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Post by mids on Oct 26, 2020 17:04:51 GMT
They're called the black liberation movement now. The dicks.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 26, 2020 17:07:21 GMT
Liberation from what?
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 26, 2020 17:13:48 GMT
I suspect that black liberation will come to have the same meaning as "five finger discount" and "ad hoc reparations". In the same way that injustices seem to almost always result in the "liberation" of Nike trainers and flat screen TVs.
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Post by mids on Oct 26, 2020 17:43:52 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 26, 2020 17:51:17 GMT
I think they've taken leave of our senses.
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Post by mids on Oct 26, 2020 18:56:53 GMT
Oh. What a wonderful woman.
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 26, 2020 23:47:27 GMT
Thats not really what she said is it? She's clearly referring to th Black Lives Matter gropup, not the phrase and from their own websit: Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement Is she? Doesn’t suggest that. She is taking issue with schools even talking about black lives matter which isn’t restricted to the specific US protest group. But in a sleight or hand whenever anybody mentions “black lives matter” or even the “black lives matter” protests immediately people try to raise the specific Black Lives Matter organisation specifically as a way of derailing the conversation. |
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Post by rick49 on Oct 27, 2020 0:48:38 GMT
drew outrage from confused social media users
i presume they were college students?
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 27, 2020 7:52:14 GMT
Thats not really what she said is it? She's clearly referring to th Black Lives Matter gropup, not the phrase and from their own websit: Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement Is she? Doesn’t suggest that. She is taking issue with schools even talking about black lives matter which isn’t restricted to the specific US protest group. But in a sleight or hand whenever anybody mentions “black lives matter” or even the “black lives matter” protests immediately people try to raise the specific Black Lives Matter organisation specifically as a way of derailing the conversation. Which bit of this "“Some schools have decided to openly support the anti-capitalist Black Lives Matter group, often fully aware that they have a statutory duty to be politically impartial.” doesn't suggest she is talking about the group? She handily added the word group at the end of black lives matter just to give you a clue. It's hard to unravel, I know, and very difficult to tell if when she says " Balck lives matter group" she's referring to the group or not but I think she is. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 31, 2020 8:47:54 GMT
"CHANNEL 5 has sparked a race row after casting black actress Jodie Turner-Smith as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in a new period drama. The Queen & Slim star will play the second wife of King Henry VIII in the three-part psychological drama, Variety revealed." www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13065809/channel-5-race-row-black-actress-play-anne-boleyn/You know what? I'm entirely happy with this as a theatrical device. As a political statement, it's tedious and wanky. |
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Post by mids on Oct 31, 2020 9:07:46 GMT
Is there any reason the part has to be played by a woman?
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 31, 2020 9:41:15 GMT
Surely only the Queen can play a queen. Let's pretend is out.
Real horses not pantomime horses, that's the away forward.
Sorry let's pretend is out for acting. Fine in real life.
I'm going to run in the Derby.
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Post by mids on Oct 31, 2020 9:47:22 GMT
I'm going to audition for the part of Mary Seacole in the BBC's upcoming 10,000 part melodrama, "Mary Seacole: How I Defeated the British Empire and Saved White People From Themselves".
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Post by reverend on Oct 31, 2020 10:39:22 GMT
"CHANNEL 5 has sparked a race row after casting black actress Jodie Turner-Smith as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in a new period drama. The Queen & Slim star will play the second wife of King Henry VIII in the three-part psychological drama, Variety revealed." www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13065809/channel-5-race-row-black-actress-play-anne-boleyn/You know what? I'm entirely happy with this as a theatrical device. As a political statement, it's tedious and wanky. Hang on a minute, there was outrage the other day because Gal Gadot is being cast as Cleopatra, Scarlet Johannson gets attacked for playing a gay person, so surely this should be unnaceptable too? Or is this yet another case of "it's only a problem when your a whitey" routine? |
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Oct 31, 2020 11:04:47 GMT
Frankly, most people don't give a damn who plays Cleopatra. She could be played by a 6'5 bearded viking for all I give a sh@t Thats because it's make believe and everybody knows that.
It's only the moral twitterati who need to show their outrage but there are no virtue points in this one so we can expectsilence all round which is good.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 31, 2020 13:46:36 GMT
"CHANNEL 5 has sparked a race row after casting black actress Jodie Turner-Smith as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in a new period drama. The Queen & Slim star will play the second wife of King Henry VIII in the three-part psychological drama, Variety revealed." www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13065809/channel-5-race-row-black-actress-play-anne-boleyn/You know what? I'm entirely happy with this as a theatrical device. As a political statement, it's tedious and wanky. Hang on a minute, there was outrage the other day because Gal Gadot is being cast as Cleopatra, Scarlet Johannson gets attacked for playing a gay person, so surely this should be unnaceptable too? Or is this yet another case of "it's only a problem when your a whitey" routine? I'm not sure that this is quite comparable. I don't think the actress is going to white up and it's likely that the audience will have sufficient mental capacity to ignore her race or to see it as a cipher for her otherness. No problems with that (apart from it being trite and wanky). What sticks in the craw is shoehorning a black character into a factual event and portraying his racial identity story as something that was a facet of the story when it could not possibly have been. |
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 31, 2020 19:41:11 GMT
"CHANNEL 5 has sparked a race row after casting black actress Jodie Turner-Smith as Tudor queen Anne Boleyn in a new period drama. The Queen & Slim star will play the second wife of King Henry VIII in the three-part psychological drama, Variety revealed." www.thesun.co.uk/tv/13065809/channel-5-race-row-black-actress-play-anne-boleyn/You know what? I'm entirely happy with this as a theatrical device. As a political statement, it's tedious and wanky. Hang on a minute, there was outrage the other day because Gal Gadot is being cast as Cleopatra, Scarlet Johannson gets attacked for playing a gay person, so surely this should be unnaceptable too? Or is this yet another case of "it's only a problem when your a whitey" routine? When was Scarlett Johannson criticised for playing a gay person? When has she played a gay person? |
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Post by mids on Oct 31, 2020 19:49:50 GMT
It was a transgender role. And the role of an Asian robot.
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 31, 2020 20:14:21 GMT
It was a transgender role. And the role of an Asian robot. Oh I was thinking I had missed something. I understand the fuss about cis actors taking trans roles. Given that generally trans actors aren’t allowed to play cis roles, when cis actors also take trans roles it’s doesn’t leave many / any options for trans actors. |
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Post by mids on Oct 31, 2020 20:16:12 GMT
What actors? Cis? What's that?
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