the slaves weren't African or the masters not European[1], nobody cares. Even modern-day slavery gets pretty limited coverage, and historic slavery is all in the past.
When did you last hear about the North African corsairs raiding southwest England for slaves? That may very well have been going on even after the UK fully outlawed slave trading. Nobody cares.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 17 guests