John Cleese successfully fought back and now the classic (but overrated) "The Germans" episode of the classic (but overrated) sitcom Fawlty Towers† has been un-banned by the BBC (with the now-requisite "cultural warnings" for triggered and confused millennials).
† That's right. Overrated. It's less funny than A Fish Called Wanda, and "The Germans" isn't even its best episode.
This is just the standard story you see over and over. The comments in the Variety article did catch my attention.
SteveActually quite backwards. American slaves were the best treated slaves in the history of the planet. There were laws protecting slaves from starvation and mistreatment in America, unique in the planet's history. Indeed, the whole reason "redneck" and "hillbilly" are a thing is because...
June 13, 2020 at 3:36 am
You can’t compare slavery in Greece to slavery in America. For the most part, slaves in Greece lived almost just as well as their masters. Total opposite of how Africans were treated here in the US.
I'd rather be a nigger and plow ol' beckThose would be slaves happy they weren't white, for those keeping track.
Dan be a white hill-billy wid a long red neck
But what really caught my eye was this exchange:
SeattleCurmudgeonUm, did "cadavra" not see the whole original article? Liberals have created the new HUAC and blacklist. Speak out against this stuff and you're done. Dee Nguyen has been fired from The Challenge. The Federalist is compiling an ever increasing list of people fired for "un-woke" opinions. So I guess it's not the HUAC but the new HUWAC. That's progress is it? Now mass firings for supporting an ideology the people in power dislike is blacklisting people and everybody shrugs.
June 12, 2020 at 3:52 pm
Lefties are pussies. Can I say that? They don’t want to hear any opinion that differs from their own. Burning books is a tool of the left. Censorship is a leftist tool. Lynching was done by the leftist Klansmen to silence the black leaders. Pol Pot, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, ad infinitum. They all used censorship and liquidation to remove “dissent.”
Media are leftists, and so use censorship as well. Ironic, no?
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June 12, 2020 at 8:03 pm
Right, because it was liberals who created HUAC and the Blacklist, not to mention the KKK, the John Birch Society and the American Nazi Party. Were you born ignorant or is this something you work at?
What's fascist about calling out high school students for being ideologically impure and making sure only people who articulate the correct ideology are allowed entrance into places of higher learning?— S___Elliott (@S___Elliott) June 10, 2020
The same people who endless blather about "McCarthyism"‡ and release unwatchable films like Trumbo are quick to judge others for not being sufficiently ideologically in-step with the times. For this to be an attack on conservatives in 2020 is absolutely unacceptable. Don't let them get away with it.
‡ And yes, I know that Senator McCarthy had nothing to do with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
