Wasn't really referring to people disagreeing with others....but objecting to vicious social media attacks, especially on people just because they don't hold the 'correct views'. And I am especially alarmed by how quickly companies fold in contentious situations....even when it has nothing to do with them. There are actions so bad that you should lose your job, but it is getting to the point where people run too scared to speak. And surprises happen when that occurs as no one has a clear idea of how the population thinks.
I heard someone on television saying they should never ever repeat anything with Alf Garnet ever again as it is racist. I thought how could anyone miss the point so utterly as to not understand what it means to satirise an issue and the huge impact comedic satire has had on our racial outlook in this country. And don't get me started on what happens if you query anything the trans community wants taken as fact.
Absolutely, but if you are too stupid to engage with views you dislike and instead hound people for their views, then free speech was not invented for you. Please go stick your keyboard in the bin and your phone up your nose.
For me, those who get behind this cancel culture are those empowering radical right wing idiots. The ones who say 'political correctness gone mad' and 'you make everything about race'. People like Trump are a reaction to the whole 'your opinion is not valid and you are stupid' approach to debate which now dominates social media.
Well we both know our versions of good differ greatly. You see peaceful protests & I see riots. I see policemen doing their jobs and your see power mad uniforms that need defunding.
I watched it at the time it was first broadcasted....Alf Garnett was laughed at and not with. Even as a child I knew he was the stupid one. I do have to say though, that there were people who missed the point....and there are plenty of people around like that now....most of them live in the American mid-west now.
It was the same with Love Thy Neighbour...messages are delivered in a way that made people think at the time. And in Goodness, Gracious Me, the locals sometimes ran rings round the army lads. And of course, we would never cast a white man as an Indian now....why would we, when there are plenty of actors who can take the role now...at the time, they cast an experienced actor and thought nothing of it. There are things that are awful in any time, but you can't expect people in the past to have 21st century thinking. For example, beating up someone for being gay is wrong (stating the obvious), but disagreeing in principle with homosexuality in the 19th and early 20th century was not unusual,,,,so we should not judge good people who achieved great things because they expressed opinions that were commonly held 100 years ago.
I have seen serious efforts to cancel JK Rowling for having a view on womanhood which contradicts the in vogue idea of self definition defies all other rationales and any attempt to query this makes you hate trans people. The US is attempting to cancel the police when actually the issue is the 'war on crime' American voters demand and the love of guns which makes all us police scared and dangerous. A US policeman is killed every three days. Reform don't cancel. I have seen various old TV shows removed from streaming services, edited and put back. I have seen Britain relabelled as one of the most racist places, when I have been all over the world and every damn place was racist in some ways and most more racist than the UK.
, but I am very fearful of early intervention in children. It's almost like it's a fashion....children do have passing phases. In the past, you let them get on with it and waited for them to get over it (in most cases). Early intervention is basically sterilising children.
But wanting to cancel the police is not cancel culture? And wanting to cancel old Shows because you disagree with the content is not cancel culture?
