Shock, horror!

 

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So is this PC gone mad or is the complaint justified?

Edited March 16, 200817 yr by Jupiter9

how I'd love to see Basil Brush in the dock :lol:

 

just show the world's gone mad then

Boom Boom! :lol:

How fukking pathetic. :rofl: Shows some people really do have to much time on their hands. :lol:

:mellow:

 

thats just sad.

 

do they really think the people that watch basil brush actually understand racism?

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

Poor Basil :cry:

 

 

It does raise an interesting point though. What about the next TV comedy that makes a joke about Scots being mean with their money. Could I make a police report citing stereotypical racism? :unsure:

:manson: :manson:

 

The world runs on stereotypes. There's stereotypes in just about every TV program. Just goes to show you how PC we're turning.

In that case I'm offended by all the Irish lepricorn stereotypes and think every English person should be offended with 'English' characters all being either posh being tea of 'cor blimey govnor' types in all these American cartoons then :rolleyes:

havnt people got better things to do?..... how tf can you offend the theiving bstrds that are gypsies anyway?..:lol:

Hmmm, I dunno actually... My own pretty low opinion of Gypsies has come about mainly because of jokes or representations on film and TV about "thieving Gyppoes" or "bloody Pikeys", not because of any actual experience, good or bad.... :unsure:

 

Let's face it folks, I reckon there's a valid point to be made here.... What are our opinions of Gypsies....? What do we immediately think of when we think of Gypsies....? I bet it's nothing particularly positive is it.....? And what do we actually really know about Gypsies anyway...?

 

Our opinions are coloured by a false impression I feel, the opinions we have probably dont reflect the reality all that much... The confusion between the true Gypsies (ie, those of Romany descent) and the New Age hippy travellers (who are NOT an ethnic group as the Romanies are...) probably hasn't helped matters....

The next time Sean Tully (Anthony Cotton) comes on Coronation Street I'm totally complaining to Ofcom for portraying all gays as camp mincers. -_-

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Ha, ha, ha, ha, boom, boom!

The next time Sean Tully (Anthony Cotton) comes on Coronation Street I'm totally complaining to Ofcom for portraying all gays as camp mincers. -_-

 

Actually, you should complain about the representation of gays on TV.... Look at fukkin' "Big Brother" as well, what a collection of motley freaks they present as being representative of gay people. They resemble in no way AT ALL any of the gay people that I know....

 

:manson: :manson:

 

There's stereotypes in just about every TV program.

 

I suggest you look at films like DW Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" and how blacks were represented on that film (basically 'black-face' white actors, with ape-like movements, eating fried chicken, leering at the white female characters...), and the roles that black actors/actresses themselves played in Hollywood films in 30s, 40s, 50s (the "wide-eyed spooks", the "old mammies", "servants", etc) films before you say stuff like that mate.... Because it happens, dont make it right, simple as... Especially on a Kids' show, what the fukk is that teaching children...? As usual, it's ADULT programme-makers polluting the minds of KIDS, you should be more outraged at that tbh....

 

I dont see much difference in the extreme, ridiculous, exaggerated caricatures of black people in "Birth Of A Nation" and the "Thieving Gyppoes" portrayed in a lot of programmes and films to this day....

 

What about Scots? They are always portrayed as being violent alcoholics. I shall complain the next time an old drunk dosser with a Glasgow accent pops up on Casualty. -_-

What about Scots? They are always portrayed as being violent alcoholics. I shall complain the next time an old drunk dosser with a Glasgow accent pops up on Casualty. -_-

But even the Scots themselves use that as a stereotype! My favourite current comedian, Frankie Boyle once said 'People said that when Braveheart came out Mel Gibson playing a Scottish guy was completely unrealistic. Look at him now; an alcoholic racist"