| OFAH Racist on 09:50 - Jan 20 with 3560 views | adamswan |
It’s 2018, didn’t you get the memo?! I’ll fill you in with the main point anyway.
Everything, yes, everything is racist or “problematic”. If you don’t see colour as the great MLK wanted, you are a racist for not acknowledging the hardships of others or for not offering some kind of reparation for generations gone by. TV, comedy, films are all dying because of this obsession with intersectionality. Only fools and horses is apparently racist, but Netflix champions it’s own show called, wait for it - “Dear White People”. | | |  |
| OFAH Racist on 10:16 - Jan 20 with 3524 views | Lohengrin |
Dear White People - "It follows a group of black students at a predominantly white school who face social injustice.
Sounds a hoot! 
I can't watch it anyway, it clashes with the new series of British Swingers presented by Pat Coombs and Roy Hudd. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 10:26 - Jan 20 with 3504 views | max936 |
Lots of shows back in the day were, when you watch repeats of those shows now you notice, Rising Damp especially, Blackadder, Faulty Towers, Porridge etc. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 13:11 - Jan 20 with 3389 views | Highjack |
Apart from a few throw away references to P#ki shops (which isn't done in a nasty way and happens about twice in a 25 year long series) I can't think of a single reason anyone would think this light hearted much loved comedy could be considered racist.
Only things I can think of off the top of my head is grandad innocently mixing up Sidney Poitier and Harry belafonte, and Trotters crash Turbans.
Once again, people see racism where there clearly isn't any. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 15:13 - Jan 20 with 3303 views | JimmyGilligan |
The fact that people are still talking about it nearly 40 years since the first episode and 15 years since the last episode just shows how great of a show it was. It's of its time, racism in the UK was an issue in the 80s, and the social media world of today love to jump on anything that is even slightly non PC.
I've watched every episode of OFAH hundreds of times and I have never once thought it was racist. | | | |
| OFAH Racist on 15:30 - Jan 20 with 3287 views | JackSomething |
So that esteemed website of investigative journalism the Lad Bible says 'people', but just mean a few idiots on Twitter?
Wow, it seems like those who like to cry about 'PC gone mad' are bigger snowflakes than the liberals if this enough to get their goat... | |
| You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. |
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| OFAH Racist on 15:36 - Jan 20 with 3274 views | max936 |
Welcome to the outrage age. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 15:57 - Jan 20 with 3235 views | Flashberryjack |
I remember the good old days, when you could order a black coffee without offending anyone. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:12 - Jan 20 with 3201 views | Mo_Wives |
While I would agree with what you're saying in normal circumstances and on the surface your argument seems correct. What you may need to take into account is that this could be the thin end of the wedge. If you have watched political correctness metastasis over the years you may have a different opinion. What is a 'few idiots' on twitter today will become a few idiots and their friends tomorrow, then enough people to warrant a 'conversation' on TV, then we need to ban the shows and put stricter rules in place to make sure it doesn't happen again.
You may say "Oh, that's not going to happen" and maybe you're right, but every time the PC brigade has assured us that it won't happen, they've ended up being wrong. This is the way it works, one tiny step at a time. And if you complain you're told "why are you complaining about this tiny step?...what's the harm?". And one by one the freedoms your fathers fought for have been taken from you and you didn't even put up a fight.
And remember, worst case scenarios have happened in the past. So if they were to happen again on your watch, what are you going to say to your kids when they ask "what were you doing when they took away my freedom, Daddy?". Are you going to say "I was calling the people speaking out against it snowflakes"? or are you going to lie? | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:12 - Jan 20 with 3196 views | exiledclaseboy |
There are a few references and some hoary stereotypes in the early series that they thankfully wouldn’t get away with these days but there was little malicious about it. It was of its time. But I can understand how people who have never seen it before and were brought up in an age where those phrases and stereotypes are thankfully no longer in everyday use might be a bit shocked by some of the early episodes. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:15 - Jan 20 with 3186 views | exiledclaseboy |
I’m struggling to think of a single scene in any of the Blackadders which would be considered problematic by today’s standards. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:15 - Jan 20 with 3186 views | Mo_Wives |
I agree, Easy. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:17 - Jan 20 with 3182 views | Mo_Wives |
Capt Flashheart would be hunted by the #metoo movement | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:17 - Jan 20 with 3179 views | exiledclaseboy |
Really? Gutted.  | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:18 - Jan 20 with 3177 views | Mo_Wives |
 one of us is slacking | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:19 - Jan 20 with 3173 views | exiledclaseboy |
I doubt it seeing as he’s such an obvious parody. And besides, he’d just shout “WOOF!!” and they’d all swoon at his feet. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:23 - Jan 20 with 3165 views | Mo_Wives |
He'd start a #menext movement. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:26 - Jan 20 with 3157 views | exiledclaseboy |
Now I’m thinking about I I don’t think there was a single non white character in any of the Blackadders. Shocking. Even Fawlty Towers threw in an African doctor for Basil to take the piss out of after the moose’s head fell on him. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:28 - Jan 20 with 3152 views | Mo_Wives |
Jim was speckled. Does that count? | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:29 - Jan 20 with 3148 views | exiledclaseboy |
Jim was treated terribly. He had no lines and then got shot. Everyone laughed. Except Melchett.
#birdlivesmatter | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:30 - Jan 20 with 3146 views | max936 |
You’re probably right just a generalisation sorry, Rowen Atkinson was ahead of his time and far to astute for that in fairness. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:31 - Jan 20 with 3141 views | exiledclaseboy |
And it was written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis who were about as “right on” as it comes even back then. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:34 - Jan 20 with 3128 views | Mo_Wives |
Rik off the Young Ones was the first SJW. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:36 - Jan 20 with 3121 views | exiledclaseboy |
My role model and life coach. | |
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| OFAH Racist on 16:37 - Jan 20 with 3121 views | max936 |
Indeed, without condoning those days, but it was funny to hear and see the minority coming out of the senes better than the “whites’ Rigsby is a classic example as is Alf Garnet and Love thy Neighbour, not that it makes it right of course, but you get my meaning l hope. | |
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