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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
BBC's Luther (lead character Idris Elba) is racist according to the BBC's Diversity Chief. Doesn't eat the right food and his friends have the wrong colour skin apparently.
“When [‘Luther’] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there — a really strong, Black character lead. We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, ‘OK, he doesn’t have any Black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”
If he hung out with stoners, bowled fast medium, had dreadlocks and listened to Bob Marley they would slam him for being a caricature of a "real" black man
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@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The assumption with all these woke fuckers is that you are racist unless you prove otherwise.
So certain boxes must be checked or you're suspect.
It's a fundamentally negative view of human beings.It's racism but in reverse
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@catogrande said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@mikethesnow said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@antipodean said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Our very own Massey university.
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=402040
Cat Pausé is the lead editor of Queering Fat Embodiment (Ashgate). A Fat Studies Researcher, her research focuses on the effects of spoiled identities on the health and well-being of fat individuals.
😂🤣
And people wonder why academia is routinely belittled by the public.
It’s not a job, it’s a vocation.
More like a vacation and a paid one at that 😤
As with BLM, follow the money. always follow the money..
The BBC has come under sharp criticism after details were released on how much it pays presenter June Sarpong.
Sarpong, 44, who was made an OBE for services to broadcasting earlier this month, earns £267,000 a year for working a three-day week as the corporation’s director of creative diversity, according to its annual report.
The Mail on Sunday worked out that this means she would earn £445,000 if she did the job full-time – almost £20,000 more than the BBC’s Director-General Tim Davie’s annual salary of £429,000.
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@canefan @Frank @Victor-Meldrew
I saw an hilarious clip recently (though it was a fair bit older) of Dianne Abbot defending labelling the shooting of a black activist as racist despite the incident being a black on black gangland hit gone wrong!
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@jc said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@dogmeat said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank quick give Tiddles some Jellymeat
To be fair, I think she’s had enough food.
Yes. She's no stranger to the knife and fork that's for sure.
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@catogrande said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@canefan @Frank @Victor-Meldrew
I saw an hilarious clip recently (though it was a fair bit older) of Dianne Abbot defending labelling the shooting of a black activist as racist despite the incident being a black on black gangland hit gone wrong!
She has a long history of racist comments, though to be fair, she's hardly the sharpest chisel in the tool-box.
To think she came close to being Home Secretary...
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@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
BBC's Luther (lead character Idris Elba) is racist according to the BBC's Diversity Chief. Doesn't eat the right food and his friends have the wrong colour skin apparently.
“When [‘Luther’] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there — a really strong, Black character lead. We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, ‘OK, he doesn’t have any Black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”
If he hung out with stoners, bowled fast medium, had dreadlocks and listened to Bob Marley they would slam him for being a caricature of a "real" black man
I....I'm black?
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@bones said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
BBC's Luther (lead character Idris Elba) is racist according to the BBC's Diversity Chief. Doesn't eat the right food and his friends have the wrong colour skin apparently.
“When [‘Luther’] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there — a really strong, Black character lead. We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, ‘OK, he doesn’t have any Black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”
If he hung out with stoners, bowled fast medium, had dreadlocks and listened to Bob Marley they would slam him for being a caricature of a "real" black man
I....I'm black?
Clearly not enough. You have to be the right kind of black man 🤷♂️
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@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
BBC's Luther (lead character Idris Elba) is racist according to the BBC's Diversity Chief. Doesn't eat the right food and his friends have the wrong colour skin apparently.
“When [‘Luther’] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there — a really strong, Black character lead. We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, ‘OK, he doesn’t have any Black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”
If he hung out with stoners, bowled fast medium, had dreadlocks and listened to Bob Marley they would slam him for being a caricature of a "real" black man
There'd be a few people in Africa who don't eat Caribbean food I'd reckon. I ate Caribbean food in Boston, feel so smug being partially authentic..
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@nostrildamus yeah....I think it was Elba who used to get annoyed when in the USA he'd be called "African American".
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@bones said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@nostrildamus yeah....I think it was Elba who used to get annoyed when in the USA he'd be called "African American".
I cause enough trouble calling Canadians Americans...well they are from the Americas..
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@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The assumption with all these woke fuckers is that you are racist unless you prove otherwise.
So certain boxes must be checked or you're suspect.
It's a fundamentally negative view of human beings.It's racism but in reverse
Read an interesting article by the Economist's Political editor on why Wokery is growing in elite institutions and business. His theory is it's being used to ensure only people with the right Woke credentials, generally those from well-off backgrounds, get access to the top levels and the oiks and lower classes - who are generally less Woke - are kept out.
Just a theory, but it makes a bit of sense;.
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@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
If he hung out with stoners, bowled fast medium, had dreadlocks and listened to Bob Marley they would slam him for being a caricature of a "real" black man
I guess the irony that Bob Marley's father was white and he was regarded as white when growing up, would pass them by...
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@victor-meldrew said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
The assumption with all these woke fuckers is that you are racist unless you prove otherwise.
So certain boxes must be checked or you're suspect.
It's a fundamentally negative view of human beings.It's racism but in reverse
Read an interesting article by the Economist's Political editor on why Wokery is growing in elite institutions and business. His theory is it's being used to ensure only people with the right Woke credentials, generally those from well-off backgrounds, get access to the top levels and the oiks and lower classes - who are generally less Woke - are kept out.
Just a theory, but it makes a bit of sense;.
I don't think he's far wrong
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Ivory tower socialism has morphed into a belief system (wokeism) that excludes all reference to economic reality and hence excludes lower socio-economic people. The article by the Economist's Political editor stated that most people earning under a certain amount tended to vote Republican. The Democratic Party has become the party of elites and higher income earners. One clear example of this is the Hispanic vote in states near the Mexico border turning Rebublican. This is because if the borders are porous the agricultural companies get very cheap
non-unionized labor but if the borders are secure, the big companies have to pay decent wages.
Woke theory is a very useful perspective for academics to look at society with a different lens but the virus has escaped from the lab and it has become mainstream. And as always, it is society's vulnerable that will suffer. -
@old-samurai-jack said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Ivory tower socialism has morphed into a belief system (wokeism) that excludes all reference to economic reality and hence excludes lower socio-economic people.
It also pities and patronises those lower socio-economic people while removing the life chances of their children. The former probably to make them feel less guilty about the latter. So much wasted potential
One clear example of this is the Hispanic vote in states near the Mexico border turning Rebublican. This is because if the borders are porous the agricultural companies get very cheap non-unionized labor but if the borders are secure, the big companies have to pay decent wages.
Ditto with the UK in the EU. The agricultural sector is having to pay premium wages to workers to get their fruit and crops harvested now cheap EU labour isn't available.
Woke theory is a very useful perspective for academics to look at society with a different lens but the virus has escaped from the lab and it has become mainstream. And as always, it is society's vulnerable that will suffer.
I actually think a big kick-back is underway.
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@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Our very own Massey university.
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=402040
Institute of Education
Often the worst part of any university.
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@tim said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@frank said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Our very own Massey university.
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=402040
Institute of Education
Often the worst part of any university.
Ouch.
The worst part is that there seems to be 'correct' answers to questions about ontology and epistemology (at least in my experience).
F off with the damn PC Brigade